Example sentences of "ask [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You asked me whether I thought we could trust the boy . |
| 2 | On the way to the station we heard a kerbstone musician playing the concertina , and Eliot , struck by the tune , asked me if I knew what it was . |
| 3 | ‘ No , ’ she said , then she asked me if I knew anything about them . |
| 4 | He asked me if I knew anything about ley lines and I confessed my ignorance . |
| 5 | This letter is going to be devoted to my affairs in connection with Edward … the other day he asked me if I thought you would care to go for a walk into the country somewhere . |
| 6 | Well I did think about it but the Careers Officer advised me no cos he thought that you have to be really really good before y get in and he asked me if I thought I was really good and I said that well I was not too bad but and he said that he thought it would be better to concentrate on something else . |
| 7 | ‘ I did an interview with the Utah Review , this student paper , and at the end they asked me if I had anything I wanted to add . |
| 8 | He saw the radio propped on the little stool and asked me if I played it while I worked . |
| 9 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 10 | They asked me if I wanted me P forty five framed or unframed . |
| 11 | At first they asked me if I wanted my mum to go out but I said No , but when they started asking me all those sorts of questions they asked me again and I said Yes . |
| 12 | ‘ He asked me if I wanted it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Nobody asked you if you wanted anything in the shop . |
| 15 | He taunted me , asking me if I knew what was going to happen to me on my wedding night . |
| 16 | And the cops standing there asking me if I knew anything and all the time it 's his gear they 're looking at . |
| 17 | I know where you watched it , I 'm asking you when you watched it . |
| 18 | Yes , why I am asking you or I did I say |
| 19 | It would have been no use asking him whether he thought there was a unifying purpose in life , whether it could really be chance that an animal so small that it could n't be seen by the naked eye could die millions of years ago in the depths of the sea and be resurrected by science to prove a man innocent or guilty . |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher later parried more questions when the Liberal Democrat Mr Charles Kennedy ( Ross , Cromarty and Skye ) asked her whether she felt her ‘ diminishing credibility ’ would be salvaged if she followed the advice of the former chairman of the Tory backbench 1922 Committee , Sir Edward du Cann , that a leadership challenge would clear the air . |
| 21 | I asked her whether she felt she could walk past them , giving them as wide a berth as the width of the pavement would allow . |
| 22 | I asked her if she knew who William was but she always said no . |
| 23 | Sarah was watching and listening so I asked her if she thought they were all the same . |
| 24 | When I started to touch her in a sexual way I asked her if she liked it . |
| 25 | I asked her if she wanted me to go with her but she said no . |
| 26 | The Master of Magdalene asked him whether he found it uncomfortable to wear the received garments of a bishop . |
| 27 | No , we asked him and he said it was with his work mates |
| 28 | I asked him if he thought he would win any prizes ; he thought he would be lucky if he did . |
| 29 | I asked him if he thought there was a chance of this . |
| 30 | And I asked him if he found his present abode conducive to the writing of poetry . |