Example sentences of "asked [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that somebody asked me to do some heads . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 3 | " You asked me to report preliminary findings as soon as I could , so I 'm giving you a ring , " he said . |
| 4 | ‘ He asked me to take good care of them . |
| 5 | Then glancing at Agnes , she said , ‘ Aggie asked me to take some towels across to the house for the people coming in tomorrow . ’ |
| 6 | They asked me to get thirty-six teams , at one point in was fifty-seven but it settled down to thirty-six |
| 7 | Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat . |
| 8 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 9 | When the Editor asked me to write this article I happily agreed . |
| 10 | ‘ Details , of course , will take time and come later , but that 's my general philosophy ; that 's what you would get if you asked me to complete this job for you . ’ |
| 11 | She asked me to have two trees planted in the school playing field in her memory to provide shade for children in the summer . |
| 12 | So he asked me to bring some stuff up . ’ |
| 13 | We asked them to consider two things — what would make a good general gift for any fishkeeper — and what would they actually want to find in their Christmas stocking . |
| 14 | But I asked them to photograph those documents which we found and they do n't want to do it , so that 's up to them . |
| 15 | She said , well , she said , I asked you to take four people home and you said , No I 'm sorry . |
| 16 | Now did you draw I asked you to draw some graphs did n't I . |
| 17 | I asked you to move this lot , and you did n't ! |
| 18 | " You would n't get the wrong idea if I asked you to put that light out , would you ? " she asked . |
| 19 | I phoned Annie and asked her to cancel both performances today , and those on Monday and Tuesday . |
| 20 | With this in mind , we searched out one of Britain 's leading exponents of the Gothic bodice-ripper and asked her to inject some life into the first ascent of the Eiger 's north face . |
| 21 | Next Lilliput asked him to paint three pictures based on London 's river for reproduction in the July 1947 issue of the magazine . |
| 22 | The stranger asked him to promise one thing : ‘ Do n't stay in the job for more than ten years , because you 'll get stale . |
| 23 | In the later stages of Metaltronix I had a guy work for me who had a tube engineering degree , but that kind of knowledge still does n't teach you about designing — the times I asked him to design certain circuits and he 'd just stare at me ! |
| 24 | He gave Sandison the address and asked him to do three things : check that Maidstone was all right , check that he still had his money and give him back his hat . |
| 25 | The Star , for example , had managed to locate their wedding photographer , who claimed that the day after the wedding ceremony the couple asked him to do some pictures with the woman ‘ posing in sexy French underwear ’ . |
| 26 | I asked him to bring those girls here . |
| 27 | Since McFarlane was an honourable man , North was not unduly worried when he asked him to alter official documents ; and when McFarlane sat down at North 's computer on November 18th to type in ‘ additional input that was radically different from the truth ’ , North still considered he must have had ‘ a darn good reason for not putting the straight story out ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Are you suggesting I asked him to play slow music ? ’ she shot back , outraged . |
| 29 | The United Kingdom pointed out that , by letter of 1 March 1983 , it informed the Commission of the problem created by the registration of Spanish vessels and of its intentions in that regard and asked it to put forward measures which would enable the problem to be resolved . |
| 30 | Hitherto , when they asked us to obey those laws , we have known that we could change them , but hereafter a combination of people with different languages , understandings and cultures can set , and are by combination setting , upon us standards , rules and laws which may be suitable for Greece , central or northern Europe , France or Spain but which are not right for us . |