Example sentences of "[pers pn] asked [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stalling for his arrival I asked about the religion . |
| 2 | Is he aware that , when I asked about the growth in employment in south Derbyshire recently , I was told that figures were available only until 1989 , that they are collected only once every six years and that figures for self-employment are collected only once every 10 years ? |
| 3 | I mean , ’ he stammered , ‘ when I asked about the funeral , you looked shocked and grieved . |
| 4 | I asked about the baby and she looked at me as if I should know . ’ |
| 5 | A young man wearing a yarmulka skullcap and sitting astride a roaring tractor wiped his brow with his arm when I asked for the location of Um Al-Farajh . |
| 6 | And they said so at the er at the district council , went up to district and I asked for the support of the district council and er probably John immediately said , you have the full support of the district council for it he says and I 'll ensure that you get support with the result I also received four posters direct from the Edinburgh District Council with John photograph on it and with the caption st stating every old age pensioner should be signing here . |
| 7 | Since the controller was n't busy I asked for the rest of the weather , and was told three at 800 , or 900 feet above the threshold of Runway 18 . |
| 8 | For Christmas and birthdays I asked for the red , hard-backed children 's classics published by Dean and Co. and sold in Woolworth 's : Treasure Island , The Children of the New Forest , Alice in Wonderland , What Katy Did , A Tale of Two Cities . |
| 9 | All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ . |
| 10 | The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ? |
| 11 | Might , perhaps ; there 's just something ; that 's why I asked at the meeting , but I 'd have to see the letter first , partly to see what 's in it , partly just to see it . ’ |
| 12 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 13 | I asked in the beginning . |
| 14 | Er I asked before the enquiry , at the pre-enquiry meeting , that I should have such er any additional representations before the start of the enquiry . |
| 15 | If you asked for the evidence of accountability , there were no measures . |
| 16 | You asked about the gallery . |
| 17 | When you asked about the phone call I tried to remember everything and I do n't know what else I could have told you . |
| 18 | Erm you asked about the cottage and the amounts , yeah there was you could have asked a bit more perhaps about the tax there but otherwise you 're very good . |
| 19 | I think erm yo e you know you asked about the support and I think having identified that there was a gap in the support in |
| 20 | ‘ Hmm — where 's Azor , by the way ? ’ she asked off the top of her head . |
| 21 | ‘ When are we going to bury him ? ’ she asked into the silence . |
| 22 | She asked for the secretary and launched on a long story about phoning from a restaurant where a pair of leather gloves had been found apparently left by the lady with Mr Johnston whom one of the waiters had remembered seeing at the sports club . |
| 23 | She asked for the ambulance service . |
| 24 | She asked for the duty sergeant . |
| 25 | " And you 're sure you have n't got a hankering for this Terry ? " she asked at the end . |
| 26 | ‘ What ? ’ she asked over the top of hers . |
| 27 | The evening had gone downhill since she asked about the coat . |
| 28 | ‘ Ellen , will you keep a secret for me ? ’ she asked in the end , giving me her sweetest smile . |
| 29 | But if we asked about the history of the appearance of characters then the answer is ‘ yes ’ . |
| 30 | They asked about the escape through the Channel of the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau . |