Example sentences of "asked [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 2 | They asked me a few questions and withdrew to grunt amongst themselves , then came back and welcomed me as one of them . |
| 3 | Then the King asked me a large number of questions . |
| 4 | My grandson asked me the other morning , when was I gon na die ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
| 8 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 9 | The members of the household , once they realised that their watches and jewellery were safe , ‘ asked them a thousand questions ’ about America , and , as the children 's governess later wrote ‘ they behaved with great civility ’ . |
| 10 | He asked them a few times . |
| 11 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 12 | I abruptly asked them the same question I had of Benjamin . |
| 13 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 14 | In his absence , I afterwards asked them the same questions , and they were able to explain quite adequately . |
| 15 | Well that was the question that Mr asked you a few minutes ago was n't it , er Mr ? |
| 16 | This what I asked you the other week . |
| 17 | He 's done it , asked you The Big One , will you marry him ? |
| 18 | very settled in the library er she went to the interview er and she said she 'd er remembered everything that the teacher had told them about how to present themselves at interviews and she went down and the er , the librarian says well , asked her a few questions and he says |
| 19 | She enjoyed hearing about the governess 's letters which would never be received and translations of East End rhyming slang , but did n't think he actually listened to her , he often asked her the same questions . |
| 20 | Perhaps if she asked him a simple , straightforward question she would receive a simple , straightforward answer in return . |
| 21 | Listening to the conversation in which Midnight had no part , she felt a sudden pity for him which increased the sense of gratitude already there , and was slightly surprised when the foppish Randall asked him a direct question : |
| 22 | Abrams , who said he had never heard of such a thing before , asked him no more about them . |
| 23 | I only asked him the other day |
| 24 | It was only when the high priest asked him the direct question : |
| 25 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman nodded when I asked him the same question earlier , but he has not said how he will ensure fairness between schools and therefore , no discrimination against students with special needs . |
| 26 | While he waited he asked us a few basic and searching questions about our discovery . |