Example sentences of "ask [pron] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked me what the time was . |
| 2 | On one U-day last winter , a short-sighted neighbour asked me what the pretty flowers were . |
| 3 | I met the then Chairman of the AAA , Bill Ferguson , who asked me what the problem was all about . |
| 4 | My mum come up to see me and asked me what the bandage was for and I told her I 'd burnt myself . |
| 5 | But if someone asked me what the " oldest tree in the park " meant , or what " oak " meant , or what the meaning of the sentence as a whole was , I would have to explain to him the meaning of these expressions with the help of some other expressions which he could understand . |
| 6 | Mass attendance , erm , mentioned the hospital , he asked me what the hospital was like you know , whether it was acute or , or whatever erm |
| 7 | I think this was the day you asked me what the quality of life was . |
| 8 | He asked me who the young man with the dark curly hair was , and I told him . |
| 9 | And , it was the attitude of the other men going to a , play another school , I came across this man who asked me who the referee was on that particular day ? |
| 10 | I think I stopped when I once asked someone what the matter was and he said : ‘ If you do n't know , then you ca n't love me . ’ |
| 11 | S as Spike knows , about phoning places that I where I do n't recognize the number and asking them who the fuck they are and when he called them . . |
| 12 | ‘ Khan , if you are asking me what the Kha-Khan 's intentions are , then I have to tell you that he has not confided in me . ’ |
| 13 | Is he asking me what the solution is ? |
| 14 | The young lady in question ( who I shall call Mrs X because I am afraid that I omitted to catch her name ) began by asking me what the bad points were within the embalming profession . |
| 15 | But we can not deal with this without asking ourselves what the results of a university education are supposed to be and what degree of intrinsic value pertains to them . |
| 16 | In fact I still remember ‘ Tiger Smith ’ coming into our dressing-room while I was giving a pre-season captain 's talk and asking him who the hell he was . |
| 17 | I was feeling miserable , even though I was happily married [ to American actress Gwen Humble ] and then I started asking myself what the hell I was doing . |
| 18 | That seemed all right , but over dinner Alison began to act oddly — as if she was enjoying herself — so I scowled at her and asked her what the problem was . |
| 19 | She did n't want to go back to the lies Kate told whenever she asked her what the matter was , to the telephone ringing and the queer , high-pitched voice insisting it was the box-office of the Essoldo Cinema . |
| 20 | When Diana once asked him what the capital of Australia was , he was rendered totally speechless . |
| 21 | A commotion ensued when Stirling loudly asked him what the hell was going on , and the alerted Italians began shouting . |
| 22 | When Kalchu asked him what the others would do , he confirmed our suspicion . |
| 23 | When we had eaten in silence I asked him what the trouble was . |
| 24 | I asked him what the problem was and he told us that when people are together and a lot of energy is being created through tension , it can manifest itself in equipment failures . ’ |
| 25 | But then life is invariably ultimately hard on someone with pretensions beyond their talents and a style best encapsulated in the story told about the boy in his Taunton constituency who asked him what the time was . |
| 26 | I asked him what the time was when I rang and he said |
| 27 | So aware of the ‘ internationalism of art ’ ( he told the story himself ) that when a journalist asked him who the great French artists were , he replied : ‘ Why , Picasso , Modigliani , Lipchitz , Stravinsky ’ — a Spaniard , an Italian and two Russians . |
| 28 | So I ask them what the land 's like , is there water ? |
| 29 | I 've got to phone the Inland Revenue tomorrow and ask them what the maximum |
| 30 | ‘ We ring the doorbell , ’ said Maisie , ‘ and ask them what the hell they think they 're doing with Hasan . ’ |