Example sentences of "ask him [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was attacked after asking him to move from the touchline during an amateur game at Gillingham , Kent . |
| 2 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 3 | The group also wrote to US President Carter asking him to intervene in the dispute . |
| 4 | Dutta said jewel merchant Guppy asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian company . |
| 5 | Ishan Dutta said Darius Guppy , best man to Princess Diana 's brother Charles in 1989 , phoned him in Bombay and asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian jewel company . |
| 6 | Before he left , the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline asked him to report on the treatment of convicts in Van Dieman 's Land . |
| 7 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 8 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 9 | I asked him to go to the shed and take all my kites away and burn them , which he duly did , in a hollow now called Kite Pyre Dell . |
| 10 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |
| 11 | I also asked him to look at the Twyford Down plan with a view to having a tunnel under the Down rather than a cutting . |
| 12 | Mr McNally then asked him to indicate to the court any evidence which arose out of the two interviews held yesterday . |
| 13 | I then asked him to comment on the extent to which recommendations to the Senior Management Team contained in the report appeared to have been implemented . |
| 14 | Before his second visit , in November 1978 , Brezinski asked him to come to the White House to meet Carter , Secretary of state Cyrus Vance , and Stansfield Turner , the director of the CIA . |
| 15 | I had one job to do first thing in the morning — to ring Sir Geoffrey Gillington and ask him to arrange for the manager of the Upper Thames Street branch of the bank to receive Miss Macdonald when she called , and to keep her letter for me . |
| 16 | ‘ Tell it — I mean , ask him to walk towards the Ship . |
| 17 | She would complete the packing , telephone her office to say she was on her way , ring Cobalt and ask him to look after the murder case and the inquiry into the provenance of the Durances . |
| 18 | I ask him to come to the bathroom and help me tend my hand . |
| 19 | ‘ Then ask him to come to the phone . ’ |
| 20 | Before the trial , the Sunday Times had just asked him to pose for the fashion pages of their magazine , wearing tough-guy togs . |
| 21 | In an argument no doubt intended to be attractive to Manchester 's merchants and employers — local abolitionists had specifically asked him to write on the impolicy of slavery and the slave trade — he declared that freedom produced cheaper labour than slavery . |
| 22 | They 've asked him to look at the case because it makes a mockery of justice . |
| 23 | Having looked at the growing success of the Editing for Industry awards and noted the fact that Alan Peaford was due to step down after a three-year stint in the chair , I decided to ask him to continue in the post for my year of office . |
| 24 | Following a meeting this morning at the Department of Energy , may I ask him to arrange for the Secretary of State to make a statement answering the anger in Coventry , not just about the way in which the pit was closed and the loss of jobs , but the belief that the closure took place to mothball 40 million tonnes of medium sulphur content coal so that , were the Conservatives to be re-elected and the pits privatised , Daw Mill could take that coal out in a UDM pit ? |