Example sentences of "[noun sg] who ask him " in BNC.

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1 Honest enquirers , like the lawyer who asked him about the greatest commandment , were impressed and attracted by his Bible-based teaching ( though , as with the rich young ruler , they did not all respond to it positively ) .
2 Kevin John Porter , 28 , was stopped by police in Commercial Street , Darlington , last summer after drinking with a friend who asked him to fill up the car .
3 But then life is invariably ultimately hard on someone with pretensions beyond their talents and a style best encapsulated in the story told about the boy in his Taunton constituency who asked him what the time was .
4 And Jesus , in his conversation with the Samaritan woman who asked him where true worship happened , answered that " God is spirit and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth , " for " the time will come when neither here nor in Jerusalem will men worship " .
5 He opened the door to find a woman who asked him to speak to McAteer 's wife , Philomena , who was in his garden .
6 She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal .
7 Anthony Fox , whose elderly parents were shot dead in their Moy home by loyalist gunmen last year , says he was relaxing on a sun-kissed balcony in Mallorca when he was approached by a man who asked him to contact MI5 in London .
8 He tried to duck under the ropes to come over to us , but gets stopped by a security man who asks him what he 's playing at .
9 When Edwin Chadwick , the great English public health expert , was visiting Paris , he met the Emperor who asked him what he thought of the improvements in Paris , to which he replied : ‘ Sir , it was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble .
10 Before leaving school , he was interviewed by a careers officer who asked him : ‘ Do you want a job in a factory ? ’
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