Example sentences of "i ask [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E loves Rachel an' 'e 'd give me the top brick off the chimney if I asked 'im , but 'e 's a worrier . |
| 2 | Anyway , I asked 'im what 'e done in the war an' 'e told me it was no concern o' mine . |
| 3 | So I asked them if they needed anyone to help out on Saturdays The guy behind the counter said , we do as it happens but you 'll have to speak to Malcolm when he comes in . |
| 4 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 5 | I asked them , ‘ How much rehearsal do I get ? ’ |
| 6 | Old hands from the music business — usually loquacious if invited to reminisce — were struck by collective amnesia when I asked them about Dury . |
| 7 | Addressing questions to a class of primary school children in a rural school at the time of the Passover , I asked them about places in the Bible where there were sheep . |
| 8 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 9 | So I asked them . |
| 10 | I asked them if they were n't several billion years too late . |
| 11 | One hundred ladies kindly volunteered and eight weeks later I asked them to complete a lengthy questionnaire . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They were all in their early twenties when I asked them to join Bègles ’ , said Appriou . |
| 15 | I asked them , and this is what they told me . |
| 16 | I could n't tell what was happening so I asked them to move so I could take the coal into Granny 's house . |
| 17 | I asked them who this mythical creature was , but each time they just said , " You 'll see when you meet him . " |
| 18 | And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes . |
| 19 | Now I asked them to work in pairs or individually to find the arrangements of ten fences . |
| 20 | Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered . |
| 21 | When I asked them about it they all said : ‘ Oh , you 've had cats all your life , you wo n't get it ’ ’ . |
| 22 | We did not promise ; but before we went back I asked them what had happened to the prisoner who had looked so funny escaping on a mule . |
| 23 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 24 | I asked them . |
| 25 | I asked them where they were going . |
| 26 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 27 | So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath . |
| 28 | I asked them to return it as soon as they had done . ’ |
| 29 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 30 | 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 . |