Example sentences of "asked [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laibon asked me to sit in the boma , and pointed to my tape-recorder . |
| 2 | He asked me to sort through the files and see if I could come up with something to make life easier . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ She asked me to inquire about the case . |
| 4 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He had already contacted the police and when they came they asked me to look after the children so we sat in the car . |
| 6 | They 'd put her into a side ward and removed the mirrors and she asked me to peek under the cloth and tell her what she looked like . |
| 7 | She asked me to stand by the gate while she spoke to him . " |
| 8 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 9 | He had no answer , but in the meantime the manager appeared and asked me to come into the office . |
| 10 | That evening , Frank asked me to walk in the town with him . |
| 11 | He asked me to bring over the wedding invitation … |
| 12 | As a result Mrs Pankhurst asked them to withdraw from the WSPU , and the militant suffragette movement split off into the ‘ Peths ’ and the ‘ Panks ’ , with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence helping to found the non-violent Votes for Women Fellowship and the Women 's Freedom League . |
| 13 | On the Sunday following the manor fire , as Tom , Seb , Dolly and Carrie left Swinbrook chapel after the morning service , Christian asked them to come to the farmhouse . |
| 14 | This was the reason I asked you to return to the house of your childhood : because the places we have loved — or hated — as children remain in the mind as almost a structuring force . |
| 15 | We asked you to choose between the two Royals in a fun phone-in . |
| 16 | A few months ago I asked you to write to the magazine with your queries about Silver machines , and suggestions for the subjects you 'd like me to write about . |
| 17 | Her husband , Vincent , asked her to go to the doctor and have it checked , but Louise held off for nearly four months . |
| 18 | She did not fire when I asked her to go with the winner and faded right out in the last furlong , ’ said disappointed rider Frankie Dettori . |
| 19 | He asked her to go into the fo'c's'le and as soon as she was inside closed the hatch and said that she could come out when she was ready to apologise . |
| 20 | She said they were in love but their relationship was not physical and Gilfoyle asked her to move into the house in October , 1991 . |
| 21 | Victoria and Kay were so impressed with her rapport with the children that they asked her to work in the morning as well . |
| 22 | That 's why I telephoned Eleanor last night and asked her to come to the house this morning . |
| 23 | I asked her to look under the sinker plate , to see whether all the brushes and plastic gear were spinning freely . |
| 24 | Dutta said jewel merchant Guppy asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian company . |
| 25 | Ishan Dutta said Darius Guppy , best man to Princess Diana 's brother Charles in 1989 , phoned him in Bombay and asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian jewel company . |
| 26 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 27 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 28 | Before he left , the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline asked him to report on the treatment of convicts in Van Dieman 's Land . |
| 29 | I asked him to go to the shed and take all my kites away and burn them , which he duly did , in a hollow now called Kite Pyre Dell . |
| 30 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |