Example sentences of "asked he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just to show I 'm nobody 's fool I contacted a veterinary surgeon and asked him to examine the dog ( who was a year old ) to make sure it was n't sickly , had a leg on each corner , would n't keep toppling over , and had a head fixed on the right end . |
| 2 | When six chimed on the clock above the door , I reluctantly asked him to push the blind back in , and to lock up while I checked over the day 's takings . |
| 3 | Seeing a young officer in the bar , the chairman bought Cooper-Key a drink and asked him to give the list a quick once-over . |
| 4 | When in Washington both Houses , in an extraordinary mark of respect , asked him to give the opening prayer as they assembled for the fifty-fifth Congress . ) |
| 5 | Once when I was in design and technology class , I asked him to give me a screw and he said , ‘ See me after school and I 'll give you one . ’ |
| 6 | I beamed up at my future Uncle Richard , asked him to give my love to Margaret and Dickie , my regards to the General and Co. , and added my hope that he would have a good holiday . |
| 7 | I asked him to give me a list of potentially commercial sites in the city , based on his experience of sales and demands . |
| 8 | I asked him to give me an image for Love , something I could see , |
| 9 | St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push . |
| 10 | He said that there is regular demand for shots of Sydney , and therefore it would be worth my while making a detour to extend my portfolio , I asked him to give me a list of potentially commercial sites in the city , based on his experience of sales and of demands . |
| 11 | He beat his drum under her window and she asked him to give her a rose . |
| 12 | I wrote to Mr Wood last week and asked him to give you a job on the farm . |
| 13 | When it seemed to be over , I went next door and called Fielding and asked him to give me an incredible amount of money . |
| 14 | However , I was not prepared just to accept him with no experience at all and I asked him to give me some sort of evidence about the amount of flying he had done . |
| 15 | Doubtful whether to accept this honour , he was persuaded to do so when the NID asked him to represent them as well . |
| 16 | They went to see my husband in hospital and asked him to see them when he came out . |
| 17 | ‘ Harry asked him to see me home , ’ Fiona said placatingly . |
| 18 | She asked him to fill in the hole , and have the broken water pipe repaired . |
| 19 | Kevin John Porter , 28 , was stopped by police in Commercial Street , Darlington , last summer after drinking with a friend who asked him to fill up the car . |
| 20 | Even there it would seem that he was known because a woman came to him and asked him to drive out an unclean spirit from her daughter . |
| 21 | Middleton said his friend David had called for him at 10pm on the night the bank was broken into and asked him to drive a car to Jedburgh . |
| 22 | Dutta said jewel merchant Guppy asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian company . |
| 23 | Ishan Dutta said Darius Guppy , best man to Princess Diana 's brother Charles in 1989 , phoned him in Bombay and asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian jewel company . |
| 24 | However , he already knew Joy and Alan , and the kettle was boiling , so I asked him to sit down , and would he like to join us in a coffin ? |
| 25 | ‘ Fred Proctor asked him to sit down as he had been speaking long enough . |
| 26 | During his childhood , Holovich had been taught Russian by his mother and it was ostensibly for that reason that his company asked him to visit Moscow — a quite spurious reason because we supply most adequate and experienced interpreters for commercial negotiations with foreign concerns . |
| 27 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 28 | It was soon after that that Tom the cabin boy 's Aunt Clarabel asked him to put the cat out . |
| 29 | In October he summoned to Amman the local notables favourable to his rule , where they asked him to put all Arab-occupied Palestine under his protection . |
| 30 | Cricket chairman Bob Gale asked him to put on a shirt bearing the sponsors name while photographs were being taken and Ramprakash asked whether that was a direct order . |