Example sentences of "and [pers pn] asked me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I saw my bank manager at the end of last year and she asked me why I was spending so much on food . |
| 2 | They 'd put her into a side ward and removed the mirrors and she asked me to peek under the cloth and tell her what she looked like . |
| 3 | And she asked me , ‘ Would that be management ? ’ ’ |
| 4 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
| 5 | The woman was in her early forties and she asked me for £5 straight away . |
| 6 | She 'd seen her brother 's and she wanted to see if they all looked like that and she asked me so I showed her mine , but it was only if she 'd show me hers and she did as well . ’ |
| 7 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 8 | We met that evening and she asked me straight out if I 'd be interested in an exclusive story : a scandal affecting a government minister . |
| 9 | But for some reason she knew he was my brother , and she asked me how he was keeping these days . ’ |
| 10 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 11 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 12 | Her first commission came about quite casually : ‘ My husband and I had gone to stay with friends and they asked me to do a charcoal drawing of their Dachshund , Rosy . |
| 13 | I got involved because his family live some way away and they asked me if I could make the arrangements , sort things out until they got there . |
| 14 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 15 | I went to the hospital and they asked me how I done it . |
| 16 | I got there and they asked me why I did n't get there sooner . |
| 17 | Yes , and they asked me what I was laughing at ; and of course I could n't say their son-in-law was so ugly , so I said : |
| 18 | A group of friends was going to St Servan near St Malo and they asked me to join them . |
| 19 | I rang , I rang , I went to the dole office , when I went down I ask them as soon as I left Ann said the same , go down the dole when you ask about your poll tax , they said to me we ca n't give you any id , er anything , you have to phone them , council building site , I phone the council building and they asked me , that 's why I sent all your wage slips in for |
| 20 | On Wednesday last I had an interview with the Archbishop and he asked me to leave Kidlington and go to a vacant parish in Birmingham ( Rednal ) where a friend of mine had died recently . |
| 21 | I met an old Jew there who had left Prague thirty years before and he asked me if there were still whores in Wenceslas Square ? |
| 22 | I was down at Wentworth and I saw Dicky Powell , the caddie-master , and he asked me who I was working for . |
| 23 | In went the putt and he asked me to keep the ball because he wanted to take it home and get it mounted instead of throwing it to the crowd . |
| 24 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 25 | menu with a flourish And he asked me |
| 26 | She hesitated for a moment , then said , ‘ I met Sid Watkins in Berkeley today and he asked me if I would like to go to the Licensed Victuallers Dinner at the Princes Hotel with him tonight . |
| 27 | ‘ He said you were bringing her some thirst quenchers , and he asked me to run down and collect them . |
| 28 | I met Charlie , and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service . |
| 29 | ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’ |
| 30 | And he asked me a lot of very pertinent questions which seemed to me more than idle curiosity . |