Example sentences of "to ask [pers pn] if [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are ready to approach these people to ask them if they will fill in questionnaires or be interviewed to help us with our research . |
| 2 | Erm probably the most fair way to do this erm I mean fair to our friends and relatives in other r parts of the country , is to ask them if they could either send us their local papers or |
| 3 | if , erm while this is going round you have any questions , now would be , now would be a good time to ask them if you have any , there will be time at the end to talk , you can do |
| 4 | that , yes , but you ca n't get it out , you 'll spill it on ya , right , close the fridge door please , you 're not supposed to go in the fridge either are you ? , you 're supposed to ask me if you want them , look you 're letting all the cold out of the fridge ah , get out of the freezer what shall I do with you ? |
| 5 | Well you 'd have to ask me if you can go yet ! |
| 6 | For example , as a teacher I assume the right to call my students by their first names ; they have to ask me if it 's permissible to use mine . |
| 7 | And you know yesterday she had the nerve to ask me if she could sit at the end of our table . |
| 8 | Some time later a man came along the path and stopped to ask me if I was all right , I told him yes and to please go away , which he did but I thought he 'll go to fetch help so I 'd better do it now . |
| 9 | Mum keeps coming in to ask me if I feel ill . |
| 10 | It got a roar of appreciation which I can still hear , and afterwards Stephen Sondheim came over to ask me if I 'd had the dress made to go with the remark . |
| 11 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 12 | He said he 'd come to ask me if I would be prepared to explain to you what had happened five years ago . |
| 13 | I 'll 'ave one o ’ them when I go to work and do n't forget to ask 'er if I can come again . |
| 14 | Instead he said , ‘ I was going to ask you if we might have some breakfast . |
| 15 | I was going to ask you if they 'd got a youth team ? |
| 16 | Oh it 's summat about erm yeah it is you know erm where you vote for them union things I meant to ask you if they 'd got a stamp |
| 17 | " Mr. Preston wanted me to ask you if it would be convenient to move the bureau into your part of the house this afternoon , " Mrs. Mott began . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to ask you if you 'll kindly let me borrow that . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Excuse me , miss , ’ he said respectfully , ‘ but my master has sent me to ask you if you would care to take a seat in our carriage . |
| 20 | If I were to ask you if you could come to dinner tonight and you replied ‘ Yes ’ or ‘ No ’ , my wife and I could plan accordingly . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not going to ask you if you do , ’ Claire said , and smiled . |
| 22 | I do n't like to ask you but me mam asked you me to ask you if you could give her something for to give her some energy , she 's sleeping all the time now . |
| 23 | Listen , I wanted to ask you if you 'd seen Zaria . |
| 24 | Tell me when , when we when we s started our discussion of the planning the future document I did say that er there was one or two things you could do for me and er one of those of course was to ask you if you could , during the course of our discussion , if any names came to , to mind , anybody who you would find that you could er you could recommend me to or can refer to me to if in fact you found our discussions were of benefit |
| 25 | A CBS spokesman did not exactly say ‘ Bollocks ! ’ when we phoned to ask him if it was true — but his denial implied that he reckoned our enquiry was testicular in the extreme . |
| 26 | A CBS spokesman did not exactly say ‘ Bollocks ! ’ when we phoned to ask him if it was true — but his denial implied that he reckoned our enquiry was testicular in the extreme . |
| 27 | might of thought to ask him if I 'd of seen him , but you know the lad I go in there with Chris ? |
| 28 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 29 | In his spare time he sat with the Bookman in the spots of sun on the shelves or hunted for Mould to ask him if he could borrow some of his tools . |
| 30 | The next meeting came when Chapman called at the player 's sports shop in Sunderland to ask him if he would agree to move to Arsenal . |