Example sentences of "ask her [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Confused , she agreed , and wrote a letter confessing the weakness to a friend outside , asking her not to tell the stonyhearts at Suffragette Headquarters .
2 He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake .
3 Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him .
4 We promised to keep in touch with her , but asked her not to communicate directly with our new daughter as she grew up , feeling instinctively that a child ca n't cope with having two mothers at once !
5 He said he was sorry and asked her not to contact the emergency services .
6 He told her how much he had missed her while he was away skiing and then asked her simply to marry him .
7 A woman was coming towards him , grey-haired , plump and freckled ; Wycliffe asked her how to get to Trebyan .
8 So I 've asked her just to phone cancel it out , and that should just be the end of it .
9 Annabel has already telephoned three times , but I 've asked her not to call again , in case she disturbs a treatment .
10 John had asked her not to go up to the loft .
11 He had asked her not to tell the police .
12 Jay had asked her over to show her off to her four oldest friends .
13 He had asked her never to do that .
14 Ask her also to bring needle and thread . "
15 She handed him the tube , being fairly and correctly sure he would not ask her outright to rub it in for him .
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