Example sentences of "she asked [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking for the mound from where he stormed the Irish town while researching her biography of Cromwell , she asked a local priest for directions . |
| 2 | ‘ Can you imagine me as the First Lady ? ’ she asked a friend in 1962 . |
| 3 | ‘ Would you tell everyone to get a move on ? ’ she asked a startled nurse . |
| 4 | She asked a question then that tore him apart . |
| 5 | Next , they offered to pay the woman of the house for the milk , and she asked a shilling , at which some of the men goaded her towards more ; when she refused to raise her price , Boswell gave her a half-crown ( influenced , I feel , not so much by her honest generosity , but by her shapeliness which he described as ‘ comely almost as the figure of Sappho ’ ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Where is the Christ Child ? ’ she asked a woman washing at the well . |
| 7 | She asked a lot of people a lot of questions and always wrote the answers in her notebook . |
| 8 | She asked a question about her dead dog , and how happy little Foofles was in the afterlife . |
| 9 | ‘ So why did it go wrong ? ’ she asked a little bitterly . |
| 10 | ‘ Is it really worth going somewhere else ? ’ she asked a trifly wistfully , filling her lungs with cool fresh air and realising for the first time that the pavements were damp and it must have been raining . |
| 11 | Her last evening — last Saturday — I suggested she asked a few hospital colleagues in for pasta , which she did . |
| 12 | The bill had already been taken care of , she found out as she asked a porter to help with their bags . |
| 13 | She asked a waiter for another pot , and settled down to catching up with the story of Swan 's life . |
| 14 | She asked a footman to get him a brandy , for he was trembling . |
| 15 | ‘ And I suppose you know which is ? ’ she asked a shade wearily . |
| 16 | But she asked no questions about his past life and told him nothing about hers . |
| 17 | At one station a nice old Burmese woman brought us limes — her old arms scratched by the thorns — she asked no payment , it was her gift of love to this train load of refugees . |
| 18 | She asked no more questions . |
| 19 | She asked no questions in return , however , and when Dauntless volunteered information about himself , appeared bored in the extreme . |
| 20 | She felt tired and cold from all her walking , her shoes badly worn , and without thinking she asked the landlady if he had left a note for her . |
| 21 | She asked the court to refer to the European Court the question of whether Article 59 of the EC Treaty could be taken as meaning that a member state could bar the giving of information in its territory about services in another member state that were illegal in the first country . |
| 22 | The tall dark girl got off the London train and as she passed through the barrier at Stowerton station she asked the woman collecting tickets where she could get a taxi . |
| 23 | She asked the driver to take her to the estate agent . |
| 24 | ‘ What 's it say ? ’ she asked the nurse who was smoothing out fresh sheets . |
| 25 | She gave Charles the address , and looked so happy and excited when she asked the Stage Door Keeper to get her the Wimbledon number , that he quite forgave her for keeping him hanging about in the draughty passage outside his box . |
| 26 | She asked the traveller in jelly if he would care to join them , whereupon his Adam 's apple fluttered , and he repeated the all-purpose word ‘ lymmener ’ , which , on this occasion , they took to mean ‘ no ’ . |
| 27 | Over and over she asked the questions and became so demented by them that , though she trembled with indignation , she once more went into the Casa Guidi and , controlling herself as best she could , asked to see her old mistress . |
| 28 | ‘ Is n't it unusual , ’ she asked the Russians , ‘ for a novelist to make open use of real , living people ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You 've read all the novels , have you ? ’ she asked the Russians . |
| 30 | ‘ Would you make a small detour for me ? ’ she asked the driver . |