Example sentences of "i ask him " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Lapp shows me his reindeer skin boots , and shrugs when I ask him why the toes curl up . |
| 2 | I ask him if he 'll tell me the story again , but he just looks over at me and shakes his head . |
| 3 | I ask him about his days as a commodities broker on Wall Street — Koons spent his days as a struggling artist working on Wall Street rather than starving in a garret — and he directed his answer to Ilona , because the anecdote shows the charming , apple-pie side of his nature . |
| 4 | ‘ But is n't it the case , ’ I ask him , ‘ that while people are piling into the cinemas to see the worst exports of Hollywood , they are also piling in to see our own films , such as Alan Parker 's The Commitments , which has after all just won the Bafta award for best film . ’ |
| 5 | I ask him his name again . |
| 6 | The first person I see at Birkdale is Gary player , and I ask him if he 's fixed up with a caddie . |
| 7 | He says he is n't , so I ask him if I can caddie for him . |
| 8 | So I ask him what gives ? |
| 9 | I ask him if he 'll take me over to the Lennox 's in his car . |
| 10 | ‘ Fat Watt speaks of them when I ask him . ’ |
| 11 | Often I ask him to remember a birthday , an outing or a holiday , and we start to build the image from there . |
| 12 | Driver Palmer is , of course , totally right , but he just seems blank when I ask him to answer my ultimate query abut America and rock . |
| 13 | At one point I ask him if travelling through Africa for Pole to Pole was disturbing . |
| 14 | So where do they lurk , I ask him , the neuroses , the insecurities ? |
| 15 | If I ask him nicely , he will take a message for me , I am sure . ’ |
| 16 | I ask him stupid things like , ‘ Where have you been for the past six months ? ’ |
| 17 | During the afternoon drinking in Barcelona , I ask him to tell me a joke . |
| 18 | ‘ But the thing about Robbo is that he is a determined beggar and I know that if I ask him , he will say OK if he 's ready . |
| 19 | That hand is proffered for a farewell handshake , and this time I ask him not to squeeze so hard . |
| 20 | I ask him if he 's as raggamuffin as his appearance suggests . |
| 21 | I phoned him yesterday , and er , I ask him whether it was right that er what I suspected , that the er vets , the private vets , there with a union , you will not get the R S P C A , they work on there on behalf . |
| 22 | Strange he should just happen to mention these artistic luminaries.A more direct hint comes when I ask him if he has influenced Government policy . |
| 23 | Because as I ask him some question about women , wine or wit Dudley Moore is busy chewing his nails until they might well bleed , it does n't seem too rude to mention the ends of his fingertips . |
| 24 | As he gets out of his chair , I ask him if it 's true what they say about short men . |
| 25 | I ask him if I could describe him as a lucky little wanker who became very rich and famous through doing very little apart from being his baffled , fitful , daft self . |
| 26 | BECAUSE I AM INTERVIEWING DUDLEY MOORE to talk about his piano playing and his tour of the country with the BBC Concert Orchestra and his jazz trio , I ask him a question about his piano playing . |
| 27 | Instead , I ask him , just how good a pianist is he ? |
| 28 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE is leaving the restaurant , I ask him whether he feels that he 's now best known in Britain for chasing chickens . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |