Example sentences of "ask [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Michael was anxious to get it sorted out and asked me to arrange the wedding . ’ |
| 2 | He asked me to hold the coffee up to his lips and I was gone . |
| 3 | You asked me to do the Wigan archiving |
| 4 | As soon as Ken Hurren mentioned the word in his office this morning , when he asked me to take the task on , I felt a secret dismay . |
| 5 | They asked me to take the children for a full medical . |
| 6 | He asked me to join the Party . |
| 7 | One mother held up an emaciated child , and in sign language asked me to vaccinate the baby . |
| 8 | At all events , when I mentioned it to Heather , she asked me to repeat the name of the restaurant . |
| 9 | ‘ He asked me to circulate the story of his death . |
| 10 | If you remember , yesterday afternoon , after the funeral , Francis asked me to lock the studio and bring him the key . |
| 11 | ‘ One paper asked me to pick the Derby winner and I picked the first four . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) asked me to list the contributions of our European Community partners . |
| 13 | Nick asked me to read the putts with him but still nothing happened . |
| 14 | But I was glad we could n't because they asked me to read the lesson . |
| 15 | I undressed her in her South Kensington hotel room and fucked her , only retreating to the safety of the street outside when she asked me to stay the night so that she could pretend to be my mother . |
| 16 | The Member for Ogmore also asked me to consider the question of enforcement . |
| 17 | In went the putt and he asked me to keep the ball because he wanted to take it home and get it mounted instead of throwing it to the crowd . |
| 18 | He asked me to contact the War Commission . |
| 19 | Their president , Gordon Stulberg , became president of Twentieth Century-Fox and asked me to direct The Poseidon Adventure , which became the company 's most profitable film . |
| 20 | ‘ When Julius phoned me yesterday and asked me to bring the files he wanted to work on , he did n't tell me you were staying here . ’ |
| 21 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 22 | We also asked them to name the party they thought best on economic matters for themselves and their families , for Britain as a whole , and for the unemployed . |
| 23 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
| 24 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 25 | She called the switchboard and asked them to page the physio on call , and was told she was in ITU with a patient and likely to be tied up for at least half an hour . |
| 26 | Before presenting the subjects with the lists for the second time , the researchers asked them to recall the words . |
| 27 | ‘ The holidaymakers were having a party and one of the prisoners went and asked them to keep the noise down . |
| 28 | For example , when Bernstein showed working-class children a sequence of pictures and asked them to tell the story contained there , they began so to speak from inside it : ‘ he kicks the ball through the window then the woman chases them ’ etc. ( 1971 ) . |
| 29 | While Jack and Kathleen dealt with the patient , Amy rang the switchboard and asked them to pass the message on to Dr Marumba . |
| 30 | At the start we asked them to approach the Union of Post Office Workers ( UPW ) to cut off the mail to Grunwick but they would n't do that either . |