Example sentences of "ask he [Wh det] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | People kept asking him what he was doing on Uist ; Lewis was further north , ha ha . |
| 2 | And the man was asking him what he was er looking so mournful about and what . |
| 3 | The tourist sitting next to him asked him what they were . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a secret , ’ Nick said when she asked him what they were laughing about . |
| 5 | Watson said he asked him what he was talking about ; North brushed him off . |
| 6 | He is noted for possessing a ferocious intellectual curiosity — and when I asked him what he was reading while cruising across the Atlantic on Concorde , he said without flinching , Conversations with Isaiah Berlin . |
| 7 | Years later , in exile , his former tutor , Augustin Filon , found him leaning against a window of the house in Chislehurst and asked him what he was looking at . |
| 8 | Lili asked him what he was looking at . |
| 9 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 10 | So I asked him what he was up to and he said he was going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it , and then he pushed th " trolley in , and I went in after , and the mother began her howling and shrieking , and Will said , " Well , I 'll walk off and leave you to it . " |
| 11 | They stopped my client , asked him what he was there for , his name and address , the usual routine . |
| 12 | He only mentioned the gallery once more when Syl arrived , clapped him on the shoulder and asked him what he was up to now . |
| 13 | His friend kicked him in the ribs and asked him what he was doing down there . |
| 14 | I asked him what he was going to be . |
| 15 | I had n't caught too many tubes myself so I asked him what it was like in there . |
| 16 | But , when she suddenly discovered an urgent desire to know his name , she knew that she would only end up feeling foolish if she asked him what it was in this moment of parting . |
| 17 | When at last his parents find him sitting among the teachers in the Temple , they ask him what he is doing . |
| 18 | Ask to meet the interviewer and , if this request is granted , ask him what he is going to ask you . |
| 19 | Ask him what he 's saving for — is he worried about redundancy ? |
| 20 | ‘ Ask him what he 's done with the money ! |
| 21 | One can hardly go up to an admiral of the fleet and ask him what he was doing on the night of Friday the thirteenth . |
| 22 | So Moses asks him what it is for , and the shepherd replies , " This is God 's milk . " |
| 23 | He tried to duck under the ropes to come over to us , but gets stopped by a security man who asks him what he 's playing at . |
| 24 | Yer farvver 's never bin one ter talk much about 'is work but 'e clams up whenever I ask 'im what 'e 's bin doin'. 'E gets very tired too lately . |
| 25 | He began on a new plan and Endill tried to ask him what he was up to but every time he approached , Mould shouted , |
| 26 | I tried to ask him what he was talking about , but — ’ |
| 27 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 28 | We ventured to ask him what he was writing , and he replied that the trouble with being a publisher was that one was so absorbed in other people 's books as to have insufficient time and energy to devote to one 's own . |
| 29 | When finally a small boy was sent to ask him what he was up to , he replied : ‘ Here I am building the biggest , the best kiln Hua Xian has ever seen ’ . |