Example sentences of "ask him [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was attacked after asking him to move from the touchline during an amateur game at Gillingham , Kent . |
| 2 | Once in her suite of rooms she sat down at a little Louis Quinze escritoire , its pale grey panels painted with carnations and pinks , and wrote a short letter to her faithless lover , asking him to call on her urgently at the embassy at eleven the next morning . |
| 3 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 4 | Chris [ Stocks ] was a little surprised to say the least when he arrived home from his holiday to be told that The sun newspaper had been trying to contact him , asking him to go to London to play a practical joke on the king of practical jokers Chris Evans . |
| 5 | ‘ For 10 minutes they attempted to engage Anthony in conversation before explicitly asking him to work for and provide information to them . |
| 6 | There was no point in asking him to practise on his parents or his sister as , although still in evidence , his stammer was far less noticeable with members of his own family . |
| 7 | He touched his right hand to his forehead , lips and chest , and without a word presented a note to Huy , from Taheb , asking him to come to her immediately . |
| 8 | One was from the editor , regretting that there were no vacancies , the other was from the news editor , asking him to come to Dublin immediately for an interview . |
| 9 | The group also wrote to US President Carter asking him to intervene in the dispute . |
| 10 | Dutta said jewel merchant Guppy asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian company . |
| 11 | Ishan Dutta said Darius Guppy , best man to Princess Diana 's brother Charles in 1989 , phoned him in Bombay and asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian jewel company . |
| 12 | Cricket chairman Bob Gale asked him to put on a shirt bearing the sponsors name while photographs were being taken and Ramprakash asked whether that was a direct order . |
| 13 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 14 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 15 | Before he left , the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline asked him to report on the treatment of convicts in Van Dieman 's Land . |
| 16 | Former Cray Research Inc chairman John Rollwagen has withdrawn his name from further consideration for the number two post at the US Commerce Department after the Securities & Exchange Commission asked him to participate in an insider trading probe centring on sale of shares in Cray Computer Corp ahead of that company 's announcement that it had lost its only Cray 3 order . |
| 17 | We gave the aircraft keys to our new friend , Ronnie Bala , from the Flobamor Hotel and asked him to watch over it . |
| 18 | After consultation with the ward staff of the hospital where he was , and with the speech therapist , I drew a small house , his , and a large building , an old peoples ' home , and asked him to point to where he wanted to go . |
| 19 | It was at Mroueh 's clinic that Waite met a group of Hezbollah members who asked him to go with them in November . |
| 20 | She promised Louis all the money she had earned , and asked him to go to his cousin who would contact the SOE reseau . |
| 21 | I asked him to go to the shed and take all my kites away and burn them , which he duly did , in a hollow now called Kite Pyre Dell . |
| 22 | Mr Taylor claimed Murray asked him to go to Carlisle to get him some ‘ gear ’ and after some pestering , he agreed . |
| 23 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |
| 24 | Convena did all his work and they asked him to go to London you know , there 's some was on years ago so he goes to the headquarters and he said he just could n't believe it , he turned on him and said you 're a shallow bloody hypocrite he said ! |
| 25 | A man once asked him to pray for him . |
| 26 | Now this short note cruelly dashed his hopes : the mysterious writer apologised for not meeting him but asked him to wait amongst the ancient ruins to the north-west of the Tower . |
| 27 | I went up to him and gushed at him for about twenty minutes , told him we were making an album , asked him to sing on it and he said , ‘ Sure . ’ |
| 28 | Gabellah , Muzorewa 's right hand Man — knowing Caux and MRA — asked him to serve on his executive . |
| 29 | A partner in her firm of solicitors knew Lord Aldington , who was then the chairman of Sun Alliance Insurance , which handled the case ; and asked him to look at it . |
| 30 | I also asked him to look at the Twyford Down plan with a view to having a tunnel under the Down rather than a cutting . |