Example sentences of "ask [pron] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | People often asked me the time just to hear my voice so they could proclaim my gender to their friends . |
| 2 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 3 | A young man of shaven pate , E-X-P-L-O-I-T-E-D tattooed on his forehead , approaches me brandishing a splashing can of Carlsberg Special Brew and asking me the time . |
| 4 | Ask me the time I was up at ? |
| 5 | Ask them the time and they will invariably say something like , ‘ … it 's 4.41 ’ . |
| 6 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 7 | I have reason to believe that if I were to ask you the time you would n't be able to accommodate me . |
| 8 | He knew better than to ask her the time ; she was edgy enough as it was . |
| 9 | There are of course exceptions to the rule : you can ask someone the time , or for directions ; you can expect to attract comment if your behaviour is somehow deviant , for example you are hopping down the street dressed in a clown suit . |
| 10 | Wendy Cope is about as far from the old-boy generation as David Wright feels from his first meeting with George Barker , but she knows what they 're like : Do n't ask him the time of day . |