Example sentences of "i ask you to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I asked you to be honest so I 've no right to complain because you 've spelt it all out . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Last , but definitely not least , I ask you to carefully read the ‘ situation vacant ’ list for the committee . |
| 4 | All these cases are ones in which the addressee of the words ‘ I ask you to be content ’ has already benefited under another disposition , and is now suffering the indignity of having that testamentary largesse curtailed . |
| 5 | Till I ask you to ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Jane , ’ he said , ‘ I ask you to be my wife . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're not going to fire Eleanor , and especially not if I ask you to . ’ |
| 9 | Clinton characterized his victory as a vote for a " new beginning " , and proclaimed : " I ask you to be Americans again , to be interested in not just getting but in giving , not just in placing blame but in assuming responsibility . " |
| 10 | So I ask you to be open minded they may seem a little bit off the wall to start with , but everything that we do is done for a purpose to achieve er what we 're wanting to achieve and what I do want to achieve is by the end of tomorrow is to have given you a system . |
| 11 | ‘ But I ask you to be Americans again , to be interested not just in getting but in giving … not just in looking out for yourselves , but in looking out for others . ’ |
| 12 | May I ask you to … ‘ ) which give the option of refusal ; we apologize for imposing ( ‘ I 'm sorry to bother you ’ ) , and add in praise to make our hearer feel good ( ‘ You know much more about car engines than I do ’ ) . |
| 13 | Erm , could I ask you to just share with us briefly , er , not in great detail , but , just a few words about what it is that you want to influence somebody about . |
| 14 | From your knowledge first of all , that Lawrence can I ask you to of how you would regard the prospect of trying to arrest him while he was armed . |
| 15 | Yes , well could I ask you to er tell us a little bit Lord the jury and and in December of nineteen eighty eight what was your rank and job ? |