Example sentences of "i asked the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused . |
| 2 | It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up . |
| 3 | I asked the new director there , John Hutchinson , whether this concerned him . |
| 4 | I asked the Chief Accountant . |
| 5 | I asked the Second Son . |
| 6 | When I asked the self-same question . |
| 7 | I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around . |
| 8 | I asked the hon. Member before to bring the matter to my office . |
| 9 | I wanted to introduce Dana to Pernod , so I asked the old man for ‘ dos Pernod ’ . |
| 10 | I asked the old man why |
| 11 | I asked the old man about this client from the North and he remembered her . ’ |
| 12 | I asked the old man , his nose almost level with the steering wheel of his equally elderly car . |
| 13 | I asked the Czech manager if they would be at Rutland Water in June and he said they would not be able to afford it . |
| 14 | Mummy was coming rather slowly , so I asked the little girl her name . |
| 15 | He goes on : ‘ I asked the whole frame of the world about my God ; and it answered me , ‘ I am not he , but he made me . ’ ’ |