Example sentences of "[pron] had ask [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On another occasion , I had asked a group to work out the ‘ best buy ’ between a 25 cl can of wine at £1.19 and a 150 cl bottle at £4.59 . |
| 2 | I had asked the plumber to come and had reminded him several times and no doubt he would come in the end . |
| 3 | I had asked the Englishman , who was tilting his clean-cut face to the sun , if I could use some of his sun cream , seizing the opportunity to talk about my robbery . |
| 4 | And I had to ask a lad stood at front , I said can you ask him to stop at this stop please . |
| 5 | I had to ask a librarian and I managed to use them , but it is an advantage to know how to use them yourself . |
| 6 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 7 | I had to ask the nurse to take him away … ’ |
| 8 | I had to ask the man at the desk which room the reception was in ; he mentioned the two famous names , and then I remembered , Oh yes , the phoney meeting . |
| 9 | The porter called her madam because she had asked the way to the private wing . |
| 10 | She had asked the seneschal where the ideas for these odd games came from . |
| 11 | I could n't help remembering : the second time we met she had asked the party at large , ‘ Are there any twin comets ? , |
| 12 | Then Ruth saw that he deliberately gave the man who had asked the question only half the bacon ration he was entitled to . |
| 13 | It was Lewis who had asked the question , and Ashenden turned in his chair to face him : ‘ Are you suggesting I was n't there ? ’ |
| 14 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 15 | Later RSPCA Chief Insp John Paul , who had asked the court for £600 costs against Chapman , defended the society 's actions . |
| 16 | The justices found that there had been a breach of the peace before the police arrived , because the mother-in-law of the person who had asked the defendant to leave the swings had been ‘ alarmed ’ by the defendant 's conduct . |
| 17 | One had asked a waiter to pour cream on one of them . |
| 18 | We had to ask the bridesmaids not to pirouette in the aisle . |
| 19 | We may well wonder whether the ambiguity in the word servus does not hide a fundamental ambiguity running right through the period ; and if we had asked the abbot of Saint-Germain , he might have answered that the servitude of serf and slave alike was a small matter compared with man 's servitude , since the Fall , to the devil ; and that all men were slaves . |
| 20 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 21 | They said that they had asked the Treasury to give " careful consideration " to the various fiscal measures recommended by the committee . |
| 22 | They had asked the council to fix it — that was eighteen months ago . |
| 23 | In the same year Darwin set sail on the Beagle taking with him Lyell 's " Principles " and read it so much that he had to ask the ship 's carpenter to rebind it in wood . |
| 24 | At the end of 1866 he had asked the Governors for a testimonial , as he was applying for a post in the Midlands : |
| 25 | Mr Templeton said he had asked the man if there was anyone in the building . |
| 26 | ‘ He had asked the country for a mandate for Tariff Reform , this had been refused , and the honourable thing would be for him to resign at once . ’ |
| 27 | He had asked the driver to wait two minutes whilst he saw whether or not I was through customs and in the foyer . |
| 28 | He had asked the court for a ruling after Judge Robert Lymbery and Judge Kenneth Machin excluded the public from pre-trial hearings in September . |
| 29 | He had asked the questions at every interrogation but always from behind the sanctuary of a powerful table lamp . |
| 30 | He had asked the hotel for some black coffee before they set off and the management , knowing he was a doctor and that their sudden departure had something to do with his wife 's health , had been accommodating . |