Example sentences of "ask [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seconds later , he asked me urgently to bring over a large roll of cotton-wool . |
| 2 | Afterwards viewers sent a deluge of complaints about how boring the show was and asking them never to return to the Hacienda . |
| 3 | ‘ My time was being taken up by people asking me either to find them a folly or a buyer for some extraordinary building , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 4 | ‘ We are quite capable of running our own piggy bank , without asking someone else to do it for us . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ All it means is you ca n't sort yourself out and you are asking somebody else to do it for you . ’ |
| 6 | There are still major tailbacks there , though , and the police are asking you still to avoid it . |
| 7 | That is why I am asking you now to become a Friend of Save the Children . |
| 8 | He told her how much he had missed her while he was away skiing and then asked her simply to marry him . |
| 9 | have moved on Ask me once to go with you |
| 10 | And then you 've got ta ring them up and ask them again to see who 's to see who Cos they usually say , Well I 'll see what I can do , and then you 've got to ring them up again and see if they 've done anything , and and er and then sometimes you 've got ta ring them up again . |
| 11 | So , erm , you know , my mother like , if she , if she needs something , she just asks me just to pop to erm , Gateways . |
| 12 | I 'd also like to say that I 've received some twenty nine representations from constituents in my ward all of whom live in my ward who are opposed to fox hunting and have asked me today to vote to ban fox hunting on our land and I 've only received two representations from official bodies the video and , and a representation from the British Field Sports Association erm , in favour of fox hunting . |
| 13 | Because I I mean I because she had asked me originally to keep it but I keep mine all separate until you asked me for it . |
| 14 | The Secretary of State has asked me specifically to clarify the principles which underlie the administration of ECRs within the reformed health service . |
| 15 | ‘ If the FA had asked me personally to select our opponents I 'd have gone for Orient , ’ said Still . |
| 16 | Ask someone else to justify how much it meant to us . |
| 17 | What could you stop doing , or devote less time to , or ask someone else to do ? |
| 18 | And everybo , when you contract out something , when you ask someone else to do something for you . |
| 19 | You can do this even if you also want to go and speak , or ask someone else to speak for you . |
| 20 | On the back of Rousselet 's letter he adds : ‘ I ask you please to give my regards to my sisters , to M. Colin , and to M. Louis Hotteterre at the Opera and to M. Louis Hotteterre at the Opera , my godfather , and to all my friends . ’ |
| 21 | We ask you solemnly to proclaim the Republic before the people gathered here . " |
| 22 | For that reason we ask you herewith to supply your VAT registration number . |
| 23 | I ask you now to name your own price , and the guarantees you shall have also . ’ |
| 24 | So I 've asked her just to phone cancel it out , and that should just be the end of it . |
| 25 | He had asked her never to do that . |
| 26 | Ask her also to bring needle and thread . " |
| 27 | We had undertaken to collect birds and mammals for the Natural History Museum in London and we soon collected several specimens of blue-winged goose near the Sandfords ' farm ; the museum authorities had asked us specially to look out for this bird since they only had one specimen , collected in 1868 during Napier 's Magdala expedition . |
| 28 | The family have asked us specifically to pray for Marion at this time of her bereavement and to ask that the Lord would reveal to them his timing concerning their return to Brazil . |
| 29 | erm and it was so successful that they asked us again to do one from the United States |
| 30 | You did n't ask me here to talk about your summer holidays . ’ |