Example sentences of "[noun] he asked " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , I 'm going to go back into my bedroom and Neil can still use the ensuite shower cos he 's got the tip of the idea that he 's got to come in clothed and knock on the door cos last time I was in my bedroom he asked if he could use the shower , situation he 'd you know , and I 'd let him after all , it 's not as though my be , there 's a door between my bedroom and the |
| 2 | When he came alongside a trawler 25 miles out from the English coast he asked : ‘ Am I going in the right direction for France ? ’ |
| 3 | When they visited Texas he asked why the young men seemed so gloomy when there was so much to be happy about , and in Cambridge he publicly embraced his old friend , Conrad Aiken , moving Aiken almost to tears . |
| 4 | When Denis made no reply he asked again : ‘ Are you all right ? |
| 5 | Brushing aside our thanks he asked when the anniversary was . |
| 6 | There are a number of areas in which he wishes to see changes in BCU policy and at his interview he asked that , if appointed , he should be permitted to get on and do the job freely . |
| 7 | In broad Scots he asked Selkirk for his authority , the soldier flourished a piece of parchment and told him to hurry . |
| 8 | To hide his fear he asked Zach to tell a joke and do his funny buffalo step . |
| 9 | ‘ The day before I was due to go back to England he asked me to marry him . |
| 10 | After a sumptuous repast he asked the Mayor whether the gallows was prepared . |
| 11 | So the next question he asked was whether , to protect the young , sows would willingly accept controls as an alternative to being forcibly confined . |
| 12 | For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’ |
| 13 | After a moment he asked ‘ If you had to betray your master , would you do it ? ’ |
| 14 | When she made no move he asked teasingly , ‘ Have you any hang-ups about the woman occasionally taking the lead in lovemaking ? ’ |
| 15 | A friend of the Websters ' son ( who was in the Middle East ) took to visiting the house rather often , and one evening he asked me to go with him to the cinema in Bletchley . |
| 16 | One evening he asked for one with his coffee , which I gave him . |
| 17 | During a lecture to a lay group he asked a volunteer to come to the front and do a reading . |
| 18 | He put it all into practice with The Clash When he got Joe Strummer into The Clash he asked me what I thought of him . |
| 19 | Still staring at the wall he asked , ‘ Did you find her ? ’ |
| 20 | This letter is going to be devoted to my affairs in connection with Edward … the other day he asked me if I thought you would care to go for a walk into the country somewhere . |
| 21 | The day he asked Hilary to marry him was the day Simon Mayo got his breakthrough as a DJ for national radio . |
| 22 | One day he asked her why she looked so sad . |
| 23 | Without turning his head he asked : |
| 24 | At the station he asked for directions to the industrial estate , and walked it in a quarter of an hour . |
| 25 | When the farmers came with their grain he asked as his fee one-half of the flour , and the half the farmer received would , as often as not , be full of dust and siftings . |
| 26 | Of the science fiction writers he asked that each serial should explore and extrapolate on a known scientific or cultural theme , such as nuclear war , doppler imaging or xenophobia . |
| 27 | On that occasion he asked : |
| 28 | On one occasion he asked Paddick out for dinner . |
| 29 | Then , pausing to wipe his forehead he asked : ‘ Jos , what was it like , in the forest ? ’ |
| 30 | He drove past the Café Unic , where his father and Jacques , and other members of their cadre had held their last meeting , and where he had dined with Isobel the night he asked her to marry him . |