Example sentences of "asked [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also it was hard to know what to say to Anne — that 's my wife — when she asked each evening ‘ How was your day ? ’ |
| 2 | As we descended through the darkness into Cuzco on an endless series of switchbacks , their daughter asked each of us to sing a song for her from our own countries . |
| 3 | Using the deliberately open ended trigger sentence , we then asked each student to take two minutes , working alone , to identify one ‘ good ’ factor from their own personal experience of learning on their course . |
| 4 | Interpreting Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson 's ideas literally , Whitaker asked each of his ‘ historical ’ authors to include sequences with famous figures of the past : Nero , Napoleon , Marco Polo and so on . |
| 5 | Alexander the Great knew this intuitively when , himself having been wounded in the thigh , he walked round his wounded men and asked each to talk about his experience in the battle and how his wound had been received . |
| 6 | ‘ What sort of people kill innocent little children ? ’ people asked each other , and men flocked to join up . |
| 7 | After we had docked , a representative of Inflot , the Russian equivalent of Trinity House , apologetically asked each of us to sign more documents . |
| 8 | Who , they asked each other , was this newcomer , who had succeeded where so many others had failed ? |
| 9 | They gawped at Min and asked each other what on earth it was . |
| 10 | In an attempt to prevent this slow creep the department asked each local office to set a maximum upper weekly limit for fees in their area . |
| 11 | The chairman asked each candidate to give a one sentence reason why people should vote for them . |
| 12 | Then we sat down for a rest under a hedge , and Dana asked that typically American question : ‘ Do you want to talk about it ? ’ |
| 13 | I felt very important when I asked that . |
| 14 | MH : I remember somebody told me that a member of the public asked that question and was told it could be either five minutes or 40 years ! |
| 15 | ‘ Tell me about Eve 's mother and father , ’ Benny asked that night . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , we asked that question to Redd Harvest of the T-H-R agency as the Op was on her way to face a cadre of the Trap Door Spiders . ’ |
| 17 | So the reason I asked that question is because I wanted to see if you were already thinking like an archaeologist . |
| 18 | But , you see , I asked that question , the final one , the only one that mattered , a long time after . |
| 19 | 16–2–1910 The Moderator again asked that application should be made for leave to call a colleague and successor . |
| 20 | The trustees asked that Parliament should not confer such powers on them . |
| 21 | Erm , paragraph four erm , outlines there is a gap after these new guidelines of six hundred and seventy one thousand , and to bridge that gap , the P and R asked that er , the Fire and Rescue Service identify a hundred thousand pounds of sur of reductions from its budget . |
| 22 | I asked that . |
| 23 | I asked that question , it has not been answered . |
| 24 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor . |
| 25 | Margrida asked that evening as Ashley returned to the drawing-room . |
| 26 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in t any more questions ladies and gentlemen ? |
| 27 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour and asked that Dodman be sent for psychiatric help . |
| 28 | It was Andrew who asked that |
| 29 | The girl asked that man a thing that he . |
| 30 | One could go on and pick many other scriptures , you know in the erm the New Testament not only were there those three questions that we mentioned earlier on about salvation , but there are three unanswered questions in the New Testament in Mark chapter eight , Jesus asked that question of which there is no answer , for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and looses his sole or what shall a man or a woman give in exchange for their soul , Jesus did n't try and answer , there is no answer to that question , then again in , in Hebrews chapter three , er chapter two and verse three there is an unanswered question , how shall we escape if we neglect so greater salvation , and finally one other the apostle Peter , he asked the question in , in chapter fo , first apostle in chapter four and verse seven seventeen for it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God and if judgment begins with us first , what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God |