Example sentences of "asking i [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the day I have games was asking me to do fifty pick-ups run around the circuit five hundred |
| 2 | Similarly Fawn Hall , asked by North to alter memoranda to conceal his work for the contras , remembered feeling uneasy : ‘ but I believe in Colonel North , and I know that there must have been a good reason why he was asking me to do this , and I — I did as I was told . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Listen , if I was n't just John Dyson , but The John Dyson , people would n't even waste their time asking me to do ten-guinea talks for the Overseas Service — they 'd know I 'd be fully occupied doing pieces for Playboy and Esquire at a thousand dollars a time , and going on television at a hundred guineas an appearance . |
| 4 | She came to me , asking me to make sure her life was pleasant ! |
| 5 | East Northants district council wrote asking me to make that specific point . |
| 6 | ‘ Are you asking me to forget this — this hour in the bush ? ’ |