Example sentences of "ask [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I asked Mum to help me . |
| 2 | As I left I asked Marcus to remove his dark glasses so I could look at his face . |
| 3 | First he asked Germaine to play something by Ravel for him , presumably to glean an impression of her personality . |
| 4 | She also asked Pamela to try again during the next week to draw up a list of ways she would like her parents to change . |
| 5 | He asked permission to leave it for her the following day . |
| 6 | On the plea that she feared others might intrude , she asked permission to lock the door and promptly did so from the outside . |
| 7 | He asked permission to evacuate the whole of the Woevre Plain , now menaced by the rapid German advance on the Meuse Highlands . |
| 8 | The evil spirits asked permission to go into the pigs that were nearby . |
| 9 | She asked permission to scatter her husband 's ashes on the ballroom floor . ’ |
| 10 | He simply asked permission to visit the pope to consult him about his troubles . |
| 11 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 12 | He asked permission to build a retirement home for him and his 63-year-old wife Mary on land two miles from his home near Ponteland . |
| 13 | He asked permission to bring his family downstairs . |
| 14 | One day I asked permission to photograph the largest house in Goa . |
| 15 | Force 136 asked permission to arm the AFO . |
| 16 | In 1929 he asked permission to introduce the semi-circle at Highbury , but was refused . |
| 17 | The chairman , Gubby Allen , asked Washbrook to leave the room , then argued fiercely with the new young captain , Peter May . |
| 18 | They were having trouble with the close-up , until DiCillo finally asked Brad to give him ‘ a deer caught in a car 's headlights ’ . |
| 19 | If you ever asked Ian to keep a debate going in committee ( while the front bench caught up ) he would do so to order and with a style 1 have never seen equalled . |
| 20 | She never asked Melanie to come and listen to them and , on these occasions , Melanie , alone with the live dog and the painted one in the kitchen , felt that nobody in all the world cared whether she lived or died . |
| 21 | In as tactful a way as she could contrive she asked Shildon to hurry up with what he wanted to say . |
| 22 | On Nov. 3 Azerbaijan 's Procurator General Ikhtiyar Shirinov asked parliament to annul a decision which guaranteed Mutalibov 's security . |
| 23 | To do that , on May 18th the prime minister , Leonid Kuchma , asked parliament to grant him a range of extraordinary powers : to rule the economy by decree , control the central bank and the state privatisation body and have jurisdiction over the president 's satraps in the regions . |
| 24 | ‘ I asked Sarah to leave Hassan and come back to me . |
| 25 | While their romance cooled-off , Charles still asked Sarah to attend his 30th birthday party at Buckingham Palace in November 1978 . |
| 26 | ‘ I once asked Judd to explain things to me . |
| 27 | ‘ It would be better if I asked Marie-Christine to point the way , Uncle Gaston , if that 's what you wish . ’ |
| 28 | We asked readers to put nine top intensive conditioners to the test . |
| 29 | Chris Stocks was set up by a friend when The Sun newspaper asked readers to send in photographs of Chris Evans lookalikes . |
| 30 | You know there was a brother of the Order who so contrived her departure and asked Aldhelm to help him . |