Example sentences of "ask you [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I asked you through the Medau News last year to all help and make our fund raising this year a really great success and when you know that the figure at the time of going to press is over £2,600 you will all be as pleased as our Treasurer is . |
2 | ‘ I asked you to be honest so I 've no right to complain because you 've spelt it all out . |
3 | ‘ No one asked you to be , ’ she said stiffly , watching him slide his body into the chair and dig into his plate of food with relish . |
4 | ‘ Nobody asked you to . ’ |
5 | But it was there when my heart softened on witnessing the courtesy you showed my housekeeper , the smile you had for her ; there when I asked you to dinner with no certainty why I 'd done so , other than that it most assuredly was n't on account of any interview . |
6 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
7 | He asked you for life , and you gave it to him — |
8 | Which was good news for START ( Skin Treatment and Research Trust ) as we also asked you for a donation to help START in their research into replacement skin for series skin problems . |
9 | If the Hapsburgs occupied Paris and a couple of Austrian soldiers asked you for information about a Frenchman , would you tell them ? ’ |
10 | If , for example , your boss asked you for ideas but each time you produced one he totally disagreed with it and rejected it out of hand then , assuming you found this unpleasant , your behaviour of putting forward ideas has been punished . |
11 | In July we asked you for your original ideas on alternative uses for our free filter matting — and offered a prize of a ‘ lifetime 's supply ’ of Crystal Clear airline . |
12 | We asked you for a letter written by a father to his son admitting that he has some embarrassing or socially undesirable condition . |
13 | We asked you for a diatribe in verse from Neil Kinnock against the Tory press , the short-sighted public , or anyone or anything else he might be against at the moment . |
14 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
15 | I expect he asked you for money . |
16 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
17 | No I asked you for formally for permission to go ahead and go ahead with the . |
18 | I asked you for your one pound eighty five and you said no . |
19 | But you said you you when I asked you about the clinic on Street you thou you thought had heard of it . |
20 | He er he asked you about er wh who was it ? |
21 | ‘ You remember me , I asked you about the meters … well my car was just here on this corner and … ’ |
22 | ‘ Yesterday , when I asked you about animal rights , you said you were out of it and clammed up good and proper . |
23 | But if I can just go back to where we were talking earlier erm and I asked you about anybody that you may be able to refer me on |
24 | cos you could , I mean if if she asked you about it , you know , you could just say well honestly I 'm quite , I did n't think you were the kind of person who 'd go for I know , I know that thing is I mean I can see , I can see that she 's going for him because |
25 | If someone asked you in French you might have to think about what tasse du thé means before you visualised a cup of tea and said ‘ Oui , s'il vous plait ’ . |
26 | The ‘ Yes to All ’ button stops Windows from asking you about every file . |
27 | I believe Mr Wood 'll be asking you about that . |
28 | Oh yes , I was asking you about John . ’ |
29 | The reason I 'm asking you about that is erm I had er I had when I had my own business I was approached and we 've got an estate agent in the Hamilton called |
30 | now Mr what I 'm asking you about is the space see how I 'm speaking out so try and speak up like this so the jury can hear . |