Example sentences of "ask [subord] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked if we might photograph the chest in that setting for publicity purposes . |
| 2 | I asked if we might agree that ICI cares , is committed to reducing any harmful impact of its processes and is demonstrating its ‘ greenery ’ by building new plant to the highest environmental standards . |
| 3 | When we 'd finished I asked if we could wash up and run the errands but she said she 'd already been to the shops with her brother . |
| 4 | How many times had my heart sunk when I asked if we could go somewhere or try something new in our poems and he had answered with the excusing phrase ‘ I guess not ’ ? |
| 5 | I know Steve asked if we could go back to Thursdays cos he ca n't make a Wednesday night . |
| 6 | She asked if we could meet . |
| 7 | The boys asked if we could pay them some ‘ small money ’ to buy pens for schools . |
| 8 | Soaked with it and languid from the heat , with the scent of salt and sand still heavy in my nose , I asked if we could stop at the high slope of grass off Elderberry Road . |
| 9 | The treasurer asked if we could make an early start to the meetings eight P M prompt . |
| 10 | Concelebration Masses were becoming commonplace and Bishop McClean asked if we could provide 52 sets of white Mass vestments for use on important occasions with a particular view to the Diocesan Centenary Celebrations coming in 1978 . |
| 11 | ‘ American House and Gardens came to photograph the house and asked if we could provide 350 of these plates for their best advertisers . |
| 12 | We also asked if we could get the same consultation period because they are breaking it up at the four sites and some sites will get thirty days ' notice others will get the ninety days . |
| 13 | ‘ Frank Worthington had been due one and he asked if we could have a joint game . |
| 14 | She asked if we 'd go over there for tea this afternoon ! |
| 15 | and Joan came over she came over about a week or so after , not , not much more than a week , and she sat there and she said oh well yeah I 'll have one of your , he asked if we 'd like a sweet , she said yeah I 'll have one dad . |
| 16 | " They asked if they might come to see the palais , but they had of course to remain outside in the gardens with their nurse where they can do no damage . " |
| 17 | St Bartholomew 's church at Covenham was declining to the state of danger when a parish in California asked if they might have it and ship it stone by stone to the U.S.A. This caused much controversy for a while but finally it was decided that it should remain and be safely maintained on its original consecrated site . |
| 18 | At a meeting of the Company on 5th November 1491 , called at the request of Thomas Rich in the name of Julian Shaa and the other executors , the Goldsmiths asked if they might have £40 clear : this would allow them to fulfil all their obligations , to have some money spare for repairs and suchlike , and also to appropriate the balance to their own use . |
| 19 | which I asked if they would stay , but they altogether refused , and seeing that they refused I did not hinder them to go , for I will press no man . |
| 20 | finished , so I asked if they would help me to sort out the erm |
| 21 | One morning a carter and his son were delivering a load of firewood and Grandmother asked if they would like a slice of pudding before they left . |
| 22 | He stood up slowly , asked if they would like coffee , made his way out of the room when they accepted the offer . |
| 23 | Women on the way to FAMILY 'S housework classes would be stopped by feminists and asked if they would like to do karate or woodwork instead ; new fiancées would receive congratulatory cards in the post , enclosing leaflets outlining the legal rights of wives , while their startled boyfriends got anonymous warnings to behave . |
| 24 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 25 | Huge hairy warts were stuck on her face and the make-up artists asked if they could cover her facial hair in mascara , giving her an instant moustache . |
| 26 | When I asked if they could make me an identical one trimmed with black fur and beading instead , they were horrified but they agreed in the end . ’ |
| 27 | People we knew asked if they could leave their horse , Shamrock , in one of the fields . |
| 28 | but then they 've got er er said they they asked if they could rent his house off him until they got themselves sorted out . |
| 29 | So when Grandad 's uncle , Richard Tallentire , asked if they could bring Mother up , they agreed to let her go . |
| 30 | I asked if they could give me something for the pain . |