Example sentences of "ask he [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My right hon. Friend referred to the Chancellor 's views but , when we asked him that question in the Select Committee , it became clear that he was not so much against it in principle as uncertain in his own mind what he should do . |
| 2 | So erm anyway goes in , I said to him other day , I asked him other week , he says our turn to give me a ring |
| 3 | ‘ What are your favourite flowers , Ben ? ’ she asked him one day . |
| 4 | Well I hope she 'll be interested enough to , but , not really before she 's six , cos I asked him last couple of times ago , he said , what sort of age , cos obviously the size of the hands comes into it , they ca n't do too much , but he said he would n't consider before six and you ough t 'a have to take the parents into consideration , of a child that age you got ta have a parent who 's prepared to sit there and make sure the child does what he 's set them to do , because , oh Amy , you not getting any out of that . |
| 5 | She asked him another question , as he did n't seem to mind . |
| 6 | Because as I ask him some question about women , wine or wit Dudley Moore is busy chewing his nails until they might well bleed , it does n't seem too rude to mention the ends of his fingertips . |
| 7 | the first time she had ever asked him that question . |
| 8 | At the moment we were about to begin to interview Cleese 's mother turned up to ask him some detail of the day . |
| 9 | can I just ask him one question about it , erm , I 'm not an accountant and you probably , I 'm sure you know a lot more about accounts than I do , but in fact if you look at the revenue accounts for the year we 're talking about ended August nineteen ninety two at page a hundred and thirty two , do you see that ? |
| 10 | I do n't know if it was by accident — I should ask him one day — but I used to play that over and over again and just revel in that sound , and I thought if you could get hold of that sound and make a feature of it , and if it were not just two guitars but as many as you needed to make a proper arrangement , the possibilities would be endless . |
| 11 | Do n't wan na ask him this week . |
| 12 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |