Example sentences of "ask him about [art] " in BNC.

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1 In making a decision on the first of the three cases cited , the Commissioner communicated with the Chief Executive of the National Health Service Management Executive , asking him about a health authority 's duty to provide continuing nursing care which is assessed as being needed , and which is not otherwise available .
2 The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day .
3 When you 're bored bored at other times , let's put it that way if he starts doing any bio-chemistry at all start as , start asking him about the proper names of the systematic names of things and you watch him bristle !
4 What I was trying to say was , if you 're really bored with him and he 's doing is , any form of bio-chemistry start asking him about the correct names , what are they ?
5 She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room .
6 ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry .
7 What I did n't mention to him was Gilbert 's phone call where he said she rang him on Saturday evening and asked him about a box . ’
8 I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings .
9 It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here .
10 When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been .
11 Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt .
12 I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned .
13 While Steve was busying himself John asked him about the bridge and the strange feeling in the cutting .
14 She asked him about the beer kegs and he pointed to a flight of wooden stairs at the end of the hall .
15 I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away .
16 Honest enquirers , like the lawyer who asked him about the greatest commandment , were impressed and attracted by his Bible-based teaching ( though , as with the rich young ruler , they did not all respond to it positively ) .
17 ‘ I 'd be privileged to help , ’ he said , when we asked him about the display .
18 Remembering that Peter Suvarov had , himself , taken part in that Revolution , Julia asked him about the Russians ' probable intentions .
19 When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’
20 ‘ I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident .
21 When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society .
22 But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative .
23 A playwright once responded to someone who asked him about the message of his play that when he wanted to send messages he did so by telegram .
24 When not doing his rare caddying stints , Tip can be found enjoying a beer and an occasional rum-chaser at the Dunvegan Hotel , overlooking those revered links that are a constant reminder of his glory years , and a spur to his memory when the young caddies ask him about the good old days .
25 Phone Rich and ask him about the sound !
26 go up to Lee and ask him about the letter that got
27 When Esau next asks him about the purpose of the three droves sent on ahead ( it would appear that the slaves accompanying them have not passed on Jacob 's message ) , Jacob answers , ‘ To find favour in the sight of my lord . ’
28 Through the crowd round the barrels William saw the priest who 'd officiated at the funeral and who 'd asked him about the hymns .
29 " Have you asked him about the insurance valuation ? "
30 She could have asked him about the carrots .
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