Example sentences of "i ask [pron] [Wh adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him why the kid did n't use his own name , and he said maybe he thought Ben MacLean sorta sounded better . |
| 2 | I asked him why the hell he wanted me to stay the night when he was going out later , and he just shrugged his shoulders and said he was in a funny mood and did n't know what he was saying . ’ |
| 3 | I asked him how the scene from the mystery had fared that morning , as Nell had described what had happened the day before . |
| 4 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you mind , ’ said Endill , chancing his luck , ‘ If I ask you why the school is an island ? |