Example sentences of "asked [pron] [Wh det] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat at this very table and , when he was gone , your two creatures came and asked me what he said . |
| 2 | But on his first arrival at court , when the Queen herself asked him what he desired , he bowed over her olive hand and , with his lips a millimetre away from the great ring of her power , murmured a single , dangerous word : |
| 3 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 4 | I asked him what he had done to land himself in jail . |
| 5 | ‘ I asked him what he had in mind . |
| 6 | I asked him what he had told the Department of Trade and Industry , and he said that he had said nothing . |
| 7 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ No , I saw the bruise when he came back to the shop on Tuesday evening and I asked him what he 'd done to himself . |
| 9 | Nigger asked him what he meant , but Terry would n't be drawn , he just tapped the side of his nose and winked . |
| 10 | And when I asked him what he meant , he said irritably , ‘ Oh , do n't be more stupid than you need be . |
| 11 | When I asked him what he meant , all he replied was , ‘ It is a grave matter ’ . ’ |
| 12 | It seemed to me that this would be an interesting and upbeat note on which to finish our current serious on the theme of disasters , so I asked him what he meant by human betterment . |
| 13 | When he caught Steve he asked him what he thought he was up to Well , said Steve , my mum and dad have split up . |
| 14 | When Edwin Chadwick , the great English public health expert , was visiting Paris , he met the Emperor who asked him what he thought of the improvements in Paris , to which he replied : ‘ Sir , it was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble . |
| 15 | Once I asked him what he thought of the French system of criminal justice and he replied that during his career he had no time left over from practising our own system to study any other ( which I think is representative of the Bar as a whole ) . |
| 16 | Not one to miss a plug , I asked him what he thought of our latest issue . |
| 17 | To those who asked him what he thought of Hitler now , he replied , ‘ I think him a very fine fellow . ’ |
| 18 | Iain asked him what he thought the electronics were for . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not what you think I am , ’ and I asked him what he thought I believed him to be . |
| 20 | I asked him what he thought of Magritte the other day , and he thought I was talking about some girl in first year . |
| 21 | Last year the award was won by Ernie Acker at Charlbury station , and we asked him what he thought of the awards . |
| 22 | The policeman turned and spoke to the man and asked him what he wanted . |
| 23 | ‘ I noticed a man wandering around the garden a couple of hours ago and asked him what he wanted . |
| 24 | I asked him what he wanted and he hit me with a gin . ’ |
| 25 | I asked him what he wanted and he said , ‘ I 'll take a glass of rum . ’ |
| 26 | Well I , I , I asked him what he wanted for Christmas |
| 27 | I asked him what he did , and what principles guided him . |
| 28 | . I asked him what he did with himself in Marseilles all day long ? |
| 29 | I was in a wine bar the other day and it was just before the opening of Stanstead , a few weeks before , and I met a chap in there who worked in the airport and we were just in conversation and he said , asked him what he did , and he said , ‘ I 'm basically on temporary contract preparing for the Queen coming to open the airport . ’ |
| 30 | They asked him what he missed the most , he said the birds . |