Example sentences of "[conj] ask i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or ask me to ? ’ |
| 2 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
| 3 | At noon Sir Michael Adeane rang up and asked me to be at the Palace at 2 o'clock . |
| 4 | A surly man stepped from a trailer doorway and asked me for money . |
| 5 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not used to some bloody apprentice waltzing into my house and asking me about my private affairs — ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes the English Catholics write to me and ask me for help , and sometimes I write to them . |
| 8 | When you 've read it come and ask me for the disk and I 'll lend it to you . |
| 9 | And er anyway he come and ask me for a dance he did he goes , I 'm not much of dancer we did that one you know , what they call it ? |
| 10 | Mrs Mrs rang me up and ask me about the one |
| 11 | Michael : It 's like once the man ( referring to the teacher ) come in the class , and ask me in front of the class , ‘ Why me coffee coloured ’ , he say , ‘ How come Wallace dark , and Kennedy black and Kevin a bit browner ? |
| 12 | Claris looks out from under her limp-brimmed woollen hat and asks me for an orange with a charming broken-toothed smile . |
| 13 | ‘ Thoo 's walked 'ome from chapel together every Sunday for a couple o' years and now , when 'e does t'decent thing and asks me for thi 'and , thoo 's refusing . ’ |
| 14 | And the best load of hay — he 'd come out and ask me at the finish . |
| 15 | So I started to get people to come in and ask me to specifically teach them stuff that was on my records . |
| 16 | " Sam here 's just been an' asked me to be his wife , " she said . |
| 17 | ‘ I could n't tell you much about Liverpool 's players these days but ask me about Uxbridge 's outside-right and I 'll give you a Dimbleby lecture — if you can stay awake long enough , ’ he jokes . |
| 18 | But ask me about Boy George 's first time on the show — looking gorgeous in a dress , with make-up and ribbons through his dreadlock extensions — and I can still remember the fevered speculation about his ambiguous sexuality that gripped my school the next day . |