Example sentences of "asking [pers pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wrote to the AAIB asking them about this , but they never answered . |
| 2 | Elderly people 's ‘ need ’ for support is difficult to measure directly , but a reasonable indicator can be obtained by asking them about their capacity to perform a range of daily living activities and self-care tasks , and about their mobility . |
| 3 | After a time we were beyond his own district , and he greeted only the other boatmen , asking them about currents and winds . |
| 4 | Petrovich found in her interviews with the children , that if she started off asking them about " God " , as a word which they had learned , the majority of them said that God was a man . |
| 5 | A total of 350 visitors ( 97% of all respondents ) replied to question asking them about the way in which they had come to hear of the Library 's exhibitions . |
| 6 | I remember the shock of realizing that this was my last ever second-year class , then my last ever third-year class , and then people started asking me about my leaving party . |
| 7 | Why do you keep asking me about yourself ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't even think of asking me about female membership , ’ barked the old Sgt-Major . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not used to some bloody apprentice waltzing into my house and asking me about my private affairs — ’ |
| 10 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 11 | Often the enquirer is asking me about something else entirely and is probably surprised to get a reply warning of impending doom and destruction ! |
| 12 | ‘ People are always asking me about God , ’ remarks Stephen Hawking , as if surprised by their readiness to associate the origin of the universe with a creator . |
| 13 | Suddenly , the other evening , he starts asking me about all the new sorts of mobile phone on the market — how they work , what their range is , how much they cost . |
| 14 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Charles was just asking me about Marius . ’ |
| 16 | He was asking me about some man called Payne who seems to have died years ago . |
| 17 | ‘ Stop asking me about that ! ’ |
| 18 | But well Evelyn was asking me about reading and writing but first of all she asked did we still go to you see and I said no I sa we s I said we decided it did n't suit him . |
| 19 | But he said , I said it as a joke when she was asking me about my flying and I said I do n't do as much flying as I 'd like to , I 've , I 've got a wife to support and she takes all the money . |
| 20 | I think Alwin and Pat use an auditor cos as you know he 's in business and I 've got a feeling that Alwin was asking me about the auditors the other day , so whether there 's would be , whoever he is , would be er willing to do it , I do n't know . |
| 21 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |
| 22 | Like cos he was asking me about Shane |
| 23 | The ‘ Yes to All ’ button stops Windows from asking you about every file . |
| 24 | I believe Mr Wood 'll be asking you about that . |
| 25 | Oh yes , I was asking you about John . ’ |
| 26 | The reason I 'm asking you about that is erm I had er I had when I had my own business I was approached and we 've got an estate agent in the Hamilton called |
| 27 | now Mr what I 'm asking you about is the space see how I 'm speaking out so try and speak up like this so the jury can hear . |
| 28 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 29 | How difficult was it Mandy to think when Jenny was asking you about your holiday ? |
| 30 | Graham , I want to start by asking you about you being mayor . |