Example sentences of "[noun sg] ask [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 2 | One journalist asked him about " The Love Life of J. Alfred Prufrock " and he replied gravely , " I 'm afraid that J. Alfred Prufrock did n't have much of a love life " . |
| 3 | But others criticised her for interrupting too often and looking unprofessional as she slumped in her seat asking him about his O level exam achievements . |
| 4 | We wrote to the AAIB asking them about this , but they never answered . |
| 5 | He 's got a nerve asking you to , well letting you do this . |
| 6 | Or the more punchy ‘ How would you like to buy some shares in Gibbs Building Contractors — ‘ Do n't pick your contractor/ By throwing a dice/ Bring GIBBS into the game/ Ask us for a price ’ . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You didna ask me for evidence , John , you sought my best judgement , and you have it . |
| 8 | You should keep all your P11 forms and pay records for at least 3 years after the end of the tax year to which they relate , or longer if the Inland Revenue asks you to . |
| 9 | These were both common complaints : that other girls or boys did not have the nerve to ask you to your face if you were pregnant or not , and that " you find out who your real friends are " . |
| 10 | I 've a good mind to ask him for it after all . " |
| 11 | ‘ The fool asked me about Beth . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Do Black Magic people in England attack you ? ’ a Roscommon chip shop boy asked me in awe . |
| 13 | He was surprised when the girl asked him for threepence . |
| 14 | If , for example , your boss asked you for ideas but each time you produced one he totally disagreed with it and rejected it out of hand then , assuming you found this unpleasant , your behaviour of putting forward ideas has been punished . |
| 15 | Suppose your boss asks you for suggestions about how a particular problem could be solved and you immediately respond with some ideas . |
| 16 | ‘ Did you ever take drugs ? ’ the senator asked me after a long silence . |
| 17 | Erm now one of the things that the tenants ' action group asked us about initially when they asked us to get in involved in the , in the advice sessions in the flats , was whether or not the tenants would be able to claim additional compensation , over and above what was already being offered . |
| 18 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 19 | No , she 's said , she , she ai n't got the courage to ask her for more money , so I said well just give it a few more weeks and then Anne and Brian 's turn up , if it do n't get any better then , I 'm afraid you got Anne and Brian 's . |
| 20 | He wondered how he had found sufficient courage to ask her to the Edwardian Ball , and then remembered that it was her air of calm dignity which had made him anxious to take her to impress his parents . |
| 21 | And the world , if it flunks its own test in the Gulf , will have no right to ask it to . |
| 22 | Of course if you were my master — I do n't mean like Dr Grossman but my real , still-undiscovered master — you would have a right to ask anything of me ; but that can not be . |
| 23 | It was further submitted by Mr. Coghlan that it is important in this field that the law should be clear and simple : it is for a coroner to ask himself on any given state of fact whether he would describe the death as unnatural or not . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're prepared to go , I suppose ? ’ the magistrate asked him with a studied casualness Zen found rather insulting . |
| 25 | ‘ Do you , ’ a friend asked her in 1980 , ‘ hate all institutions ? ’ |
| 26 | My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue . |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about future numbers . |
| 28 | During the last Employment Question Time , the hon. Gentleman asked me about job clubs in his constituency , and I have written to him about the matter . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about the degree of support from medical staff . |
| 30 | The devil asked him to but Christ refused . ’ |