Example sentences of "[noun] ask [pron] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I returned from military service in 1960 , my employers asked me to represent them south of the border , in that troutless land beyond Mr Hadrian 's Wall known as England . |
| 2 | In Gregory 's account , Chlodomer , before setting off to Vézeronce , asked his half-brother , Theuderic , to accompany him , and the latter agreed ; but when Childebert and Chlothar asked him to join them at the time of their later campaign against the Burgundian kingdom , he refused . |
| 3 | Doubtful whether to accept this honour , he was persuaded to do so when the NID asked him to represent them as well . |
| 4 | According to Froissart , the prince and those fighting with him , faced with a fierce attack from the French , sent word to the king asking him to send them reinforcements . |
| 5 | All I 'm supposed to be his friends cut up all morning And Maureen asked him to cut them out I E to go round the edge . |
| 6 | Several fellow players asked her to take them for a ride as pillion passengers but that treat seemed to be reserved for members of her regular entourage , though I suppose it could be argued she took Steffi Graf for a ride in the semi-finals . |
| 7 | they come up knocking at my door asking me to teach them boxing and even stopping me on the street . |
| 8 | ‘ The hospital asked me to let them know as soon as you were on your way . |
| 9 | Shop stewards at Broughton have written to Raytheon 's president Max Bleck to ask him to meet them . |
| 10 | I also heard that a party of girls from Bishop 's Home orphanage school in Rangoon had got stranded at Katha and I was able to send a telegram to Jack Cardew of the Burma Railways asking him to extricate them and get them on a train to Myitkyina . |
| 11 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 12 | Minton , guessing correctly that whilst in the West Country Norman would revisit the family with whom he was evacuated during the war , sent a wire asking him to join them . |