Example sentences of "ask [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) asked me about the independence of the funding council . |
| 32 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow also asked me about competitive tendering and the tendering process . |
| 33 | You asked me about the stance we were to adopt . |
| 34 | She asked me about him , and I must have said it was a boy , and he was resting . |
| 35 | She asked me about my love-life ! |
| 36 | What I was gon na say , you 're asking me , you asked me , you 're asking me you asked me about |
| 37 | Only I 've , somebody asked me about one with erm S C B , B grade one or whatever |
| 38 | erm so no certainly they asked me about it and so on but I think that rather like their food forum they might like to get a communications forum going erm because they 've been thinking about having a Business Club and various other things because they 're involved with the Management Programme and all sorts of things and they maybe going to do some training for heads and people like that |
| 39 | F , why did put F oh you asked me about F did n't you ? what did you put , did you put F in the end ? |
| 40 | I mean you asked me about formal education , and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 41 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ , but indeed it could be applied in many places . |
| 42 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said , ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ . |
| 43 | I mean you asked me about formal education and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 44 | Sharon asked me over a slightly crackly line . |
| 45 | ‘ Do you really wonder , ’ he asked me at an embassy function in west Beirut , ‘ why we wo n't claim compensation ? |
| 46 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 47 | Ten years later however the BBC asked me at very short notice to compile a programme to celebrate the Queen Mother 's eighty-fifth birthday . |
| 48 | Boycs asked me at Headingley if I had a big car . |
| 49 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 50 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 51 | He took on the work , he says , ‘ because Warren asked me to . |
| 52 | ‘ Why , you asked me to — ’ began Evelyn . |
| 53 | The following week the US Tour moved to Los Angeles for the LA Open , and Frank asked me to caddie for him there . |
| 54 | He asked me to caddie for him for the rest of the year . |
| 55 | He asked me to his room . |
| 56 | Your father asked me to — to keep an eye out for you . |
| 57 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 58 | Despite taking home around half his £300-a-week mining wage , Martin said : ‘ I would n't go back to Silverhill now if they asked me to . |
| 59 | After my return to England I was able to continue my interest in Burma 's future , for when General Aung San and his colleagues came to London for consultations with the British Government , Mr Attlee asked me to 10 Downing Street to introduce the various members to him . |
| 60 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |