Example sentences of "ask [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a friend asked me the car 's name I answered at once — Anastasia Fyodorovna Romanova , Princess of all the Russias . |
| 2 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 3 | People often asked me the time just to hear my voice so they could proclaim my gender to their friends . |
| 4 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
| 5 | Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England . |
| 6 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 7 | My grandson asked me the other morning , when was I gon na die ? |
| 8 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 9 | It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level . |
| 10 | I , he asked me the one , you know , we were on about this morning , the only one we looked at , fifty miles an hour and he asked me that one and I knew it . |
| 11 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 12 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 13 | One of the men was nervous , so the guard asked them the number of the car they were driving . |
| 14 | Adrian asked them the way to Woodbrook , then came back and told me that there was a ruined castle behind the shop . |
| 15 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 16 | I abruptly asked them the same question I had of Benjamin . |
| 17 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 18 | In his absence , I afterwards asked them the same questions , and they were able to explain quite adequately . |
| 19 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |
| 20 | Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 21 | I asked somebody the way out and she offered to show me . |
| 22 | He whistled after her and shouted a coarse word , whilst Beatrice looked down at him , unshaven and dishevelled , and asked who the big Sicilian was ( an insult , of course to an Italian ) . |
| 23 | The 40-year-old told one of the sisters if anyone asked who the father of her baby daughter was she should lie and say it was her boyfriend , Leeds Crown Court was told . |
| 24 | He 's done it , asked you The Big One , will you marry him ? |
| 25 | This what I asked you the other week . |
| 26 | Er , now , I asked you the table set have n't I ? |
| 27 | If those , all of those contract temps are regarded as full time people it looks like full time people are working overtime , which is why I asked you the question yesterday erm what 's the overtime bill for quotes alone . |
| 28 | Suddenly she knew the answer , even as she asked herself the question , and realised what she had to do . |
| 29 | A young man of shaven pate , E-X-P-L-O-I-T-E-D tattooed on his forehead , approaches me brandishing a splashing can of Carlsberg Special Brew and asking me the time . |
| 30 | I 'm my own man and that 's very important in these times , even if you have n't had the problems I 've had , and you have n't , because that 's perfectly obvious , you 're sitting there and asking me the questions . |