Example sentences of "were ask me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were asking me to snub my family . ’ |
| 2 | Now I was at a wedding a little while back and all they were asking me was are you gon na be the next one ? |
| 3 | She was there with me and she knew these people were asking me . |
| 4 | Luke , I thought — I genuinely thought that was what you were asking me . ’ |
| 5 | You 'd hurt me so badly — there I was , head over heels in love with you , and you were asking me to be your mistress . ’ |
| 6 | her in , her the launderette were asking me er she was , she were on about I , ai n't you got a job yet ? |
| 7 | Teresa 's on about erm a she were asking me if anybody 'd be interested into going on to higher er education after this ? |
| 8 | And see they were asking me what I was gon na use yesterday and I said oh I do n't know I said , I have n't got a clue . |
| 9 | I assume you were asking me if I got any remarks last |
| 10 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |
| 11 | If anyone were to ask me who , above all , was responsible for the moral collapse which characterised the 1960s and 1970s , I would unhesitatingly name Sir Hugh Carleton-Greene … . |