Example sentences of "[vb past] asked [pron] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I replied that of course such decisions were entirely his prerogative , then I fell into a musing mood and sought to recall something Rosa had asked me the previous week about English social customs .
2 On the album I make the comment that somebody had asked me the same question and I said , ‘ Yep , my left hand 's doing good , right hand 's doing alright , my mind 's as sharp as a tack .
3 Mr. Barnes ' affidavit quoted above showed beyond question , he submitted , that the Bank of England had asked themselves the right question ( paragraph 9 ) and that they did indeed require the production of the documents reasonably for the purposes of their own domestic supervision ( paragraphs 8 , 10 and 13 ) .
4 It had asked itself the wrong question when interpreting one of the ‘ X ’ questions in the empowering statute .
5 Any mistake of law would mean that the authority had asked itself the wrong question , which would result in a jurisdictional error .
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