Example sentences of "[be] ask [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're asking me for secrets of the confessional . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 3 | Webb is that what you 're asking me for , some webbing ? |
| 4 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
| 5 | As I understand it Chair , what you 're saying is , that there are , at three there is a , a request for an exclusion of press photographers , but the convenience of press photography we 're saying that instead of taking immediately so that we 'd have to call them back here for the even later , we 're asking you for it to be taken at the end with the rest of exclusion |
| 6 | Eventually when all of the information is gathered in , we 're asking you to quite simply reject this . |
| 7 | ‘ You are asking me for money , ’ she said , shocked . |
| 8 | ‘ You are asking me to be clairvoyant as well as indiscreet . |
| 9 | We are asking you for your protection , everything is well documented and clear . |
| 10 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 11 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been asking me for weeks if I 'm jealous ! |
| 13 | First of all , many people have been asking me on this programme in the past what credentials you people on the Council have for setting a budget . |
| 14 | Ask yourself , ‘ What precisely is it I wish my child to say and/or do when I am asking him/her to be good , polite , helpful , kind ? ’ ( or any of those other vague goals parents set for their bemused offspring ) . |
| 15 | I am asking you to be my wife . ’ |
| 16 | Once again I am asking you to ‘ plug ’ it in your classes and if there is still some reluctance on the part of class members , perhaps the proceeds of social fund raising could be used to buy membership for some members of the class ; at the present time membership is just as important as society funds . |
| 17 | ‘ I told you , I am asking you to be my grandmother 's companion . ’ |
| 18 | The reason I 'm asking you about that is erm I had er I had when I had my own business I was approached and we 've got an estate agent in the Hamilton called |
| 19 | now Mr what I 'm asking you about is the space see how I 'm speaking out so try and speak up like this so the jury can hear . |
| 20 | When I was in police custody the doctor came in to see me and gave me some tablets and I 'm asking you for some now . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ No , all I 'm asking you for is a few moments of Master Lorimer 's time . |
| 22 | ‘ Because I 'm asking you to . ’ |
| 23 | Well that 's why I 'm asking you to , to , to draw this up . |
| 24 | And this shows if you give the book out at the end and then what 'll the guy say you wan na give it out at the beginning , sow the seed that this is the only way you work , you 're now thinking well this guy 's gon na be asking me for recommendations at some stage during the hour together |
| 25 | ‘ We have n't seen the Queen since the garden party , ’ said Brian , ‘ but I do n't suppose you 'll be asking her to dinner . ’ |
| 26 | I believe Mr Wood 'll be asking you about that . |
| 27 | And I certainly would n't be asking you for favours . ’ |
| 28 | I just wondered what those contexts and you will be bound to be asked it in council if it 's not asked now . |
| 29 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |
| 30 | You 'd hurt me so badly — there I was , head over heels in love with you , and you were asking me to be your mistress . ’ |