Example sentences of "[v-ing] to ask [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope she ai n't going to ask me a question — you know , like where summat is , like the ladies or summat , cos to tell the truth I do n't really know my way round here . |
| 2 | ‘ I was going to ask you a small favour , ’ said Mr Chan . |
| 3 | Now I am going to ask you a simple question and you are going to give me a simple answer . ’ |
| 4 | Now , Emma , listen , I 'm going to ask you a question . |
| 5 | To check his wandering thoughts he started to ask her to resume her labours elsewhere and finish the surgery when he had completed his own tasks in it — Only to find that she was hopping gently from foot to foot , and was bursting to ask him a question . |