Example sentences of "ask [pers pn] [to-vb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Well , she waylaid me as I was leaving after seeing your Toby , and asked me to give you a message . |
| 2 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 3 | You asked me to give you a ring like . ’ |
| 4 | You asked me to give you a note on my interest in bibliometric research on the Journal . |
| 5 | At our last meeting , you asked me to give you a reminder regarding the above . |
| 6 | ‘ Professor MacFee was in the other day — asked me to order him a copy . |
| 7 | I think I left the Bench at least with an impression that they had someone very special to deal with , I was , of course , all the time praying that no one for the police would ask for his Conduct Sheet , which they overlooked after making a dutiful response to the Bench , and I hurried away to be met outside the Court by Stewart , who at once asked me to lend him a pound . |
| 8 | The first morning we met you asked me to show you the way to the matriculation class , putting a very strong stress on the first syllable . |
| 9 | My son , then aged 10 , asked me to knit him a sweater with a large single motif on it . |
| 10 | Write a letter of enquiry to : asking them to send you a brochure and price list giving details of their goods . |
| 11 | Or failing the gift of a sum in cash , I am asking you to make it a business transaction , to buy what you clearly must need and what we can no longer afford to keep . |
| 12 | ( For instance , one veteran listed a pair of jogging shoes left behind on the islands among his painful memories : another recalled a letter he wrote to his girlfriend from the trenches , asking her to tell me the truth , if she did n't love me any more or was going out with another boy ’ . ) ’ |
| 13 | There are many who arrive actually on their 60th birthday , asking us to find them a job because they have no intention of retiring . |
| 14 | Then he pulled her towards him and asked her to give him a kiss , but she pulled away quickly when she saw Mum 's scowl . |
| 15 | Juliet was remembering Celia 's frightened voice as she asked her to tell her the blood results before anyone else . |
| 16 | He beat his drum under her window and she asked him to give her a rose . |
| 17 | St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push . |
| 18 | Once when I was in design and technology class , I asked him to give me a screw and he said , ‘ See me after school and I 'll give you one . ’ |
| 19 | I asked him to give me a list of potentially commercial sites in the city , based on his experience of sales and demands . |
| 20 | He said that there is regular demand for shots of Sydney , and therefore it would be worth my while making a detour to extend my portfolio , I asked him to give me a list of potentially commercial sites in the city , based on his experience of sales and of demands . |
| 21 | I asked him to give me an image for Love , something I could see , |
| 22 | I wrote to Mr Wood last week and asked him to give you a job on the farm . |
| 23 | I asked him to describe what the atmosphere in the dressing room is like with the rest of the team . |
| 24 | She asked him to teach her the trick , but he said that she was not ready yet . |
| 25 | I asked him to bring me a sandwich and a glass of wine , and still went on reading Jane Eyre . |
| 26 | ‘ So Angy asked him to pass her a knife while she was cooking something . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But actually , being in that situation really helped to develop my ear , because a guy would come for a lesson and ask me to show him a lick from some song or other , which kind of put me on the spot ! |
| 28 | Three of them stay upstairs with Crilly , while the other three ask me to show them the bedroom . |
| 29 | ‘ The computers as usual , I suppose , but you 'd better ring my solicitors and ask them to cable you the cash . |
| 30 | Ask them to write me a reference so I got form to fill in to send off for something but I 've got ta write something . |