Example sentences of "and asked [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Curtis telephoned the seamen 's shelter and asked somebody to find Titch and get him to ring back . |
| 2 | They stopped , of course , and asked what had happened , and two minutes later the three girls — clutching a pair of high-heeled shoes — were safely ensconced in the back of the car . |
| 3 | The Editor read the cable through and asked what steps I proposed to take . |
| 4 | After a few minutes a barman came in and asked everyone to move outside with the other hotel guests who had been evacuated from the building . |
| 5 | A stranger followed 26year-old Janice Butler into a lift at Aintree Hospital Trust 's site in Walton , Liverpool , and asked her to push the button for his floor . |
| 6 | A black boy with extensions on his hair walked over to her and asked her to dance . |
| 7 | The Pizza Eater took on Rachaela , gave her a red dress and a pale green apron , and asked her to put up her hair . |
| 8 | Whilst Zborowski was still in the south of France Modigliani met Madame Zborowska in the street and asked her to pose for him . |
| 9 | The following afternoon Heather called for Shirley , who was in her Six and who lived two doors away from her , and asked her to go with her to Olinton Farm to get some butter . |
| 10 | After a long session trying on clothes , she was walking out with her purchases when a man tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to go back into the shop . |
| 11 | ‘ After a few weeks he told her he was going home , and asked her to go with him . |
| 12 | He was away that weekend hang-glinding , and asked her to go with him . |
| 13 | During the 23-minute chat he called her by her pet name ‘ Squidgy ’ , told her he loved her and asked her to blow kisses down the phone to him . |
| 14 | as if she felt her sister 's gaze , Susan swung round on the piano-stool and asked her to sing come carols . |
| 15 | He came to see her every evening and asked her to recount the events of that day . |
| 16 | One of the interviewers went into a house yesterday and asked her to take off all her clothes ! |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | After checking that the proper procedures had been followed and that the incident had been fully recorded , Rachel contacted Louise Raymond , the factory welfare officer , and asked her to telephone the man 's wife and inform her that he was being admitted to hospital . |
| 19 | Then he pulled her towards him and asked her to give him a kiss , but she pulled away quickly when she saw Mum 's scowl . |
| 20 | In his mind he spoke another girl 's name ; a girl long dead , and asked her to forgive him . |
| 21 | I phoned Annie and asked her to cancel both performances today , and those on Monday and Tuesday . |
| 22 | He wrote to Mary admitting the ‘ ardent attachment ’ he had so long felt for her , and asked her to confirm a rumour that she too was now engaged . |
| 23 | With this in mind , we searched out one of Britain 's leading exponents of the Gothic bodice-ripper and asked her to inject some life into the first ascent of the Eiger 's north face . |
| 24 | Dropped her knee-deep into the Harriet Shakespeare business and asked her to think . |
| 25 | He had thought that that would be the last he would hear of her , but a few days later she had sent him her first piece , and he had been so impressed by it that he had printed it and asked her to write more for him . |
| 26 | After breakfast , she called the housekeeper and asked her to summon the rest of the staff . |
| 27 | But she found hardly anyone who wanted to talk to her afterwards apart from an American girl who admired her frock , and asked her to guess what they had had for luncheon . |
| 28 | He gave his departmental heads time to get back to their offices before he rang for Hilary Robarts and asked her to come back . |
| 29 | She rang Sylvia in New York , and asked her to come to Washington . |
| 30 | That 's why I telephoned Eleanor last night and asked her to come to the house this morning . |