Example sentences of "asked [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you ever take drugs ? ’ the senator asked me after a long silence . |
| 2 | ‘ With your good-looking Drew ? ’ asked someone with a friendly laugh . |
| 3 | And if he decided that he did n't want a divorce ? she asked herself with a small shiver . |
| 4 | Phoebe lying on her bed in her mother 's house in north London , asked herself with a sudden rush of nostalgia . |
| 5 | " And what next ? " she asked herself in a low voice . |
| 6 | Linda asked her on a sudden impulse . |
| 7 | One friend has explained how , in a conversation in which she was lamenting the cost of electricity , Eliot asked her in a confidential manner , " Are you on the domestic tariff ? " |
| 8 | Rose asked her in a low voice . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're prepared to go , I suppose ? ’ the magistrate asked him with a studied casualness Zen found rather insulting . |
| 10 | ‘ What have they done to you now ? ’ she had mildly enquired , looking up from a photocopy of an article on The Compulsion to Public Prayer : a study of religious neurosis in a post-Christian society which she had just received in her own post , and Charles had said , ‘ Asked us to a New Year 's Eve party . ’ |