Example sentences of "ask [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were treated well and they asked nothing more of life . |
| 2 | So erm then er oh he asked me other questions . |
| 3 | Marion asked me other day what we were saving them for , I said well we saved them oh I remember ! |
| 4 | They asked me personal questions that I could not even repeat here today . |
| 5 | After I had produced talks and features for a year or so , Jack Radford asked me one day if I would like to take charge of a music show . |
| 6 | They asked me first of all why I paint on paper and I 'm using older to paint on . |
| 7 | Er , not in the decision , I I spoke to Mr and he asked me certain questions . |
| 8 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 9 | ‘ Mrs McDougall asked me that , ’ I said . |
| 10 | ‘ Ernest asked me that . |
| 11 | ‘ You asked me that . |
| 12 | ‘ The police asked me that , too , and honestly , I just ca n't remember . |
| 13 | I am so glad that the hon. Member for Derby , North asked me that question — |
| 14 | The police asked me that as well . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm glad you asked me that . ’ |
| 16 | I , he asked me the one , you know , we were on about this morning , the only one we looked at , fifty miles an hour and he asked me that one and I knew it . |
| 17 | I think if you went and saw our own doctors a lot of our fears would be allayed because most of the young doctors would n't , would recommend to you , my own doctor asked me all the questions and different things and then he says he 's a young doctor , he says if I were a women and if I 'd answered all the questions as you did , I would go on H R T. |
| 18 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 19 | ‘ May I ask you what you asked me last week ? |
| 20 | A sentence such as ( 8 ) below could refer to the past ( How could you have expected me to know the answers to those questions which you asked me last week ? ) , the present ( Why are you asking me ? |
| 21 | Well I said to her er your mum asked me last night . |
| 22 | My old , dear and intimate friend Princess Marie Louise , who furnishing the Queen 's Dolls ' House , asked me some months ago to let twelve poems of mine be copied small to form one volume in the library ; and I selected the twelve shortest and simplest and least likely to fatigue the attention of dolls or the illustrious House of Hanover . ’ |
| 23 | The British official behind his high desk asked me numerous questions which I did n't understand . |
| 24 | Asquith asked them two questions . |
| 25 | He asked them this question , do you believe that I am able to do this ? |
| 26 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
| 27 | He asked my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health whether he was prepared to measure the success by the simple test of whether the trusts did more or less work for the national health service . |
| 28 | This cost-effective nature of a scholarship was a matter I had been asked to justify when I first asked my new assistant chief constable about the potential of postgraduate research as an ‘ observing participator ’ . |
| 29 | I was teaching English in the boys ' grammar school in the town where we lived then , and a teacher in the infant school asked my little daughter , ‘ What does your Mummy teach at the College ? ’ and she replied , ‘ She teaches boys . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ What did you say ? ’ asked my scandalised father . |