Example sentences of "ask [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you really wonder , ’ he asked me at an embassy function in west Beirut , ‘ why we wo n't claim compensation ? |
| 2 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Boycs asked me at Headingley if I had a big car . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | They told you when you asked them at the club . |
| 7 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 8 | It is boring , often done in locations where it is difficult to avoid ‘ bosses ’ , it affords only a limited range of ‘ bluffs ’ or easing techniques , and is looked down upon by regular policemen and women , a view unintentionally reinforced by those sergeants who apologize to regulars when asking them at parade to do sanger duty . |
| 9 | Lupus feared his anger and advised others not to provoke it ( " I consider it dangerous to obstruct the king 's orders " ) ; felt hurt when Charles very obviously " does n't care about the things that matter to me " ; appreciated Charles 's personally " asking me at Bourges not long ago what I felt about Predestination " ; and was well aware that Charles " has a face that he puts on when he wants to be charming " . |
| 10 | One of the more experienced printers remembers Laura asking him at this time to ‘ have a go ’ at producing a pattern she liked . |
| 11 | Sensibly , but with some sensitivity , her boss made the same points to Muriel as he had made in his reference , asking her at the same time if these conflicts had ever arisen out of the office with family friends or neighbours . |
| 12 | ( Indeed , the reactions to the fact of the questionnaire varied from , on the one hand , the view that only HMI should authorise such an enquiry , to the view that asking anything at all was an unwarranted interference with personal liberty . |
| 13 | Mrs Cullam did n't even look at him and when he asked her at what time her husband had come home on Friday night she said laconically , ‘ Quarter past eleven . ’ |
| 14 | Pat was having an affair — and in a crowded restaurant , he asked her at the top of the sentorian Williams voice : ‘ Well tell us about this man you 're having the affair with then . ’ |
| 15 | Eva also insisted on Dad improving the service : she got him to consult esoteric library books early in the morning before work and asked him at breakfast , in a voice which must once have enquired of Charlie if he 'd done his technical-drawing homework , ‘ And what did you learn this morning ? ’ |
| 16 | Theda asked him at length . |
| 17 | I doubt if at present you can have it reregistered on an age related basis , but when you write to DVLC ask them at the same time . |
| 18 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 19 | ‘ Or perhaps I should not have asked you at all . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Ask anybody at this club just what his value is to Arsenal . |
| 21 | When an experienced teacher is planning a learning experience , she asks herself at least three questions : |
| 22 | Yeah , I could n't even fight the thought that she 'd asked him at no what I mean . |
| 23 | Erm , no yo I 've , er I 've asked him at the parents ' evening what he expected us to do for economics , right ? |
| 24 | I 'm sorry to have to ask you at a time like this — ’ |
| 25 | And the best load of hay — he 'd come out and ask me at the finish . |
| 26 | I feel that the Angel Gabriel will ask me at the pearly gates : Ilsa , did you ever make a good Yorkshire pudding ? |
| 27 | Dr Kent , I do n't know whether I should ask them at all . |
| 28 | Could you ask them at the meeting next week if they would like us on an outing to Denman because they 're , a lot of them do n't really know what Denman is do they ? |
| 29 | Oh well , now I do n't ask him at night because Is that i is we hardly have any sleep . |
| 30 | I think , does n't she ask her at one point about Grace Poole ? |