Example sentences of "ask [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that somebody asked me to do some heads . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 3 | " You asked me to report preliminary findings as soon as I could , so I 'm giving you a ring , " he said . |
| 4 | ‘ He asked me to take good care of them . |
| 5 | Then glancing at Agnes , she said , ‘ Aggie asked me to take some towels across to the house for the people coming in tomorrow . ’ |
| 6 | They asked me to get thirty-six teams , at one point in was fifty-seven but it settled down to thirty-six |
| 7 | Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat . |
| 8 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 9 | When the Editor asked me to write this article I happily agreed . |
| 10 | ‘ Details , of course , will take time and come later , but that 's my general philosophy ; that 's what you would get if you asked me to complete this job for you . ’ |
| 11 | She asked me to have two trees planted in the school playing field in her memory to provide shade for children in the summer . |
| 12 | So he asked me to bring some stuff up . ’ |
| 13 | We asked them to consider two things — what would make a good general gift for any fishkeeper — and what would they actually want to find in their Christmas stocking . |
| 14 | But I asked them to photograph those documents which we found and they do n't want to do it , so that 's up to them . |
| 15 | She said , well , she said , I asked you to take four people home and you said , No I 'm sorry . |
| 16 | Now did you draw I asked you to draw some graphs did n't I . |
| 17 | I asked you to move this lot , and you did n't ! |
| 18 | " You would n't get the wrong idea if I asked you to put that light out , would you ? " she asked . |
| 19 | Erm , I do n't know how , what we can do , I , I would suggest that we er , the Council writes to the President of the Board of Trade , making representations in support of the original boundaries of the bid , and , and also writes to our M Ps , whose constituencies are involved in this bid area , asking them to support these representations , er , er , and do the best we can to make sure that the , the five B area is as we submitted it . |
| 20 | They returned from an outing to find a note on the door asking them to call local police about a ‘ serious family problem ’ . |
| 21 | It need only do what it does now when it examines doctors ' behaviour by asking them to justify that behaviour before a panel of their professional peers . |
| 22 | Recently the Friends contacted hospital staff asking them to make regular payments to the charity , with the money funding schemes such as a creche and health care bursaries . |
| 23 | What we 're doing is showing them the colour of light , the hydrogen spectrum that 's given off and asking them to make some measurements on it which give a clue to the nature of what is happening in hydrogen . |
| 24 | D' ya think it might be worth writing to some of the and asking them to donate any paper plates ? |
| 25 | Two months before his departure he wrote to twelve or fifteen poets , requesting their public support for Pound and asking them to provide private testimonials in the event that he should be tried and sentenced for his crime : there was , at this stage , a strong possibility that Pound would be condemned to death . |
| 26 | It thereupon wrote to all institutions offering advanced work asking them to provide detailed information about student numbers and other aspects of planning forward to 1984–5 . |
| 27 | And the day I have games was asking me to do fifty pick-ups run around the circuit five hundred |
| 28 | ‘ Listen , if I was n't just John Dyson , but The John Dyson , people would n't even waste their time asking me to do ten-guinea talks for the Overseas Service — they 'd know I 'd be fully occupied doing pieces for Playboy and Esquire at a thousand dollars a time , and going on television at a hundred guineas an appearance . |
| 29 | The requirement that a candidate must get the support of 20 per cent of the Parliamentary Labour Party in order to stand is like asking someone to collect 13,000 nominations in a constituency before they can stand for parliament . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's all right , I 'm not asking you to divulge that purpose . |