Example sentences of "ask [pron] [adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My time was being taken up by people asking me either to find them a folly or a buyer for some extraordinary building , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 2 | ‘ We are quite capable of running our own piggy bank , without asking someone else to do it for us . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ All it means is you ca n't sort yourself out and you are asking somebody else to do it for you . ’ |
| 4 | There are still major tailbacks there , though , and the police are asking you still to avoid it . |
| 5 | He told her how much he had missed her while he was away skiing and then asked her simply to marry him . |
| 6 | Because I I mean I because she had asked me originally to keep it but I keep mine all separate until you asked me for it . |
| 7 | He said that he could not leave his post but that if I was prepared to wait he would ask somebody else to escort me . |
| 8 | And so I must ask you again to allow me to inspect the morning 's mails . ’ |
| 9 | The others have not had an opportunity of , of actually seeing this , so I wonder if I could ask you just to read it out and we can all share |
| 10 | She handed him the tube , being fairly and correctly sure he would not ask her outright to rub it in for him . |