Example sentences of "asked [pron] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought he should acquire a sober ‘ Anthony Eden ’ black Homburg hat and asked me where to buy one . |
| 2 | So I did n't know anything about it you know , till somebody asked me Well asked me really , Mr 's going away is n't he ? |
| 3 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 4 | He asked me not to misquote him . |
| 5 | The thing that 's teasing my mind is that I 'm fairly sure he asked me not to tell anyone he 'd been there . ’ |
| 6 | Well , to tell you the truth , your boys asked me when had I last seen my father alive and I said Friday instinctively , and then by the time I 'd realized my mistake , it was all written down , and , you know , I thought if I changed it , that 'd only create trouble . ’ |
| 7 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 8 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |
| 9 | He told her how much he had missed her while he was away skiing and then asked her simply to marry him . |
| 10 | My Mum was the only white person who lived in the whole house , a point not unnoticed by me since I often asked her how come she lived there with us when everyone else was black … |
| 11 | I asked yer ter let me do these books 'cos I wanted ter sort out the bills an' see where we can make savin 's . |
| 12 | ‘ I politely asked him not to bully me but that infuriated him . |
| 13 | When we reached the street corner where our ways separated I asked him not to tell anyone . |
| 14 | She asked him not to follow her , but he took no notice . |
| 15 | It 's like my when he was eighty , they asked him how do you feel ? |
| 16 | Sometimes he talked to it , and asked it not to kill him . |
| 17 | And when she asked he merely gave his quirky smile . |
| 18 | erm and it was so successful that they asked us again to do one from the United States |