Example sentences of "[vb past] asked what " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
| 2 | Well , anyway , thought Julia , she could n't be worse at waiting than she was at typing , so she 'd asked what the rate of pay was . |
| 3 | When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased . |
| 4 | Gregson had asked what it was about . |
| 5 | In mid-fury Edward had asked what day of the week she imagined it was , for at the time , in the highly coloured world of the argument , this detail had become of supreme importance . |
| 6 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
| 7 | He had asked what measures were being taken to protect the interests of staff in the run-up to reform in Wales in 1995 . |