Example sentences of "[pron] had ask [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had asked Chris to be President of the Friends before the first meeting . |
| 2 | I had to ask Mum to lend me the money — it was the most humiliating moment of my life . |
| 3 | Last Christmas , I had to ask Goram to nominate his Book of the Year . |
| 4 | She had asked William about getting Aggie a cat but he had no idea where a tomcat could be found on the quick and he shook his head . |
| 5 | In fact , that afternoon , Miranda had been worried by the swift rise in share price ; she had asked Adam whether he thought anyone might be buying with a view to a takeover bid . |
| 6 | ‘ So , why does Ian hate Canon Wheeler ? ’ she asked experimentally , remembering the occasion on which she had asked Ian that same question . |
| 7 | They were bare and shabby and if it had not been for the pretty yellow cloths she had made for the tables and the yellow and orange cushions she had covered for the chairs and the blue vase full of roses she had asked Maria to place on the chest of drawers , then they would have been dismal indeed . |
| 8 | She had asked Elizabeth and Dr Wyn to come in for a drink that evening . |
| 9 | ‘ How d' you ride on these things ? ’ she had asked Cy as , pulling up , he shook her hand in congratulation . |
| 10 | Although they had quarrelled so bitterly Mrs Gotobed had still loved Mr Evans , deep down in her heart , and the message she had asked Carrie to give him would show him this plain , . |
| 11 | She had asked Tim for his advice and thoughts on the matter , since Tim was undergoing a good education . |
| 12 | She had asked Mr Hedley to look in the police car on the verge . |
| 13 | She had asked Dionne the American ex-pat writer who never stopped talking , Jamie the drag queen who never stopped talking . |
| 14 | But her annoyance returned when Jenny came in a little while later and told her that she had asked Matthew to dinner . |
| 15 | ‘ What does it mean ? ’ she had asked Henry , a day or so after Donald 's death , ‘ what does it mean ? ’ |
| 16 | She had asked Stephen a couple of weeks ago if Edward was coming and he had replied : ‘ Over my dead body . ’ |
| 17 | She hated the dresses her mother made her wear , sombre unattractive things in rough heavy wool or dull summer cotton ; and she had asked Leo to go shopping with her and help her choose . |
| 18 | It was a pleasant evening but when Anne wrote to Joe about it , telling him that she had asked Helen and Tony to come , he replied immediately , warning her not to rush things . |
| 19 | and she had to ask Reception for another vase because the first one was full up . |
| 20 | the army intelligence officer who had asked Beattie on the morning of his arrest for information on crimes in south-east Antrim had not even mentioned the one of which he was now accused . |
| 21 | He was the one who had asked Werewolf if he played in a band , and the one I 'd seen being ticked off by Cawthorne . |
| 22 | In the second letter you mentioned that you had asked Wyre Borough for further details of ownership of the site etc . |
| 23 | I think if you had asked Freud what 's the minimum number numerically for one of , for the Bond Freud Crowds , Freud would have thought for a bit and I think he would have said three . |
| 24 | Deprived of six senior defenders , they had to ask Nigel Clough to play in central defence and winger Gary Crosby at right-back . |
| 25 | The first details of the annexation were broadcast by the PFKG on Aug. 8 when it announced that it had asked Iraq to approve a " complete full unity merger between Kuwait and Iraq , so that Saddam Hussein will be our leader " . |
| 26 | First , however , he had to ask Isobel if he could alter the lighting in the garage , so that he could see better at night . |
| 27 | ‘ The chief agent was awoken at six in the morning ; he had to ask John Wakeham , you know how good John is at this sort of thing , to quit his room at Topps Hotel ( he wo n't stay in the Grand for all the tea in China and who shall blame him ? ) and pop down to Kemp Town and arrange bail . |
| 28 | Earl brought in a yellow legal pad with a number of acronyms on it in boxes , and North put it down on the table ; at that point , his secure telephone went off , and he had to ask Miller to leave . |
| 29 | But Philip said he had asked Jim , only that morning . |
| 30 | The ( ethnic Tamil ) Minister of Tourism and Rural Development , S. Thondaman , referring to a " last " government peace initiative , said on Sept. 26 that he had asked LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran to specify a basis for the resumption of talks . |