Example sentences of "ask [pron] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She asked me to give it to the lady who had been in court with her child , and to ask if you would take care of her till she could come for her . ’ |
| 2 | Then he asked me to kiss him on the lips and we kissed . |
| 3 | He gave the impression of telling the detectives what had happened and asking them to believe it on the authority of his charm and personality . |
| 4 | He pulled a face and said less colloquially : ‘ I mean , he 'll be asking someone to accompany him to the police station . ’ |
| 5 | Thank you gentlemen , I will now close the m meeting by asking you to join me in the the erm |
| 6 | This I handed to a nurse , asking her to give it to the doctor before he saw Nigel . |
| 7 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 8 | In Gregory 's account , Chlodomer , before setting off to Vézeronce , asked his half-brother , Theuderic , to accompany him , and the latter agreed ; but when Childebert and Chlothar asked him to join them at the time of their later campaign against the Burgundian kingdom , he refused . |
| 9 | Explain that no one is to see what they have written on the paper and then ask them to pin it on the back of the next guest to arrive . |
| 10 | And Dr Carrington had particularly asked me to disconnect him from the ventilator . |
| 11 | Mr Davies ' letter concluded : ‘ You have asked us to notify you of the potential implications in relation to costs . |
| 12 | They 've asked us to provide them with the finance one container , that 's five hundred pound , plus two hundred pound transport , which will be matched by the community council if we do it . |
| 13 | Later , changing into his dinner jacket in the executive cloakroom , Matthew wished he had thought to ask someone to accompany him to the chairman 's party . |
| 14 | " We were going to ask you to fix it in the pot so it 'll stand up , " I said quickly . |
| 15 | So an important strategy for helping the learner is occasionally to list , at the end of the piece or work you are marking , all the errors the pupil has made , writing them correctly and clearly , and to ask him to study them in the way the Basic spelling strategy " B " suggests ( page 11 ) . |
| 16 | I might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station . |
| 17 | ‘ But why did you ask him to meet you in the garden instead of in the house ? ’ |