Example sentences of "i ask [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought they were going to throw me out while the car was moving and I asked them to stop . |
| 2 | Soon it was just clumps and permanently itchy so I asked them to shave it off . |
| 3 | I asked them to return it as soon as they had done . ’ |
| 4 | They were all in their early twenties when I asked them to join Bègles ’ , said Appriou . |
| 5 | I could n't tell what was happening so I asked them to move so I could take the coal into Granny 's house . |
| 6 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 7 | When I last met them in September , I asked them to consider urgently three specific point : first , the introduction of visible vehicle identification numbers ; secondly , the fitting of deadlocking across all their vehicle ranges ; and , most important , the development of an effective vehicle immobilising device that would make it impossible to move a car even if it had been broken into . |
| 8 | Now I asked them to work in pairs or individually to find the arrangements of ten fences . |
| 9 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 10 | But I asked them to photograph those documents which we found and they do n't want to do it , so that 's up to them . |
| 11 | When I rang up to say I were coming I asked them did they want Easter eggs or did they want fa er a box of chocolates or bars of chocolate we |
| 12 | Before anyone commenced the diet I asked them to seek approval from their G.P. There was no doubt from the comments I received that their doctors were delighted with the format of the diet and were equally delighted with the results it achieved . |
| 13 | One hundred ladies kindly volunteered and eight weeks later I asked them to complete a lengthy questionnaire . |
| 14 | I asked what upsets her most of all . |
| 15 | I asked what had happened — ‘ Had their been a shuffle ? — or had one of us died in the night ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I asked what do you want ? |
| 17 | ‘ I asked what happened . ’ |
| 18 | Patting his cheeks with his handkerchief all the time ( till I asked him to stop it ) . |
| 19 | Erm , and I asked him to stop and come down the isle . |
| 20 | I asked him to desist not from his prayers but from his actions because I felt sure that God wanted to prepare the Anglican priest for his death . |
| 21 | I asked him to describe what the atmosphere in the dressing room is like with the rest of the team . |
| 22 | However , he already knew Joy and Alan , and the kettle was boiling , so I asked him to sit down , and would he like to join us in a coffin ? |
| 23 | Once when I was in design and technology class , I asked him to give me a screw and he said , ‘ See me after school and I 'll give you one . ’ |
| 24 | I asked him to give me a list of potentially commercial sites in the city , based on his experience of sales and demands . |
| 25 | I asked him to give me an image for Love , something I could see , |
| 26 | He said that there is regular demand for shots of Sydney , and therefore it would be worth my while making a detour to extend my portfolio , I asked him to give me a list of potentially commercial sites in the city , based on his experience of sales and of demands . |
| 27 | However , I was not prepared just to accept him with no experience at all and I asked him to give me some sort of evidence about the amount of flying he had done . |
| 28 | In the later stages of Metaltronix I had a guy work for me who had a tube engineering degree , but that kind of knowledge still does n't teach you about designing — the times I asked him to design certain circuits and he 'd just stare at me ! |
| 29 | I asked him to wait . |
| 30 | supervision out which is what I asked him to do . |