Example sentences of "[conj] i ask him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 2 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 3 | ‘ I showed him my brooch — the one you gave me for my birthday — and I asked him about his birthday . |
| 4 | And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter . |
| 5 | Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion . |
| 6 | He wanted to rush round straight away but I asked him to be patient . |
| 7 | ‘ Because I asked him about it this morning , when we were both up here , sitting on that bank . |
| 8 | When I ask him for telephone numbers of the people who know him best , he gives me the numbers of Deneuve , Shrimpton and Helvin before Jack Nicholson , Brian Clarke and Julian Schnabel . |
| 9 | When I asked him for his reaction , he sat hunched behind a table in his little palace , his head hanging down , his half-moon spectacles on the end of his nose . |
| 10 | But when I asked him for permission he just agreed . |
| 11 | In Oxford , the voice of the gnomic Professor Sammy Finer , a declared political agnostic , rose a full octave when I asked him about it : ‘ It simply is n't true any longer that merit will out . |
| 12 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 13 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 14 | ‘ When I asked him about it he told me : ‘ Leave me alone — I 'm working . ’ |
| 15 | When I asked him about sheets , he said , I buy them new , tell me when you want some more . |
| 16 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 17 | When I asked him about his nose he actually growled at me . |