Example sentences of "asked [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | People often asked me the time just to hear my voice so they could proclaim my gender to their friends . |
| 5 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 6 | When a friend asked me the car 's name I answered at once — Anastasia Fyodorovna Romanova , Princess of all the Russias . |
| 7 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |
| 8 | Adrian asked them the way to Woodbrook , then came back and told me that there was a ruined castle behind the shop . |
| 9 | One of the men was nervous , so the guard asked them the number of the car they were driving . |
| 10 | If those , all of those contract temps are regarded as full time people it looks like full time people are working overtime , which is why I asked you the question yesterday erm what 's the overtime bill for quotes alone . |
| 11 | Er , now , I asked you the table set have n't I ? |
| 12 | His father Jim , wrote the script after Jacob , then aged six , asked him the question : ‘ Dad , did Peter Pan ever grow up ? ’ |