Example sentences of "[unc] [pers pn] [was/were] ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I said yes , I we I explained why I wa I was asking the question , I said it was for my son , and er I said , but mine 's just a , a microwave I sa and he said , well he said they re the combination ones now he said are really you know , what you need . |
| 2 | Teresa 's on about erm a she were asking me if anybody 'd be interested into going on to higher er education after this ? |
| 3 | We 're er I was asked a question earlier on today erm how many assignments will I be looking after in any one time and I just said one . |
| 4 | Yes at the moment another time I was n't going to buy anything from Chile , and er I was asking the young man who was is this from Chile , oh I do n't want them . |
| 5 | Yes , well Bev was asking , I mean I was doing housework , oh , I was doing bits and pieces you know , and er getting me coat and all that and er she was asking questions and all that and Liz said I 'll pick you up at twenty past eleven , so Bev said alright then , so she come off the phone said she 'd go and have a look and apparently erm , it must of been yesterday if , if Liz is telling the truth she said to whoever are you going to do anything about this ? |
| 6 | And er I was too o old for call-up at the beginning of the war , well we had a car so er we were asked , anyone that had a car to volunteer for er A R P services you see ? |
| 7 | But erm the county did n't answer the er give us the clarification on the relationship between I twelve and I five erm that er we were asking for . |
| 8 | I understand there are problems er but as a general principle it does seem to me that it 's something that needs to be looked at and the minister has said that a lot of these matters will be dealt with by a statement of practice and er he was asked by the honourable gentleman , the member for South Hams I think , er er er what the status of er these people were . |
| 9 | To Tony was telling me that er he was asked that Walsall needed the money so he was asked to be transferred to Port Vale , which he did but er I think he was past his best and he , he 'd came down back here and played a couple of times with Port Vale , and er but erm like I say he was past his best . |
| 10 | Erm you were asked to look carefully at the music of the first two bars then write the music of bar three . |
| 11 | Erm we were asked by the managing director er a man called W P whom I had a great deal of respect for , because he was a , he was a design engineer by trade and , and craft . |
| 12 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 13 | Erm we were asked by Miss Whittaker to erm respond to her suggestion of an alternative wording . |
| 14 | Er so there will be er a loss to us there of about three hundred pounds because erm we were asking for something to be made and therefore I think I would say quite rightly but in view of this experience perhaps never again , er made some advance contribution , you know to the cost or made some , gave some money in advance blah blah blah . |
| 15 | So what 's your next erm they were asking on the . |
| 16 | Cos erm they were asking today if they could come and see granny 's new T V and |