Example sentences of "ask them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What are they looking for ? ’ he asked them without any preliminary greeting . |
| 2 | When they arrived at Auckland Alexander asked them for the silver and his Presence was such that they did not dare to tell him that they had no silver , so Joan said that it was ‘ in the bank ’ . |
| 3 | Then went to the Citizen 's Advice Bureau ( CAB ) at Wembley , as my husband had suggested , and asked them for information about how to join a union . |
| 4 | To embroider the sampler , we turned to some multiple agencies and asked them for their recommendations of good value on a £1,000 booking for four people . |
| 5 | In the nineteenth century , however , those who conducted the research did not really believe that their subjects would tell them the truth reliably if they asked them for information directly , and so they drew inferences about people 's ideas , religious beliefs , political commitments and so on from the type of literature they had on their shelf or the pictures they had on their walls . |
| 6 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 7 | They were always touching each other ; they fucked the lecturers and asked them for money for drugs . |
| 8 | She asked them for identification . |
| 9 | Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered . |
| 10 | Johnson did not drink her proffered dram , but Boswell and the two guides did , and when she asked them for snuff , her great luxury , they had none , but gave her money instead . |
| 11 | Mainly under the influence of Pietro Bembo , the codifier of the Tuscan speech as the literary language of Italy in his Prose della Volgar Lingua ( 1525 ) , there had been an extraordinary revival of interest in Petrarch and the patrons of the frottola-composers , such as the Mantuan Duchess Isabella d'Este , asked them for settings of Petrarch 's sonnets and strophic canzoni . |
| 12 | I moved some girls into the middle and asked them for their guesses . |
| 13 | Erm he wrote to Photo Gallery and asked them for er an exhibition date and they gave him one in nineteen ninety . |
| 14 | And we had people coming back after they 'd actually done their run out there saying , Do you want any help with I mean that 's what we asked them for |
| 15 | When we asked them for details about their visit they were very coy . |
| 16 | Anthony Eden , the Foreign Secretary , asked them to what extent the full internationalization of civil aviation was possible . |
| 17 | For the most part , the fast men were used in short bursts to conserve their strength and responded well to this ; but when the occasion demanded , as on the final day at Lord 's in 1963 , they could keep going for hour after hour just because the captain asked them to . |
| 18 | Jane , as the nearest thing to a next-door neighbour , asked them to drinks that weekend . |
| 19 | But he asked them to ‘ see it from a different viewpoint . |
| 20 | ‘ Members of this tribe were by no means ready to work for any European who asked them to ’ , wrote Elspeth Huxley ; ‘ They were very particular and only entered the service of men whom they liked . ’ |
| 21 | As their appointment was n't until the afternoon , Sukey Benedict asked them to lunch beforehand . |
| 22 | We then asked them to already booked . |
| 23 | If you asked them to he would do it . |
| 24 | It 's nothing to do with T N T or anything er at all , it 's just er they that organization has wro written to a number of large companies and asked them to er record er , so many , er tapes so they can analyse it . |
| 25 | We asked them to the meeting and we look forward to listening to you later on in the agenda . |
| 26 | Madame raised her crackling voice from the large brown desk where she presided in the hall beyond , and asked them with unusual largesse if they would like some refreshment . |
| 27 | They told you when you asked them at the club . |
| 28 | Old hands from the music business — usually loquacious if invited to reminisce — were struck by collective amnesia when I asked them about Dury . |
| 29 | Addressing questions to a class of primary school children in a rural school at the time of the Passover , I asked them about places in the Bible where there were sheep . |
| 30 | When I asked them about it they all said : ‘ Oh , you 've had cats all your life , you wo n't get it ’ ’ . |