Example sentences of "asked [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Philip said he had asked Jim , only that morning . |
| 2 | he said you should have asked Jim |
| 3 | Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide . |
| 4 | And why oh why had she asked Sarah to come ? |
| 5 | ‘ We have now asked Reed to suspend the proposed changes until we have had a meeting with them on 22nd April . |
| 6 | Asked Gary I would think they 're taking on extra staff |
| 7 | ‘ So , why does Ian hate Canon Wheeler ? ’ she asked experimentally , remembering the occasion on which she had asked Ian that same question . |
| 8 | Kanemaru , it was said , had asked Watanabe to seek the assistance of Susumu Ishii , the late leader of the Inagawa-kai crime syndicate , in putting an end to a harassment campaign against Takeshita by an obscure right-wing group , Nihon Kominto . |
| 9 | Sources close to the Atlanta superstars have asked NME to reassure fans that the album will not be ‘ mostly acoustic ’ and that a forthcoming out-take album will include ‘ Tighten Up ’ , a cover of the Archie Bell original and not Booker T & The MGs , as stated . |
| 10 | Her address was less than a mile from the shop , but Folly had asked Lisa to keep it until last in the route she had mapped out . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The van was in Belmodes and I 'd asked Charley not to park it there , but he always did . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I should have asked Signor Candiano to warn you that the buses get a little crowded . ’ |
| 15 | PC Fraser said he again had asked Sutherland whether there was anyone in the house and Sutherland had replied that there was not . |
| 16 | Dorothea Gilberd had already asked Toby Freely to take over her class in English . |
| 17 | Now I have I 've asked Dennis and Chris 's insisted that he deals with it so Chris has taken it over , and Dennis is getting back to Chris with the stockpiles of how much is ten weeks old , eleven you know so so you |
| 18 | She had asked Dionne the American ex-pat writer who never stopped talking , Jamie the drag queen who never stopped talking . |
| 19 | We 've asked Ken Muir , of the famous fruit nursery , to select eight varieties of strawberry for the test . |
| 20 | The leader of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers has asked Mrs. Thatcher to make a public statement in support of saving coal mines after she spoke to the Energy Minister about such a move . |
| 21 | He would also have known that Palmerston , having let it be known that he had asked Scott to submit a new design , was very unlikely to change his mind , and it was perhaps to give the appearance of some purpose to the delegation that he and Tite made their request for another competition . |
| 22 | The provost and council of St. Andrews , who were never slow to seek patronage of any type , had asked Scott to obtain the placement of a supervisor in the list of candidates for a collectorship . |
| 23 | Just for the sake of neatness , I 'd asked Miss Hinkle to set Sam Thompson to work finding out about Mrs. Porter and her big black car when I excused myself early in the interview with her . |
| 24 | In the second letter you mentioned that you had asked Wyre Borough for further details of ownership of the site etc . |
| 25 | Parker told him that the State Department had asked Mexico , but there had been no reply as yet . |
| 26 | I 've just asked Sue , I 'm sure you wrote this with the full support of your staff ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I 've asked Dana to — ’ |
| 29 | Dana 's shrill voice made Claudia jump away from Roman as if she were guilty of something , but Roman had only been about to say he had asked Dana to model for him in order to get to know her better . |
| 30 | Could she have been right when she had thought , almost a week ago , that Roman was about to tell her he had asked Dana to marry him ? |