Example sentences of "they [be] asking me " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're asking me ! |
| 2 | now they 're asking me to go and sit down between them , |
| 3 | Now a bad habit that I got into , right , a customer will be talking to me and I do n't know if you 've noticed it , I wo n't let them finish what they 're saying , I 'll jump in because I 'll know what they 're asking me |
| 4 | ‘ They were asking me to snub my family . ’ |
| 5 | Now I was at a wedding a little while back and all they were asking me was are you gon na be the next one ? |
| 6 | And see they were asking me what I was gon na use yesterday and I said oh I do n't know I said , I have n't got a clue . |
| 7 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |