Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] questions " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not ask me foolish questions such as — ‘ How do you propose to go about it ? ’ but instead said with easy grace , reaching into a capacious velvet bag , handing me a card : |
| 2 | ‘ Is that why you spirited me off — so you could ask me personal questions ? ’ |
| 3 | They asked me personal questions that I could not even repeat here today . |
| 4 | Others ask them fatuous questions such as whether beds are comfortable or whether they like their teachers . |
| 5 | ‘ Did you come here , ’ mumbled Dottie , very close , ‘ to ask me fatuous questions the police have already been through a hundred times , or for other reasons ? ’ |
| 6 | That they ask you specific questions of that naming it 's a multi-choice more importantly in your written answers you will have to in , you are expected to include and correct systematic ohms for any organics that you deal with . |
| 7 | Mr Deputy Speaker how right you are Mr Deputy Speaker , I 've been trying very hard methodically to stick these regulations , unfortunately when you get members ask you direct questions if one does n't get any kind of answer it gives the impression you 're ignoring them . |
| 8 | So if that and what I 'm trying to say Lucy is I 'm asking you serious questions . |
| 9 | I can ask you easy questions now and again you know . |
| 10 | Erm what you need to do if you are re- employed er you need to let the Paymaster General 's Office know , and there is a form in the this leaflet asking you various questions . |
| 11 | The therapist has to take all your details and to ask you certain questions to establish that you are indeed a suitable subject for hypnosis . |
| 12 | , Now , Mr Hyde , I will ask you certain questions , and you will answer them . |
| 13 | ‘ Mrs Tate , I have to ask you certain questions — questions which have already been put to others who were acquainted with Francis Garland , as were you and Doctor Tate . |
| 14 | The British official behind his high desk asked me numerous questions which I did n't understand . |
| 15 | They were pleasant and quiet , asking me banal questions about my life in England . |
| 16 | ‘ Do not begin to ask me idiotic questions , ’ he warned . |
| 17 | I have alarmed my own dentist by asking him detailed questions based on the knowledge gained from Gill . |
| 18 | So one of the first things I did with Clive after hypnotizing him was to ask him simple questions — ‘ What is your full name ? ’ , |
| 19 | In one regrettable case , which I myself witnessed , it had become an established sport in the house for guests to ring for the butler and put to him random questions of the order of , say , who had won the Derby in such and such a year , rather as one might to a Memory Man at the music hall . |
| 20 | ‘ When the Prime Minister comes on , ’ he says , ‘ ask him tough questions . |
| 21 | I wish Peter would n't ask me difficult questions . |
| 22 | You often ask me difficult questions , and I do n't answer . |
| 23 | I hoped to heaven the pharmacist would n't ask me difficult questions like ‘ how many ? ’ or ‘ what size ? ’ . |
| 24 | Er , not in the decision , I I spoke to Mr and he asked me certain questions . |
| 25 | So erm then er oh he asked me other questions . |
| 26 | That I am amused by such lines as " Noah/ good place to eat " ; " Doughnut/ask me silly questions " or " Theresa/fly in my soup " ( Wales , 1990 ) raises the important question , of course , here as elsewhere in the book , and equally evaded by Chiaro as by Nash , of whether a joke is still a joke if the listener fails to appreciate it , or if there is no reader- response ; is the perlocutionary effect , in other words , part of its definition ? |