Example sentences of "ask she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he was still hungry , he decided against asking her for second helpings now that he had forgotten to use her new name at the very first test . |
| 2 | But she was gone before I could finish asking her for help , borne away by three identically dressed musketeers , waving her whip in the air , and lost in the crowds again . |
| 3 | Confuse a waitress by asking her for a Big Mac and chips ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | BLANKED a complimentary letter from the ‘ Proud To Be Plain Club ’ ( ‘ we believe a woman can look average and human in public and still play a role in society ’ ) asking her to be club mascot . |
| 6 | I sent it inside an envelope addressed to Ann in the flat below in Russell Square , asking her to post it on to wherever Alison was living . |
| 7 | ‘ We have n't seen the Queen since the garden party , ’ said Brian , ‘ but I do n't suppose you 'll be asking her to dinner . ’ |
| 8 | He was asking her to be his mistress . |
| 9 | But it was said and the barrier was back between them , built of suspicions neither of them dared bring to the surface … though Trent had intended asking her about her grandfather . |
| 10 | For almost the whole flight I kept asking her about life in England . |
| 11 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 12 | The young man was asking her about the room , about his chances of getting it , she suddenly heard . |
| 13 | Enya is extraordinarily beautiful , but there seems little point in asking her about love affairs anymore . |
| 14 | But no , he was asking her about Mathilde , about Katherine . |
| 15 | He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance . |
| 16 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | He did n't look around when she came in , but asked her over the sizzling of bacon whether she wanted anything to drink . |
| 20 | Barbara once asked her over the phone . |
| 21 | was saying the overall winner was Lucinda Murray on Just Jeremy , and er he first asked her over er a glass of champagne I believe , celebrating her twenty-fifth birthday with a party on Friday , er was that beneficial to success ? |
| 22 | In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened , he asked her on no account to tell his father , the prime minister , but to arrange payments on the instalment plan of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables . |
| 23 | Linda asked her on a sudden impulse . |
| 24 | A man in rags asked her for the price of a cup of tea . |
| 25 | Her mother so seldom asked her for anything , she realised with a jolt . |
| 26 | My old gran did n't bother with recipes and if anybody asked her for one she 'd say ‘ Oh , I do n't bother wi' them things . |
| 27 | Félicie waited with him for news of the birth , and during the anxious time Modi asked her for advice , knowing that Jeanne was too preoccupied in looking after him and coping with her mother 's often unhelpful interference to look after a new baby alone . |
| 28 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 29 | He then asked her for another £46,500 , claiming he needed the money to secure the bonds , and paid that , too , into his account . |
| 30 | They asked her for ‘ pen portraits ’ of the seven children who were pupils at the school . |