Example sentences of "ask [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother .
2 Friday twenty eighth of June passes without incident apart from a quick visit from the local constabulary asking us to consider what a dangerous stunt it is that we are trying to pull .
3 THE teenage lover of the man accused of carrying out a vicious sex attack on a coast to coast rambler told yesterday how he asked her to give him a false alibi .
4 When it seemed to be over , I went next door and called Fielding and asked him to give me an incredible amount of money .
5 Telephone the AA and ask them to tell you the best route .
6 I 'll go through it again once we 've seen the film , and ask you to give me the main points that came out of the film .
7 Can I thank Jim very much indeed for attending our conference this morning and ask him to give us a civic welcome .
8 do you , do , do you have a gun ? , button one for yes and button two for no well I 'm not going to ask you to identify yourselves the three of you
9 Can we now proceed to welcome the Deputy Mayor to ask him to give us a civic welcome .
10 If , for example , a Russian artist is giving you one of his canvases , you would be wise to ask him to write you a certifying document first .
11 When dinner was over he liked Diana enough to ask her to show him the 115-foot-long picture gallery which then housed one of the finest private collections of art in Europe .
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