Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] ask him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 2 | He 'd remember anything if she asked him to . |
| 3 | Present Arsenal chairman Denis Hill-Wood says : ‘ If we asked him after a game what he thought of so-and-so 's performance he would say , ‘ Ask me on Monday . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Because I asked him about it this morning , when we were both up here , sitting on that bank . |
| 5 | When I ask him for telephone numbers of the people who know him best , he gives me the numbers of Deneuve , Shrimpton and Helvin before Jack Nicholson , Brian Clarke and Julian Schnabel . |
| 6 | When I asked him for his reaction , he sat hunched behind a table in his little palace , his head hanging down , his half-moon spectacles on the end of his nose . |
| 7 | But when I asked him for permission he just agreed . |
| 8 | In Oxford , the voice of the gnomic Professor Sammy Finer , a declared political agnostic , rose a full octave when I asked him about it : ‘ It simply is n't true any longer that merit will out . |
| 9 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 10 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 11 | ‘ When I asked him about it he told me : ‘ Leave me alone — I 'm working . ’ |
| 12 | When I asked him about sheets , he said , I buy them new , tell me when you want some more . |
| 13 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 14 | When I asked him about his nose he actually growled at me . |
| 15 | When you ask him for leave to serve him on this mission he will welcome it as the solution to his anxieties , for even if you are only gone from Kinsai for a time , it will seem to him that you do not mean to impose upon his favour . ’ |
| 16 | He seemed distracted when she asked him about Island Trading 's reliability . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd be privileged to help , ’ he said , when we asked him about the display . |