Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] asked [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I called him up one day and asked him how he was doing and he said things were pretty good , so I asked if he still wanted to do that album . |
| 2 | He had a bag with him , a small suitcase really , so I asked if he was off on a late holiday . |
| 3 | He gave her some more champagne and she asked if he had children . |
| 4 | Elizabeth had won the essay competition and was just about to stand up when Jessica got up and she walked up to Mr and she asked and he asked her what magazine she wanted for the year and she said Rock Seventeen Jessica knew what magazine Elizabeth wanted and she just said Rock Seventeen . |
| 5 | A hotel spokeswoman said : ‘ He booked in his family and we asked if he would do a turn . ’ |
| 6 | When I answered it , the hotel manager was there and he asked if he could have a discreet word with me . |
| 7 | It was n't until he asked if he could take some off that I realised he had got himself well wrapped up — with 24 articles of clothing , ’ said Taylor . |
| 8 | ‘ You must be joking , ’ a Russian friend said when I asked if he would watch the May Day parade on television . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | I met him two or three years later when I asked if he would make me a dress for the March of Dimes , using some peony pink silk that Winston brought back from China . |
| 11 | He returned with a symphonic battle piece , and when I asked if he realized the significance of the words he admitted he did not know what they meant ! ) |
| 12 | When he asked if he could take part , the gentlemen archers looked at him and at his bow and , thinking it doubtful he could hit anything at 100 yards , gave their permission if his father looked after him . |
| 13 | When he asked if he could see her again the next day , she would not have dreamed of declining ; they saw each other for about a fortnight , and her enthusiasm for him increased with each meeting , though he said not a word of any interest in the whole two weeks . |
| 14 | When he asked if he should fly out her answer had been a firm and uncompromising ‘ No ! ’ but now , as she glanced at Alain , she was not too sure if she had been wise . |