Example sentences of "ask [pers pn] if he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A young man came along on a bicycle and asked me if he could help but I refused his offer . |
| 2 | And we had a neighbour named and he 'd worked at E T N S all his life and had some influence and I mentioned it to him and he asked me , asked me if he could find me a job . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm asking you if he relaxed when he was here . |
| 4 | They 'd most likely be asking him if he 'd seen him . |
| 5 | His mother had spoken to Mr McDoodle , who owned one of the few horse and carts in the village , asking him if he could take Endill to the nearest train station which was over the hills in the town of Moorloch . |
| 6 | We used to pull his leg about this , asking him if he could remember which one it was tonight , and it goes without saving that the two girls were not even on nodding terms with each other . |
| 7 | A few days earlier , I remember asking him if he would collect the wines from the cellar for that evening 's function . |
| 8 | Nobody thought of asking him if he 'd like custody . |
| 9 | There was no point in asking him if he would like the curtains drawn . |
| 10 | He also described a call he had made later to his friend Hartmut Mayer of the BKA asking him if he knew how the bomb had been put aboard Flight 103 . |
| 11 | It was my idea , asking him if he 'd like to lend a hand on doing what recording can be done on a job like this . |
| 12 | I just kept asking him if he was going to kill me . |
| 13 | that time he took this fridge and you kept asking him if he were selling it cos w it were empty were n't it , and he says no it 's a load of rubbish . |
| 14 | It took him four or five visits before he asked her if he could unstrap what he called his piece of timber . |
| 15 | Surkov , lying on the bed , asked her if he should answer it . |
| 16 | I asked her if he 'd returned home and she told me to mind my own business . |
| 17 | Shah said he wrote to Knighton when his offer to buy out the shareholding of United 's chief executive , Martin Edwards , was first made public , and received a phone call last Friday from Knighton , who asked him if he wanted to participate in the deal . |
| 18 | It appeared that the officer had been admiring the fish swimming about in the water of the Orne when a Royal Marine Commando asked him if he would like some for his supper . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He was slightly deaf and it was only natural that when Jane asked him if he liked Dylan Thomas , he replied : ‘ Gin and tonic ? |
| 21 | They asked him if he was English , then exchanged looks with each other . |
| 22 | She asked him if he would lift the bicycle over a stile for her , she not having realized there was a stile to be crossed when she had embarked over the fields by herself . |
| 23 | I asked him if he was okay . |
| 24 | After Geography Endill bumped into Mcduff who asked him if he was going to try another escape . |
| 25 | Laplace was looking through his telescope , and Napoleon asked him if he could recognise the Deity through it . |
| 26 | I wound down the window and asked him if he knew where the dolmen was . |
| 27 | In 1976 Dave was supposed to be caddying for Fernandez at the French Open , but Vicente had broken his finger , so he was without a bag — until Manuel Ballesteros asked him if he would like to carry for his brother Seve . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ? |