Example sentences of "[coord] ask [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were amused by the way she consumed endless bowls of ice-cream or asked them to make her special snacks in between the normal meals . |
| 2 | I had a number of telephone conversations with him , and an interim letter dated 7 January in which he suggested , or asked me to suggest several possible dates . |
| 3 | Mr Jordan 's advice to any woman who thinks her doctor has behaved unprofessionally or asked her to do something humiliating is to refuse straightaway and report the incident . |
| 4 | He had n't explained what he wanted , or asked her to call back , but Loretta 's resolution wavered momentarily . |
| 5 | ‘ And almost every night I 'm woken by the sound of Graham trying to scratch himself or asking me to scratch him . |
| 6 | This thought , of why Jasper consented to let her sleep here , instead of going up to another room , or asking her to go , made her mind swirl , as if it — her mind was nauseous . |
| 7 | trying to establish whether the young person is ‘ really gay ’ , or asking them to prove it ; |
| 8 | I mean we ca n't go into the private market and expect them or asking them to provide houses erm affordable houses as I say the question is what 's an affordable house , who 's got the money to buy the house I would presume , but obviously we know the situation is it 's the lower rent of market , the lower income groups and the unemployed that are suffering very much reasonable accommodation at a rent or at a price they can afford and I reckon this is what hopefully the government was after to say whether we 'll put in our policy and hope that we can get things . |
| 9 | The patient may stand on the hemiplegic leg , while the therapist moves his other foot into different positions , or asks him to move the foot . |
| 10 | The traditional form of interaction with the user is purely through dialogue in which written messages present him with immediately available choices , or ask him to supply values for parameters in the program ; this approach has grown from individual tutorial CAI . |
| 11 | You can plan your own trip from there , or ask us to help . |
| 12 | A stranger followed 26year-old Janice Butler into a lift at Aintree Hospital Trust 's site in Walton , Liverpool , and asked her to push the button for his floor . |
| 13 | A black boy with extensions on his hair walked over to her and asked her to dance . |
| 14 | The Pizza Eater took on Rachaela , gave her a red dress and a pale green apron , and asked her to put up her hair . |
| 15 | Whilst Zborowski was still in the south of France Modigliani met Madame Zborowska in the street and asked her to pose for him . |
| 16 | The following afternoon Heather called for Shirley , who was in her Six and who lived two doors away from her , and asked her to go with her to Olinton Farm to get some butter . |
| 17 | After a long session trying on clothes , she was walking out with her purchases when a man tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to go back into the shop . |
| 18 | ‘ After a few weeks he told her he was going home , and asked her to go with him . |
| 19 | He was away that weekend hang-glinding , and asked her to go with him . |
| 20 | During the 23-minute chat he called her by her pet name ‘ Squidgy ’ , told her he loved her and asked her to blow kisses down the phone to him . |
| 21 | as if she felt her sister 's gaze , Susan swung round on the piano-stool and asked her to sing come carols . |
| 22 | He came to see her every evening and asked her to recount the events of that day . |
| 23 | One of the interviewers went into a house yesterday and asked her to take off all her clothes ! |
| 24 | I showed the article to my wife — a mathematician — and asked her to remind me about ‘ eigen analysis of the covariance matrix [ z ] ’ etc , but I gather that such analysis is not exactly commonplace or entirely obvious ! |
| 25 | After checking that the proper procedures had been followed and that the incident had been fully recorded , Rachel contacted Louise Raymond , the factory welfare officer , and asked her to telephone the man 's wife and inform her that he was being admitted to hospital . |
| 26 | Then he pulled her towards him and asked her to give him a kiss , but she pulled away quickly when she saw Mum 's scowl . |
| 27 | In his mind he spoke another girl 's name ; a girl long dead , and asked her to forgive him . |
| 28 | I phoned Annie and asked her to cancel both performances today , and those on Monday and Tuesday . |
| 29 | He wrote to Mary admitting the ‘ ardent attachment ’ he had so long felt for her , and asked her to confirm a rumour that she too was now engaged . |
| 30 | With this in mind , we searched out one of Britain 's leading exponents of the Gothic bodice-ripper and asked her to inject some life into the first ascent of the Eiger 's north face . |