Example sentences of "[vb past] asked him " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as simple as if they 'd asked him if he knew a good plumber . |
| 2 | By the time I 'd asked him to come and play , he was already becoming a name in the pop music field . |
| 3 | He 'd never once forgotten to lock up the hens when she 'd asked him . |
| 4 | It praises the driver of the 5.05 from London Bridge to Eastbourne who climbed out of his cab with a fistful of messages from passengers who 'd asked him to phone their wives after hearing the train would be stranded for some time . |
| 5 | I tried to look as if this was perfectly normal , as if I 'd asked him to make the entry for me . |
| 6 | ‘ Little things , ’ he 'd said when , just before he fell asleep , she 'd asked him the question once more . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you 'd asked him because he was a kind considerate man and a customer . |
| 8 | That was even before they 'd asked him what qualifications he 'd got . |
| 9 | Why this endless hunt , she 'd asked him . |
| 10 | I 'd asked him if he was embarrassed that in 1966 he was saying he would be with Suzy Kendall forever , and then in 1969 it was all over , and then he was saying he would be with Tuesday Weld forever , then in 1981 it was all over , and so on . |
| 11 | I mean you 'd asked him to do that |
| 12 | Through the crowd round the barrels William saw the priest who 'd officiated at the funeral and who 'd asked him about the hymns . |
| 13 | It was probably true that he 'd asked him down to London . |
| 14 | And then we 'd asked him |
| 15 | He 'd have done a par about the lead in his pencil if you 'd asked him — a stick and a half — a column — whatever you needed ; and all of it full of wit and erudition . ’ |
| 16 | Much more to the point , why had n't he said he knew Charlotte Hanover when she 'd asked him to accompany her here this evening ? |
| 17 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 18 | Something that was n't there was a magazine she 'd asked him to get : a back copy of a thing called Focus on Germany . |
| 19 | Yeah , I could n't even fight the thought that she 'd asked him at no what I mean . |
| 20 | The Sunday before she had asked him to come to tea . |
| 21 | Not only had Saints offered the Canberra captain a lucrative contract , McIntyre said , they had asked him to canvass his team-mates as well . |
| 22 | One of the prison warders , he said , had asked him if he knew when the men were to be released . |
| 23 | He refused to stop it — mainly because my mother had asked him to , I suppose . |
| 24 | A publisher had asked him to explain , some quarter of a century after the event , how he passed from scepticism to religious belief . |
| 25 | He said foreign mediators had asked him not to use force to break Gen Aoun 's control of the enclave . |
| 26 | The MP had asked him whether the inquiry under the Assistant Chief Constable of West Yorkshire could be extended to the four members of the Serious Crimes Squad who were involved in preparing the case of the Birmingham pub bombing in 1974 . |
| 27 | He said foreign mediators had asked him not to use force to break Gen Aoun 's control of the enclave . |
| 28 | In deference to her mother 's prudent requests Helen had asked him to write only one letter a week . |
| 29 | On that third morning , though , it had been Haynes who led out the home team , since Richards was in the press box breathing fire at Daily Express journalist James Lawton who had asked him for an explanation of the V-sign he had given to his own crowd . |
| 30 | It had been a lie and the whole class had laughed when Philip had asked him how much it had cost , even Mrs Mills . |