Example sentences of "[noun] he asked me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The day before I was due to go back to England he asked me to marry him . |
| 2 | A friend of the Websters ' son ( who was in the Middle East ) took to visiting the house rather often , and one evening he asked me to go with him to the cinema in Bletchley . |
| 3 | He put it all into practice with The Clash When he got Joe Strummer into The Clash he asked me what I thought of him . |
| 4 | This letter is going to be devoted to my affairs in connection with Edward … the other day he asked me if I thought you would care to go for a walk into the country somewhere . |
| 5 | And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me . |
| 6 | As we walked back to the dispensary he asked me , almost casually , yet in a way trying to find out how much I knew , ‘ Tell me , what 's the extent of your knowledge of polio ? ’ |
| 7 | When I submitted our first Report to Mr Baker he asked me how he should explain what was meant by Standard English to the education journalists . |
| 8 | ‘ Within four minutes he asked me out to dinner . |
| 9 | The reason he asked me out , dear Leo , was because he had overheard some of the girls from the agency talking about the money Aunt Jane left me — was n't it wonderful ? |
| 10 | Last thing he asked me was where he might find Florrie Shaw . |
| 11 | At the end he asked me about myself , curtly , as if it was all rather a bore . |
| 12 | Towards the end of our conversation he asked me what use I would make of documented evidence that the Japs in Burma had a far-reaching plan to destroy the Buddhist system of monasteries and monks . |
| 13 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |