Example sentences of "ask if i [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 So I asked if I might go through it again and try some of the ideas he talked about .
2 When I asked if I might walk through the camp and look at the castle from the other side , Cinderella looked distressed , so I said ‘ never mind ’ and made my way back to the stone stile .
3 Some weeks later my brother and I were passing through London , and I asked if I might bring him to see her .
4 I said I wished mine to be destroyed , but asked if I might keep some of hers of a literary interest .
5 He was then , of course , in opposition and particularly asked if I might advise on what would be a sensible housing policy when the Labour Party came to power .
6 Alexandra said , ‘ She asked if I might go to Cornwall ?
7 ‘ He remarked on me seeming worried about it and asked if I might be pregnant . ’
8 ‘ He said he would be seeing Mr Moi in Bonn the following week , and asked if I would like him to set up a meeting with the president .
9 He asked if I would advise him to send for Henderson , I said ‘ No ’ , which he said relieved him .
10 On a night in early winter , one of those wild exciting nights with a brilliant moon sliding in and out of the racing clouds , Mrs Browning rang , and asked if I would go down .
11 I went to a meeting and they asked if I would try to get them contacts from the West , ’ said Mrs Charlton .
12 The landlady was going out to see the workers among her hay some miles down the glen ; her man-servant ( the Hermit of Glencoe ) drove , and she asked if I would come with them as far as they went .
13 When I was in a fit state she asked if I would like to talk to her .
14 One of them asked if I would like some beetroot .
15 He asked if I would say that ‘ on the record ’ .
16 Then she asked if I would knit some for other mothers , so I agreed to her putting my name on her notice board .
17 On 26 April I was summoned by Mr Baker to his office at the Department of Education and Science , and asked if I would chair a Working Group to prepare proposals for English in the National Curriculum .
18 A nice government official helping to run the camp asked if I would mind staying until all the old and sick and pregnant women were flown out , and of course we were only too pleased to stay .
19 With that she lifted the latch , but before opening the door she turned to me and asked if I would like to go shopping with her .
20 I did n't understand what she meant by this but she smiled and asked if I would like to go to the ‘ flicks ’ the following Saturday .
21 ‘ A few of them actually ASKED if I would mind having the clothes ripped off my back .
22 Then she asked if I would consider returning home with someone living in to look after me .
23 My first encounter with Kagan took place when Wilson telephoned me and asked if I would see him .
24 Haines asked if I would ring up Max Aitken — whom he knew to be a very good friend — to ask him to dissuade his editor from publishing the story , which had until then been kept as a dark secret .
25 Then — this was the really weird part — he asked if I would stay the night round there .
26 I greeted the first man to approach the car in my broken French and to my surprise , he asked if I would prefer to continue the conversation in English .
27 He asked if I would do this play , and I agreed . ’
28 I could hardly speak , I told him it was fantastic , he asked if I would do it again .
29 He asked if I would advise him to send for Henderson .
30 My father , , who retired from two years ago , asked if I would visit a fellow pensioner — .
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