Example sentences of "asked [pron] what [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 2 | He asked me what I had to do each week . |
| 3 | Paul ( Myers ) sat me down and asked me what I liked to play , and I mentioned all the things I do , including these transcriptions . |
| 4 | I also asked her what she had to say about her old life . |
| 5 | Seb arrived at the cottage as the half-gipsy girl was leaving and asked her what she had said to Anna . |
| 6 | The following evening Daphne asked her what she had thought of the young officer she had met at the Opera . |
| 7 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 8 | The teacher referred her back to the work done with connector rods and scales and then asked her what she needed to do . |
| 9 | I asked him what he had done to land himself in jail . |
| 10 | I asked him what he had told the Department of Trade and Industry , and he said that he had said nothing . |
| 11 | ‘ No , I saw the bruise when he came back to the shop on Tuesday evening and I asked him what he 'd done to himself . |