Example sentences of "i ask you [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yesterday , when I asked you about animal rights , you said you were out of it and clammed up good and proper . |
| 2 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 3 | But it was there when my heart softened on witnessing the courtesy you showed my housekeeper , the smile you had for her ; there when I asked you to dinner with no certainty why I 'd done so , other than that it most assuredly was n't on account of any interview . |
| 4 | So i i if you can er give me the background if I ask you to sort of give me a bit of background for the case , I 'll write it up here , and I 'll write down the solutions and see what , see what you 've done . |
| 5 | ‘ May I ask you in future , Miss Kenton , to address my father as ‘ Mr Stevens ’ ? |