Example sentences of "ask she [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Onslow befriended Littlejohn , who lost little time in asking her to arrange a meeting between a Government minister and his brother Kenneth , who , he said , had some important intelligence about the IRA to pass on . |
| 2 | Sir David also asked her to submit a number of stills for him to look at . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He asked her to push the button for his floor . |
| 5 | ‘ However , he did show me his dogs ' pedigrees , so I rang the breeder and asked her to send a description of the puppies which she had sold . |
| 6 | I asked her to sign a copy of All God 's Children Need Travelling Shoes for me . |
| 7 | He also asked her to keep an eye on his widow because he had heard about the carrying-on with the women-folk . |
| 8 | After breakfast , she called the housekeeper and asked her to summon the rest of the staff . |
| 9 | At twelve she asked her to fetch a salad from the local wholefood bar . |
| 10 | I asked her to meet the press off the back of the BAC One-Eleven as it came to a stop in front of us . |
| 11 | Mme Cresson 's first speech in the Assemblée Nationale as Prime Minister made it clear that the President had asked her to form a government for specific policy objectives , defined by him , and Mitterrand underlined this himself in his broadcast to the nation the night of the change of government . |
| 12 | Brian had simply made some lighthearted quip about Hindley having possibly asked her to spend the evening with him . |
| 13 | Whenever he saw her he would ask her to explain the Bible to him , and in the drawing he made of her , he wrote the Hebrew version of her name , Chana , daughter of Rafael , in Hebrew characters across the top of the head . |