Example sentences of "[verb] i what [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I met the then Chairman of the AAA , Bill Ferguson , who asked me what the problem was all about .
2 She asked me what the time was .
3 My mum come up to see me and asked me what the bandage was for and I told her I 'd burnt myself .
4 I think this was the day you asked me what the quality of life was .
5 Mass attendance , erm , mentioned the hospital , he asked me what the hospital was like you know , whether it was acute or , or whatever erm
6 But , in fact , as I pointed out the minute you told me what the letters said , there was n't one line there to connect them with Chambers .
7 Nobody had told me what a cinema or a film was , and certainly nothing about the concept of an animated cartoon ; and I was taken into the largest enclosed space I 'd ever seen , into a crowd of strangers , put on a seat , and the lights went out .
8 He 's told me what a deadweight you were to him .
9 ‘ Locally , both the Teesside TEC voluntary sector group and managing agents in Cleveland have told me what the effects of these blinkered policies will be in the coming year .
10 ‘ Not until you 've told me what the hell happened to make you trigger shy . ’
11 Give me what the others want nothing to do with .
12 Tell me what the date is , tell me what the new lands are where once Lac Léman was . ’
13 She said : ‘ Tell me what the story is and I 'll tell you whether your contact is any good . ’
14 Tell me what the club was like when you first took over . ’
15 actually tell me what the cash flow is ?
16 ‘ Now , ’ he said , ‘ tell me what the hell happened in there . ’
17 ‘ So start talking , tell me what the hell 's got into you !
18 Tell me what the deal is . ’
19 ‘ At least tell me what the book is .
20 Tell me what the rule is , for the usage of the s's .
21 His profound sense of fatalism becomes apparent as early as the last paragraph of his very first speech : ‘ … every few years there is still a case , and as the parties tell me what the trouble is , … the thought comes in that … another lawyer , quite differently dressed , heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’
22 Is he asking me what the solution is ?
23 ‘ Khan , if you are asking me what the Kha-Khan 's intentions are , then I have to tell you that he has not confided in me . ’
24 Everybody asks me what a statistician does .
25 The girl asks me what the woman is singing about .
26 I 'd rather been hoping Lewis or Verity might have asked me what the file contained by now , and what I was doing , but — annoyingly — neither of them had .
27 And two , I will say , how can you , with activity , can you tell me what a level two child should be doing ?
28 Can you tell me what a planting of a quick is ?
29 ‘ Could you tell me what the cairn is for , on the hill outside town ? ’
30 Can you please tell me what the rules are as regards holding cash , as I have recently taken out a personal equity plan ?
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