Example sentences of "[verb] asked [pron] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you would only approach that business on the basis that well the estate agent has asked me to give you er you know he he feels that you would benefit and erm from this exposure and er has asked me to approach you first . |
| 2 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 3 | Mr Mason has asked me to thank you very much for the invitation to attend the announcement of the name of the winning architect chosen to design the new Museum on 13th August . |
| 4 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 5 | But you would only approach that business on the basis that well the estate agent has asked me to give you er you know he he feels that you would benefit and erm from this exposure and er has asked me to approach you first . |
| 6 | ‘ And this woman , this lovely young woman , has asked me to marry her ! ’ he thought . |
| 7 | Frank has asked me to marry him . |
| 8 | This must be our secret , but Timothy has asked me to marry him , too . |
| 9 | Today Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him , and I gave him an answer . |
| 10 | ‘ Sir George has asked me to marry him ! ’ |
| 11 | Nevertheless , he has asked me to make it clear that he strongly supports the case that I seek to make . |
| 12 | He has asked me to send you to his lodging . |
| 13 | There 's a meeting on and the chairman has asked me to get you up here to the boardroom . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother has asked me to tell you how appreciative she is of your splendid BBC TV programme last Friday evening … knows what trouble you went to in the very limited time at your disposal … your wonderfully successful endeavour clear for all to see ’ , etc. , etc . |
| 15 | ‘ Your Papa has asked me to tell you … ’ |
| 16 | I am sorry to disturb you , but Detective Chief Superintendent Milton has asked me to tell you , Mr Fishbane , that he would be grateful if you would be so kind as to spare him a little of your time . |
| 17 | I expect she has asked you to tell him everything that has happened , and persuade him to make friends and thank me ? |
| 18 | ‘ Mrs Giraud has asked us to tell you that she had to step out for a short while , but to make yourself at home , ’ the receptionist had informed her . |
| 19 | Mr Janman has asked us to make it clear that , as he wrote in last Saturday 's Sun , he recognises that both crown servants and substantial investors in Britain have an existing right to come here and that though at present he advocates the strict exclusion of all others , he would cease to do so if the Chinese were to attempt ‘ a Tiananmen-style crackdown ’ in Hong Kong in 1997 . |
| 20 | Much more to the point , why had n't he said he knew Charlotte Hanover when she 'd asked him to accompany her here this evening ? |
| 21 | Dick cross dresses , confesses he hates women , admits that he once shook Lulu 's hand in 1962 , ‘ If she 'd asked me to marry her , ’ said Dick , smoothing down his silk stockings , ‘ I would have said yes . ’ |
| 22 | By midnight , he 'd asked me to marry him . ’ |
| 23 | He 'd been shy and fair-haired the Sunday afternoon he 'd asked her to marry him , without any confidence in those days . |
| 24 | The one drawback to the Beka'a Video Club was that Abu Salim , who 'd asked us to give him English lessons , would come down with a list of words and phrases he 'd noted while watching the films and ask for an explanation , his main interest was obscene vocabulary . |
| 25 | ‘ In the good old days David Owen would have asked me to join him ’ |
| 26 | Well and even that did n't jog his memory , that he should have asked her to judge it ! |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd have asked you to marry me . ’ |
| 28 | Presumably on the basis that it could not involve James , she had asked him to join them for supper . |
| 29 | Diana , patron of British Red Cross Youth , had asked him to brief her on Somalia and war-ravaged Bosnia . |
| 30 | ‘ That would have been nice if the customs had asked me to open it . ’ |