Example sentences of "[conj] i asked he what " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’
2 Once I asked him what he thought of the French system of criminal justice and he replied that during his career he had no time left over from practising our own system to study any other ( which I think is representative of the Bar as a whole ) .
3 Soon after Bogie joined us and I asked him what was going on .
4 ‘ I am not what you think I am , ’ and I asked him what he thought I believed him to be .
5 ‘ No , I saw the bruise when he came back to the shop on Tuesday evening and I asked him what he 'd done to himself .
6 the employer and I asked him what documents they produced , what report they produced we have written a letter about it , but I formally call for any report or document from and the second thing he mentioned were letters from about twelve members of parliament that they received
7 When I asked him what those eminent shrinks did with themselves in the evenings he explained that they gathered in the hotel bar .
8 He is noted for possessing a ferocious intellectual curiosity — and when I asked him what he was reading while cruising across the Atlantic on Concorde , he said without flinching , Conversations with Isaiah Berlin .
9 When I asked him what sort of things he liked , he typed in the word aeroplane , spelt perfectly . ’
10 When I asked him what for he gave a sad sigh and then a sort of bitter grin and looked me in the eye and said , ‘ Sexual harassment . ’
11 And when I asked him what he meant , he said irritably , ‘ Oh , do n't be more stupid than you need be .
12 When I asked him what he meant , all he replied was , ‘ It is a grave matter ’ . ’
13 And when I asked him what would happen if it got known he just smiled and said I could talk if I wanted to .
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