Example sentences of "and asked [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I showed the article to my wife — a mathematician — and asked her to remind me about ‘ eigen analysis of the covariance matrix [ z ] ’ etc , but I gather that such analysis is not exactly commonplace or entirely obvious ! |
| 2 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 3 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 4 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 5 | He gave me this and asked me to deliver it to Dick Tavett . |
| 6 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 7 | He also gave Minton a copy of Pinet 's 1733 edition of Horace , with its engraved decorations , and asked him to use it as a starting point . |
| 8 | On their first encounter , she had drawn him abruptly into her chamber and asked him to tell her about Nicholas . |
| 9 | As he lay dying , Herbert handed a little book to one of his attendants and asked him to deliver it to his dear brother Nicholas Ferrar , |
| 10 | Again , he bowed his head to the child , and when she 'd run off , he tapped again on the wall , and when the boy from the cafe appeared , he handed him the bird and asked him to keep it in his cellar for coolness until he returned from Riba on the train that evening , after he had collected the rent . |
| 11 | I managed to corner Gary for 15 minutes during his going-away party and asked him to share something of his call from God . |
| 12 | When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest . |
| 13 | I went up to the union and reported it and asked them to do something about it . |
| 14 | Afterwards , when told he had best wait for his bodyguard , Caledor replied that he could expect no better bodyguards than these hunters , and asked them to accompany him on his quest to the shrine . |