Example sentences of "ask [pers pn] [to-vb] some [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 | Then glancing at Agnes , she said , ‘ Aggie asked me to take some towels across to the house for the people coming in tomorrow . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So he asked me to bring some stuff up . ’ |
| 6 | Now did you draw I asked you to draw some graphs did n't I . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Erm , so I would certainly be asking you to keep some contingency provision in that area , because we project some very expensive one-off demands on certain elements of children 's services . |
| 9 | With this in mind , we searched out one of Britain 's leading exponents of the Gothic bodice-ripper and asked her to inject some life into the first ascent of the Eiger 's north face . |
| 10 | The Star , for example , had managed to locate their wedding photographer , who claimed that the day after the wedding ceremony the couple asked him to do some pictures with the woman ‘ posing in sexy French underwear ’ . |
| 11 | The other announcement erm is er Dr has asked me to address some delinquents , no that 's not fair , some er hard working but misguided students erm tt er who are doing a political processes course , a sort of pale imitation of this course , erm probably find none of them are here today , let's , let's , let's , let's , let's b let's not be shy now , is erm is Ian here ? |
| 12 | But we ask you to spare some time during the holiday to think of those who are less fortunate . |
| 13 | That 's four hundred and eighty , what we 're doing right , okay , so you 're doing trade at the moment in lectures , and er , Bob has asked you to collect some data on er , world trade in wheat and cotton , is that correct ? |
| 14 | So you 're doing trade at the moment in er agricultural economics I think Bob has asked you to prepare some data on er wheat and cotton trade . |
| 15 | Ask him to put some water in a bowl , and you can bring it into the scullery . |
| 16 | Ask him to make some sort of crutch for me . |
| 17 | You ask him to speak some Hebrew to you . |
| 18 | ‘ Shall I ask them to send some coffee in ? ’ |
| 19 | I 'm particularly concerned perhaps if I may ask her to show some concern for this herself that the remoteness of the newspaper library , way up in the rustic further regions of the Northern Line , the great virtue of the existing site is that 's on the Inner Circle , the accessibility of this site is really its greatest virtue . |