Example sentences of "[conj] i asked he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 2 | There was a nice-looking American at the next table , however , so I asked him whether he was a drug-fiend , dealing in human misery , in which case , I said , I 'd like some Ecstasy . |
| 3 | Jackie agreed , so I asked him why constructors like Mayer and Ecclestone so looked down on drivers . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | I reckoned it to be about nine months , so I asked him how long it had been . |
| 6 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 7 | ‘ He was simply unable to make the decision so I asked him , ‘ What do you want from your life ? ’ |
| 8 | He wanted to know why , so I asked him how much he knew about me . |
| 9 | I learned that he was going to London early on the following day , so I asked him to meet me before he went . |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 11 | We retired to bed a little more hopeful that some glimmer of light had been shown but , just before I fell asleep , I realised Benjamin had n't answered my question about disliking Vauban , so I asked him again . |
| 12 | Once I asked him when he slept . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 15 | He once said he thought inheritance should be banned and I asked him if that meant I should leave all our money to his brother ! ’ said his father . |
| 16 | ‘ The night before we were arrested , I had been to dinner with Nick Wells , and I asked him if he had heard anything , and he said : ‘ No , it 's all water under the bridge , I suppose . ’ |
| 17 | Soon after Bogie joined us and I asked him what was going on . |
| 18 | I made an excuse to call on our twelfth man and I asked him to tell our manager , Khalid Mahmood , what was going on . |
| 19 | I was reading with my five-year-old son David and I asked him : ‘ What do we get from cows ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I showed him my brooch — the one you gave me for my birthday — and I asked him about his birthday . |
| 21 | I asked him to go away after lunch and I asked him to go away after supper , and he went away both times . |
| 22 | And I asked him earlier today why he collected butterflies . |
| 23 | ‘ I am not what you think I am , ’ and I asked him what he thought I believed him to be . |
| 24 | ‘ Then I ran into Matthew and I asked him if he 'd seen his uncle . |
| 25 | Then I rang Pusey : it was time , I felt , that we had a conference , and I asked him to get hold of Seddon and , if possible , someone from his old acquaintances at the Foreign Office who would know about current politics in North and West Africa . |
| 26 | And I asked him , " These movies — they exist ? " |
| 27 | But erm , one of my neighbours works for A C A S and I asked him er , his opinion of the G M B , and he said good negotiators , hard negotiators , but very good at getting better conditions for their members and I think he , and certainly I knew before , that the G M B is one of the most progressive trade unions in this country and we 're very pleased to have them in Portsmouth . |
| 28 | And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter . |
| 29 | So anyway that was one of the reasons , when I found that Brothers was slowly going out of business , when I saw last in , and I asked him if er I could have this thing ? |
| 30 | And I asked him if he found his present abode conducive to the writing of poetry . |