Example sentences of "when i asked " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked Ali Ahmed Yonis , the local guerrilla commander , how many fighters the SNM had , he replied simply : ‘ I do n't know . |
| 2 | They looked at me apprehensively when I asked for a drink of cider or wine . |
| 3 | When I asked how he communicated with Bengali patients who spoke no English he said ‘ I have no trouble in communicating with them because I learned pidgin English in the army . ’ |
| 4 | When I asked Alex Lyon about this in an interview in early 1976 his answer was : |
| 5 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 6 | When I asked a Pakistani woman in her forties about this interpretation , she said : |
| 7 | When I asked my mother what she was doing , she replied : ‘ I thought if nothing were to come of your relationships , I could cut them out of the photographs ! ’ |
| 8 | When I asked if they could make me an identical one trimmed with black fur and beading instead , they were horrified but they agreed in the end . ’ |
| 9 | She has a tendency to hug herself tightly when grappling with a question , and at one point , when I asked her how she saw herself in the future , grown up and faced with decisions about her own children , she panicked for an instant and had to be consoled by the female interpreter . |
| 10 | When I asked him what those eminent shrinks did with themselves in the evenings he explained that they gathered in the hotel bar . |
| 11 | How many times had my heart sunk when I asked if we could go somewhere or try something new in our poems and he had answered with the excusing phrase ‘ I guess not ’ ? |
| 12 | When I asked if there was anything she would like me to bring , she shook her head . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When I asked why this was so she explained that since her husband died she had been managing well and felt that she had coped with all the trauma . |
| 15 | When I asked if I might walk through the camp and look at the castle from the other side , Cinderella looked distressed , so I said ‘ never mind ’ and made my way back to the stone stile . |
| 16 | To my relief , she was not shocked when I asked if I could spend most of my stay at Lough Corrib asleep in bed . |
| 17 | When I asked him if I could borrow his copy he said I would n't understand it , which is true , I suppose . |
| 18 | And when I asked his orchestra 's publicist if Daniel Barenboim would really want to be interviewed immediately after such a lengthy spell of high-altitude incarceration , she said : ‘ He came in by Concorde , he 's just been on a two-week skiing trip with his family in Switzerland — believe me , he 'll be just fine . ’ |
| 19 | He is noted for possessing a ferocious intellectual curiosity — and when I asked him what he was reading while cruising across the Atlantic on Concorde , he said without flinching , Conversations with Isaiah Berlin . |
| 20 | ‘ Er , I ca n't remember , ’ he said when I asked him who he was interviewing the following week . |
| 21 | Old hands from the music business — usually loquacious if invited to reminisce — were struck by collective amnesia when I asked them about Dury . |
| 22 | When I asked a class of five-year-olds what they would like to ‘ turn me into ’ for a story , they said a witch , and added , a very wicked witch . |
| 23 | When I asked Tony Geraghty what he had meant by ‘ not being counted ’ he pointed out that the S.A.S. 's own casualty figures did not add up . |
| 24 | That was the first thing that struck me when I asked you to dance . |
| 25 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 26 | When I asked Mrs Zamzam what her sons did for a living , a young man interrupted to say that they all worked ‘ for the revolution ’ . |
| 27 | When I asked Mrs Zamzam whether she would really go back to Palestine if the frontier was opened , she did not hesitate . |
| 28 | A young man wearing a yarmulka skullcap and sitting astride a roaring tractor wiped his brow with his arm when I asked for the location of Um Al-Farajh . |
| 29 | But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined . |
| 30 | 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 . |