Example sentences of "asked if [pers pn] would [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 which I asked if they would stay , but they altogether refused , and seeing that they refused I did not hinder them to go , for I will press no man .
2 finished , so I asked if they would help me to sort out the erm
3 One morning a carter and his son were delivering a load of firewood and Grandmother asked if they would like a slice of pudding before they left .
4 He stood up slowly , asked if they would like coffee , made his way out of the room when they accepted the offer .
5 Women on the way to FAMILY 'S housework classes would be stopped by feminists and asked if they would like to do karate or woodwork instead ; new fiancées would receive congratulatory cards in the post , enclosing leaflets outlining the legal rights of wives , while their startled boyfriends got anonymous warnings to behave .
6 ‘ You must be joking , ’ a Russian friend said when I asked if he would watch the May Day parade on television .
7 The next day she went back to Branson and asked if he would renegotiate along the lines of the original Virgin proposition , for an 85–15 split in the shareholding .
8 A hotel spokeswoman said : ‘ He booked in his family and we asked if he would do a turn . ’
9 When the police asked if he would do it again Ninham admitted he would .
10 I met him two or three years later when I asked if he would make me a dress for the March of Dimes , using some peony pink silk that Winston brought back from China .
11 I asked if he would swear a statement to this effect if it were necessary .
12 ‘ Anyway , we remained friends , and when he decided to come down here and start his practice I asked if he would take me on as a pupil veterinary nurse .
13 ‘ Remembering her back door was unlocked she asked if he would climb her wall and let her in , ’ a spokesman said .
14 Guy 's parents asked if he would live , and were told that he would , but that the doctors would not know how much brain damage he might have suffered until he came out of the coma and regained consciousness .
15 Tony was teaching Maureen to drive and Anne asked if he would teach her too .
16 I asked if he would like a coffee , or to be taken home , but he could only shake his head .
17 He hummed and sounded quite at ease , so Fred asked if he would like the record .
18 She poured a glass of Perrier water for herself and asked if he would like to smoke some pot .
19 He asked if I would advise him to send for Henderson , I said ‘ No ’ , which he said relieved him .
20 He asked if I would advise him to send for Henderson .
21 My father , , who retired from two years ago , asked if I would visit a fellow pensioner — .
22 On a night in early winter , one of those wild exciting nights with a brilliant moon sliding in and out of the racing clouds , Mrs Browning rang , and asked if I would go down .
23 Then — this was the really weird part — he asked if I would stay the night round there .
24 I greeted the first man to approach the car in my broken French and to my surprise , he asked if I would prefer to continue the conversation in English .
25 He asked if I would do this play , and I agreed . ’
26 I could hardly speak , I told him it was fantastic , he asked if I would do it again .
27 Then she asked if I would consider returning home with someone living in to look after me .
28 I went to a meeting and they asked if I would try to get them contacts from the West , ’ said Mrs Charlton .
29 Haines asked if I would ring up Max Aitken — whom he knew to be a very good friend — to ask him to dissuade his editor from publishing the story , which had until then been kept as a dark secret .
30 The landlady was going out to see the workers among her hay some miles down the glen ; her man-servant ( the Hermit of Glencoe ) drove , and she asked if I would come with them as far as they went .
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