Example sentences of "he ask [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave him £1 … then watched him ask everyone in the station . |
| 2 | He asked nothing but justice of Heaven , and of man he asked only a fair field ; and his father seeing of how good heart he was , gave him his sword and his blessing . |
| 3 | The drum grew louder in the final roll , the flautists blew steadily , keying up anticipation , and the rattle fell silent as Dulé took one step with his other foot and left the ground , then hand over hand into the air shinned up the free-standing ladder till he alighted at the tenth rung and hung there like a heron on a breakwater at home , it seemed to Kit , even as he asked himself in wonder , what unearthly magic 's here ? |
| 4 | He asked them into Sainsbury 's , borrowed a pencil from the sausage assistant , and wrote his name on the paper bag . |
| 5 | ‘ What are they looking for ? ’ he asked them without any preliminary greeting . |
| 6 | But he asked them to ‘ see it from a different viewpoint . |
| 7 | He asked her about the place so much like the valley , the place where she 'd been born . |
| 8 | He asked her about Stock ; had she come to London for him ? |
| 9 | And their shared taste for rich cake with coffee late at night restored her faith in their friendship a little , so that when he asked her about her family 's plans for Christmas she was able to answer in a relaxed and natural way . |
| 10 | When he asked her about her day , over coffee , she was vague . |
| 11 | Why he asked her about it I could n't tell you . |
| 12 | In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened , he asked her on no account to tell his father , the prime minister , but to arrange payments on the instalment plan of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables . |
| 13 | Mrs Cullam did n't even look at him and when he asked her at what time her husband had come home on Friday night she said laconically , ‘ Quarter past eleven . ’ |
| 14 | Pat was having an affair — and in a crowded restaurant , he asked her at the top of the sentorian Williams voice : ‘ Well tell us about this man you 're having the affair with then . ’ |
| 15 | When he failed to persuade her to cancel it , he asked her for a date — and romance blossomed . |
| 16 | Kit knelt in front of Ariel and cried ; he asked her for forgiveness . |
| 17 | ‘ What 's — the matter this morning ? ’ she said , in the voice she had used when he asked her for an off-games note . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you really wonder , ’ he asked me at an embassy function in west Beirut , ‘ why we wo n't claim compensation ? |
| 19 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 20 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 21 | He asked me about costs and what exactly I 'd been doing . |
| 22 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 23 | At the end he asked me about myself , curtly , as if it was all rather a bore . |
| 24 | Having by then disposed of public affairs , he asked me about my work at the LCC school . |
| 25 | He asked me to caddie for him for the rest of the year . |
| 26 | He asked me to his room . |
| 27 | He asked me to be friends again , but I could n't forgive him . |
| 28 | " He asked me to met him several times a year , I tried to advise him , to tell him how I saw things in the world . " |
| 29 | ‘ If it was me , ’ she said , ‘ I 'd meet whoever he asked me to . |
| 30 | Accordingly , he asked me to lunch , and we went to the Russell Hotel , which was conveniently near his office . |