Example sentences of "[pron] ask [pers pn] if [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 So I asked them if they needed anyone to help out on Saturdays The guy behind the counter said , we do as it happens but you 'll have to speak to Malcolm when he comes in .
2 I asked them if they were n't several billion years too late .
3 And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes .
4 Knowing a little of his circumstances by this time — at any rate , I knew what his job was — I asked him if he realised this would involve him in considerable expense .
5 I asked him if he was okay .
6 I asked him if he would teach John music , and explained the difficulty , as John wanted to know too soon and would not have the patience to practise .
7 I watched it done before , once , as a student , and it turned my stomach , and it was very distressing to me , and in the end Carrington was going to die , and he did die , but I asked him if he would do it my way .
8 And he does n't like my form of questioning , as when I asked him if he believed that the gates of heaven could only be opened by gold and silver keys ?
9 I asked him if he thought he would win any prizes ; he thought he would be lucky if he did .
10 I asked him if he considered the fusion tag to still be relevant …
11 ‘ The night before we were arrested , I had been to dinner with Nick Wells , and I asked him if he had heard anything , and he said : ‘ No , it 's all water under the bridge , I suppose . ’
12 There were crazies like Vittorio Brambilla : when I asked him if he raced in conditions like this , what about his wife and kids ?
13 When it was in the oven , I asked him if he 'd like me to clean up , wash the pastry board etc , and for the first time he let me .
14 I asked him if he thought there was a chance of this .
15 I asked him if he would like a video of the show and he said , ‘ No thanks , the experience was enough . ’
16 He laughed when I asked him if he was a clergyman .
17 I asked him if he or Tiare could let me see the ‘ inheritance ’ ; and I saw it . ’
18 I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner .
19 and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it .
20 I asked him if he had a fur-lined coat , he said as a matter of fact he had .
21 When he had explored the problem , I asked him if he could write down a number in the sequence and say which numbers were squared and added together to make it .
22 When it was over , I asked him if he would let me have a drive and ride with me .
23 I asked him if he would be prepared to assist .
24 One day I asked him if he knew Fanny 's young man , and he said he knew him as well as he knew himself ! ’
25 I asked him if he had posted the letter .
26 ‘ Then I ran into Matthew and I asked him if he 'd seen his uncle .
27 I asked him if he had any advice for me as I went to Rhodesia .
28 When I asked him if he had been involved in an accident , he shook his head .
29 And I asked him if he found his present abode conducive to the writing of poetry .
30 I asked him if he would be prepared to support the Government 's privatisation proposals , and he said : ’ I should be happy to do so , provided that the general public can apply for shares . ’
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