Example sentences of "she ask [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that was true , would I approve an auction of my personal belongings , jewellery , dishes , everything and just stand aside helpless ? ’ she asked during the joint Fox and Sky News interview in New York . |
| 2 | ‘ Hmm — where 's Azor , by the way ? ’ she asked off the top of her head . |
| 3 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 4 | ‘ When are we going to bury him ? ’ she asked into the silence . |
| 5 | ‘ Have you seen the furry liquid ? ’ she asked without looking round . |
| 6 | " You been drinking Malmsey wine by any chance ? " she asked without thinking . |
| 7 | She asked without looking at him , ‘ Were you unhappy ’ to be back with fashionable people ? |
| 8 | ‘ Can you do something for me ? ’ she asked without preamble , and went on to explain quickly what it was she wanted done . |
| 9 | ‘ How 's your suturing ? ’ she asked without preamble . |
| 10 | Each night she spoke to a waiter to order a meal ; each morning she asked for boiled rather than scrambled eggs for breakfast . |
| 11 | She said she asked for a lift for herself and a male friend as a joke . |
| 12 | The incident delayed the Wardair Airbus on its flight to Toronto by three hours 11 minutes and she asked for compensation of more than £1,500 . |
| 13 | In all the time she was there she asked for only two things , and in both cases I had to disappoint her . |
| 14 | I forgot to give it to Madge when she asked for the keys . |
| 15 | It would be in the nature of a test for her : if , as she claimed , she looked after her nephew as her own then she would not query the lack of financial support ; if she asked for it then it would be easier to force her to part with the boy . |
| 16 | She asked for , and was given , the recipe before going home . |
| 17 | She was lifted out of her perch above the engine and made for the customs shed where she asked for a mirror so that she could restore order to her wrecked coiffure before she went into Paris . |
| 18 | Then I paid the woman the five shillings she asked for her hospitality and went on my way . |
| 19 | ‘ But why ca n't I join Brownies , Mummy ? ’ she asked for the twentieth time . |
| 20 | She asked for a sign ; some proof to verify her experience . |
| 21 | The next thing she asked for was a job to do for the Lord . |
| 22 | She asked for 54 similar offences to be taken into consideration . |
| 23 | She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan . |
| 24 | Six months later , when she asked for it to be given to Arrowe Park Hospital , which saved her son 's life , she was told the money was in a ‘ suspense account ’ . |
| 25 | She asked for the duty sergeant . |
| 26 | Mrs Frizzell was immediately suspicious To get so much sympathy and then to get a handout as soon as she asked for it , was unnerving . |
| 27 | Yet still she asked for news of the Emma Bates . |
| 28 | When she asked for Sergeant MacDonald there was a pause , then the man on the other end of the line told her to wait . |
| 29 | A Royal source said : ‘ There was a gap in her diary and she asked for it to be filled . |
| 30 | The parents would never give Joanne anything ( from a list of non-essentials ) that she asked for . |