Example sentences of "and [pron] ask me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was at the Edward II wrap party and someone asked me if I wanted to be in a film . |
| 2 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 3 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 4 | That is over a million pounds right in that budget for committee administration and you ask me where we can save fifty thousand pounds , well start producing a few less reports . |
| 5 | And you ask me any body 's names around here I could n't even tell you Sylvia 's name next door . |
| 6 | Group pick up is very handy , if you 're with a large bunch of people in a large office , you can get together and say , ‘ Right , why do n't we answer everybody 's telephones if they 're not there , let's not just leave them ringing ’ , Okay , so you get together and you ask me and say , ‘ Right , this , this , this , this extension ’ , it could be up to 40 extensions , ‘ We all want to be in the same group pick up ’ , so what happens is the phone rings , but another one rings . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw my bank manager at the end of last year and she asked me why I was spending so much on food . |
| 8 | They 'd put her into a side ward and removed the mirrors and she asked me to peek under the cloth and tell her what she looked like . |
| 9 | And she asked me , ‘ Would that be management ? ’ ’ |
| 10 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
| 11 | The woman was in her early forties and she asked me for £5 straight away . |
| 12 | She 'd seen her brother 's and she wanted to see if they all looked like that and she asked me so I showed her mine , but it was only if she 'd show me hers and she did as well . ’ |
| 13 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 14 | We met that evening and she asked me straight out if I 'd be interested in an exclusive story : a scandal affecting a government minister . |
| 15 | But for some reason she knew he was my brother , and she asked me how he was keeping these days . ’ |
| 16 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 17 | And they ask me for hardly any rent , which is the other nice thing about it . ’ |
| 18 | The only time I do that is when I 'm talking to journalists and they ask me questions about the past . |
| 19 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 20 | And they ask me , Liz , they say . |
| 21 | They do not understand the basis of the argument and they ask me to explain the Government 's position . |
| 22 | And they ask me , Liz , they say . |
| 23 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 24 | Her first commission came about quite casually : ‘ My husband and I had gone to stay with friends and they asked me to do a charcoal drawing of their Dachshund , Rosy . |
| 25 | I got involved because his family live some way away and they asked me if I could make the arrangements , sort things out until they got there . |
| 26 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 27 | I went to the hospital and they asked me how I done it . |
| 28 | I got there and they asked me why I did n't get there sooner . |
| 29 | Yes , and they asked me what I was laughing at ; and of course I could n't say their son-in-law was so ugly , so I said : |
| 30 | A group of friends was going to St Servan near St Malo and they asked me to join them . |