Example sentences of "ask [pron] [verb] and [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked me to go and stay with them , away from the place where the burglary had taken place . |
| 2 | And she ke , said yo when th , one day when there was , went out for play time quarter of an hour they rang the bell , she asked me to stop and help her with some papers . |
| 3 | Your father asked me to try and talk you out of this engagement , to try and find out what you felt about this boy . |
| 4 | He asked me to try and get him a map but this was a difficult thing to do in a place the size of Fontanellato , where hardly anyone possessed even an atlas of the world . |
| 5 | Raised his cap with a pretty gesture , blushed to his eyes and asked me to come and see his work . ’ |
| 6 | I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan . |
| 7 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write and thank you for allowing the seat from Snowhill to be kept on your property after it had been removed from its base . |
| 8 | ‘ In the end we asked them to come and sit at the back of the stage , ’ Miss Picon recalled . |
| 9 | This is a form that we asked you to complete and send down , and some people have done it , and some people hadn't. so should get er , a bonus point for that . |
| 10 | ‘ My father asked you to try and talk me out of getting married ? ’ |
| 11 | How much more bad publicity do the Government have to get on the failure of their housing programme from the Duke of Edinburgh , Conservative councillors and their supporters around the country before they do what we are all asking them to do and undertake a planned release of the capital receipts ? |
| 12 | I have written to the BBC asking them to reconsider and do a third series . |
| 13 | Brutus then brings on Caesar 's body and introduces Mark Antony to the crowd , asking them to stay and listen to Mark Antony 's speech , which is where Brutus ' great tragedy begins . |
| 14 | now they 're asking me to go and sit down between them , |
| 15 | He says an which he says you 've worked so hard , cos I worked for two casters which I should n't have done really , but that 's how I were used to working you see and er , he said er , I said well me dad keeps asking me to go and work for him , and he said well I 'll tell you what I 'll do with you , he says you 've worked so hard for us , this bloke came from Bloxford you know He says you 've worked so hard for us , he said we 'll agree to you going with your father , er for a month and see whether you like it , and if you do n't like it , come back and we 'll give you your job back . |
| 16 | He has come to discuss things with me on many occasions and I am always asking him to come and do just one concert with the orchestra . |
| 17 | They were always asking him to come and join them , although he did not like the sea and did not fish . |
| 18 | She found the conversation embarrassing and wondered if the time had come when she could no longer avoid asking him to come and see her new house . |
| 19 | An example I can cite is that I asked her to research and write up ( unsupervised ) an application to the Carnegie-Mellon Foundation for the microfilming of our 100,000 items in the Archive Collection . |
| 20 | She — er — heard the news , and — er — because she was in the area my aunt and uncle asked her to come and visit me . |
| 21 | ‘ I asked her to come and get me out of foster homes but she never did . |
| 22 | Matt wanted to know how her parents had fared over the last few years , and as we were about to leave the table he asked her to stay and tell him about them . |
| 23 | Erm , and I asked him to stop and come down the isle . |
| 24 | I had just finished building a 16-track studio in my house and asked him to come and have a go on that equipment that even the very big studios did n't have . |
| 25 | He was easily waylaid by anyone who asked him to stay and drink . |
| 26 | But I did not stop him coming back , and do not , I beg of you , ask me to try and explain that . |
| 27 | She 's Leader of the Patrol I 'm going to join when I go up to Guides , and she 's asked me to call and see her . |
| 28 | He 's asked me to go and stay with him . |
| 29 | In the meantime , the director who would have done it , who is a name director , has asked me to go and work at the RSC because she 's now busy for exactly that period of time . |
| 30 | He had asked me to go and work with him when he opened The Chicago Rib Shack , but I told him I thought the location was wrong . ’ |