Example sentences of "asked [subord] [pron] could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boys asked if we could pay them some ‘ small money ’ to buy pens for schools . |
| 2 | When I asked if they could make me an identical one trimmed with black fur and beading instead , they were horrified but they agreed in the end . ’ |
| 3 | I asked if they could give me something for the pain . |
| 4 | Gabriel knocked at the door and asked if they could give him a bed for the night and a bite to eat . |
| 5 | And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually ! |
| 6 | One of two women in the car asked if they could help me . |
| 7 | I called my mum and dad and asked if they could take me to the hospital . |
| 8 | He just asked if he could hide it in the museum . |
| 9 | The journey to Calcutta took some hours , and when we arrived the Army met us and wanted to put us all in to some barracks , but I protested and rang up the Bishop , Foss Westcott , and asked if he could advise me what to do as Margaret by this time was very ill . |
| 10 | One asked if he could kiss her and Enya said , ‘ Yeah , okay ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ My lipstick fell out of my bag , you see , and he trod on it — not on the carpet , thank heaven ! — so he picked up the mangled remains and asked if he could get me another . |
| 12 | Some wag asked if he could prove it ! |
| 13 | Middlesbrough co-promoter Tim Swales said : ‘ Sumner asked if he could rejoin us . |
| 14 | When he asked if he could see her again the next day , she would not have dreamed of declining ; they saw each other for about a fortnight , and her enthusiasm for him increased with each meeting , though he said not a word of any interest in the whole two weeks . |
| 15 | ‘ Going back to that Monday — I had introduced my secretary to you and , up until the point where he asked if he could drive you back to your hotel , I had n't given any thought as to how you would get back there . ’ |
| 16 | I had not been there long when an officer appeared , shook my hand and asked if he could help me in any way . |
| 17 | Except that I rang up James Barlow , Jenny 's friend , and asked if he could help me . " |
| 18 | For a while she hovered in the doorway of a film company building and watched the steady but sparse traffic of shoppers , office messengers and business types who were using the pathways through the square 's railed park as a shortcut on their way to somewhere else … but then a gold-braided security guard stepped out and asked if he could help her , and it was clear that she was being told to move on . |
| 19 | So he asked if he could publish it on the morning of press day ; appearing in one paper in London would not undermine the American publicity . |
| 20 | ‘ Mr Cunningham asked if you could spare him a few minutes before leaving the hotel . |
| 21 | One day one of the German officers stationed in Fontanellato , an Oberleutnant Bauer , called on me and asked if I could give him Italian lessons . |
| 22 | Anyway , she told me to bring someone so I phoned and asked if I could bring you . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I was n't too keen on two or three of the swear words , ’ he said , ‘ and I asked if I could leave them out . |
| 24 | and either pay it all in one I asked if I could pay it do so much , you know so much a year |
| 25 | I asked if I could read them . |
| 26 | A year beforehand , Chudnovsky , who was a collector from Leningrad , and a very well-known one , had been to see me and asked if I could help him . |
| 27 | Some months ago a gang of local youngsters asked if I could help them in this direction . |
| 28 | ‘ I would n't go without Brian so I asked if I could have him buried beside my parents in Scotland . |
| 29 | I asked if she could show me his works from the Twenties . |
| 30 | ‘ Take it , ’ the woman had replied when Loretta asked if she could borrow it . |