Example sentences of "ask me the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a friend asked me the car 's name I answered at once — Anastasia Fyodorovna Romanova , Princess of all the Russias . |
| 2 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 3 | People often asked me the time just to hear my voice so they could proclaim my gender to their friends . |
| 4 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
| 5 | Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England . |
| 6 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 7 | My grandson asked me the other morning , when was I gon na die ? |
| 8 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 9 | It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level . |
| 10 | I , he asked me the one , you know , we were on about this morning , the only one we looked at , fifty miles an hour and he asked me that one and I knew it . |
| 11 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 12 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 13 | A young man of shaven pate , E-X-P-L-O-I-T-E-D tattooed on his forehead , approaches me brandishing a splashing can of Carlsberg Special Brew and asking me the time . |
| 14 | I 'm my own man and that 's very important in these times , even if you have n't had the problems I 've had , and you have n't , because that 's perfectly obvious , you 're sitting there and asking me the questions . |
| 15 | Jean was asking me the other day , and really , you 've told me next to nothing . |
| 16 | ‘ Ask me the question ! |
| 17 | ‘ But ask me the same question tomorrow and I could give a whole litany of things . |
| 18 | ‘ Ask me tomorrow — ask me the day after — ask me anytime , ’ said the seal . |
| 19 | At er well this week you sort of look back and say yeah but erm in about ten years time if you come and ask me the same question I would be able be in a better position to give you an answer . |
| 20 | Does your wife do that or does somebody else do that , why not just ask me the question who does the gardening |
| 21 | Ask me the time I was up at ? |
| 22 | On the album I make the comment that somebody had asked me the same question and I said , ‘ Yep , my left hand 's doing good , right hand 's doing alright , my mind 's as sharp as a tack . |
| 23 | I replied that of course such decisions were entirely his prerogative , then I fell into a musing mood and sought to recall something Rosa had asked me the previous week about English social customs . |
| 24 | a number of my staff have repeatedly asked me the question , what is a project engineer ? |
| 25 | So I was n't bitter when I put myself into the hands of the surgeon and that splendid bank nurse was so thoughtful as to ask me the question . |
| 26 | Chatterton unbent enough to ask me the question . |
| 27 | The thing about the business miles , you were right to ask me the business miles |
| 28 | But he did n't ask me the questions . |