Example sentences of "[conj] they ask me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelly Johnson had just left and so they asked me to join . |
| 2 | And they ask me for hardly any rent , which is the other nice thing about it . ’ |
| 3 | The only time I do that is when I 'm talking to journalists and they ask me questions about the past . |
| 4 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 5 | And they ask me , Liz , they say . |
| 6 | They do not understand the basis of the argument and they ask me to explain the Government 's position . |
| 7 | And they ask me , Liz , they say . |
| 8 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 9 | Her first commission came about quite casually : ‘ My husband and I had gone to stay with friends and they asked me to do a charcoal drawing of their Dachshund , Rosy . |
| 10 | I got involved because his family live some way away and they asked me if I could make the arrangements , sort things out until they got there . |
| 11 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 12 | I went to the hospital and they asked me how I done it . |
| 13 | I got there and they asked me why I did n't get there sooner . |
| 14 | Yes , and they asked me what I was laughing at ; and of course I could n't say their son-in-law was so ugly , so I said : |
| 15 | A group of friends was going to St Servan near St Malo and they asked me to join them . |
| 16 | I rang , I rang , I went to the dole office , when I went down I ask them as soon as I left Ann said the same , go down the dole when you ask about your poll tax , they said to me we ca n't give you any id , er anything , you have to phone them , council building site , I phone the council building and they asked me , that 's why I sent all your wage slips in for |
| 17 | Despite taking home around half his £300-a-week mining wage , Martin said : ‘ I would n't go back to Silverhill now if they asked me to . |
| 18 | If they asked me to say thank you very much at the end of a shit interview I would n't , and if they did n't like it , I 'd probably leave . |
| 19 | I should n't care to work for them even if they asked me . ’ |
| 20 | My reply to these people , if they asked me what happened at the branch meeting I say , do you want to know what happened in the branch meeting ? |
| 21 | After initial doubts about whether he would accept selection to run for Britain in the European Cup in Rome in two weeks ' time , Robb said he would now ‘ probably go if they asked me . ’ |
| 22 | the fact that she 's , she 's intelligent as well erm she , you know , she 's gon na s she knew that I did n't know what I was talking about so she said right you look , yo you look er you , you ask them about this , this , this and this and they might say this to you , so I knew what , if they asked me , I knew what I was talking about rather than |
| 23 | If they ask me Sir , they 're just trying to make a monkey out of you . |
| 24 | I hope that , if they ask me , they will let me take in alphabetical chunks at a time , as the full whack weighs about a stone ! ! ! |
| 25 | if they ask me , I 'm not doing it , I 'm sorry . |
| 26 | Er he 's gone to Barnsley , cos they asked me to ask for this , gone to Barnsley . |
| 27 | Now then part of it is they ask me You do n't have to , but they ask me to ask people to sign erm to say It 's just to say that you do n't mind your conversation being used . |
| 28 | Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook . |
| 29 | I 'll do it because they ask me to , but I do n't feel , like , ‘ Oh God , I 'm a big star signing autographs . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Well , if it had n't been for me , you would n't have had it , because they asked me your character . |