Example sentences of "when [pers pn] asked [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked him what those eminent shrinks did with themselves in the evenings he explained that they gathered in the hotel bar . |
| 2 | In Oxford , the voice of the gnomic Professor Sammy Finer , a declared political agnostic , rose a full octave when I asked him about it : ‘ It simply is n't true any longer that merit will out . |
| 3 | When I asked him if I could borrow his copy he said I would n't understand it , which is true , I suppose . |
| 4 | He is noted for possessing a ferocious intellectual curiosity — and when I asked him what he was reading while cruising across the Atlantic on Concorde , he said without flinching , Conversations with Isaiah Berlin . |
| 5 | ‘ Er , I ca n't remember , ’ he said when I asked him who he was interviewing the following week . |
| 6 | But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined . |
| 7 | When I asked him for his reaction , he sat hunched behind a table in his little palace , his head hanging down , his half-moon spectacles on the end of his nose . |
| 8 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 9 | ‘ David played it at a soundcheck and when I asked him if it was about Shaun he just smiled and then denied it . |
| 10 | And he does n't like my form of questioning , as when I asked him if he believed that the gates of heaven could only be opened by gold and silver keys ? |
| 11 | When I asked him a question he 'd say , ‘ The answer to that is — in fact the several answers to that are … |
| 12 | ‘ When I asked him what sort of things he liked , he typed in the word aeroplane , spelt perfectly . ’ |
| 13 | There were crazies like Vittorio Brambilla : when I asked him if he raced in conditions like this , what about his wife and kids ? |
| 14 | When I asked him once whether his FI career had really mattered to him that much , he answered characteristically that of course it had , but that he enjoyed racing in any form , and of all the forms of racing he enjoyed winning best : ‘ I win more over here , ’ he said , adding with a characteristic grin , ‘ and it 's easier . ’ |
| 15 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 16 | Later he confessed to me that he had been feeling a certain unease in the region of the colon ; when I asked him why on earth he had n't told me , he answered , ‘ I 'd never discuss my plumbing with ladies ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 18 | ‘ When I asked him about it he told me : ‘ Leave me alone — I 'm working . ’ |
| 19 | He laughed when I asked him if he was a clergyman . |
| 20 | When I asked him to itemize the price , so I could add it up for myself , the total came to over £100 less than he 'd quoted for the bundle . |
| 21 | When I asked him if this relationship was ‘ it ’ forever , he said yes . |
| 22 | When I asked him what for he gave a sad sigh and then a sort of bitter grin and looked me in the eye and said , ‘ Sexual harassment . ’ |
| 23 | I first talked about the war with my father on a train outside Bognor Regis , when I asked him how many Germans he had killed . |
| 24 | Yet when asked how long it takes each week to prepare and construct the next sequence , Dr Postlethwait is accustomed to laugh heartily ( as he did when I asked him ) and reply , " Oh , about fifty hours . " |
| 25 | As one student patiently explained to me when I asked him how he knew what results he was looking for : |
| 26 | When I asked him about sheets , he said , I buy them new , tell me when you want some more . |
| 27 | And when I asked him what he meant , he said irritably , ‘ Oh , do n't be more stupid than you need be . |
| 28 | But when I asked him where he had been all he said was , ‘ Go back to sleep . ’ |
| 29 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 30 | When I asked him if he had been involved in an accident , he shook his head . |