Example sentences of "ask if [pron] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day before we finished mixing ‘ UF Orb ’ , Robert Fripp phoned and asked if we wanted any guitaring on the album … ’ |
| 2 | He asked if we wanted to watch him feed the birds . |
| 3 | So I asked if we wanted anything ? |
| 4 | Like a scene from a pantomime , he asked if they wanted a single currency and to have other countries interfering in Britain 's immigration controls . |
| 5 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 6 | Once , the doorkeeper popped his head out and asked if they wanted to hand in autograph books . |
| 7 | He stopped when he saw them and asked if they wanted to come with him . |
| 8 | So I asked if they wanted anything and she said a bed at the cottage hospital |
| 9 | I asked if he wanted a drink . |
| 10 | After a moment 's pause , Julia asked if he wanted her to go to the telegraph office for him . |
| 11 | ‘ Mrs Wright asked if I wanted a lift home , then she went to that house , the one in the photograph . ’ |
| 12 | An upper-class homosexual-looking man with white hair and glittering eyes came up to me and asked if I wanted to go to a Black Mass . |
| 13 | When I said she did n't , he rang for his chauffeur and told me he was going to see her and asked if I wanted to go with him . |
| 14 | Eventually I went along to the British Association of Psychotherapists , where I was assessed and asked if I wanted to see a male or a female therapist . |
| 15 | My social worker who gave me advice asked if I wanted adoption or fostering , and I said fostering ( it was a white family ) . |
| 16 | The interest of the BBC 's Heart of the Matter was triggered by Newsnight and that , in turn , caught the attention of a researcher on Wogan , Mandy Nixon , who asked if I wanted to appear on the programme . |
| 17 | Mandeville still sulked in the hall whilst the old beldames in Southgate 's chamber cackled with laughter and asked if I wanted them to wash me ? |
| 18 | ‘ Only because I could n't work out how you were doing it , ’ I said , and she laughed some more and asked if I wanted to join her friends . |
| 19 | ‘ I could n't understand why the front door would not open and this young fellow appeared and asked if I wanted any help . |
| 20 | I was soaked from lying in manky bog-like horrids , stalking some half-witted bird around lava lagoons , and John asked if I want tea . |
| 21 | She sat down without a word and shook her head when Whitlock asked if she wanted coffee . |
| 22 | Plummer called through and asked if she wanted a drink . |
| 23 | These funny-looking blokes just turned up on the doorstep with rolls of carpet over their shoulders asking if we wanted to buy them . |
| 24 | I recently wrote to all Second Division clubs asking if they wanted to retain terracing and every reply to date says yes . |
| 25 | Cos I , I were asking if they wanted a baked tatie and that and we stood waiting for them and you noticed on sack |
| 26 | Tory vice-chairman Andrew Mitchell has written to all candidates asking if they want to remain on the list and requesting a new CV . |
| 27 | ‘ I wish , ’ said Douglas Hurd , with all the authority of a member of Pop , ‘ that Archer would not go round his wretched parties asking if one wanted ‘ some Krug ’ . |
| 28 | I was only asking if you wanted any assistance . ’ |
| 29 | So I take my time , not asking if he wants Cellophane gift-wrapping but just doing it really slowly and then I say I done the VAT wrong . |
| 30 | His dad who was always popping in asking if anyone wanted to come down the pub — he was always off to the pub — also wrote the lyrics to our first song , ‘ Scarface ’ They were truly horrendous : ‘ Scarface , scarface , scarred from ear to ear , Scarface , the girls do n't even care . |