Example sentences of "i asked [pron] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 2 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
| 3 | It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here . |
| 4 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 5 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 6 | I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away . |
| 7 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident . |
| 9 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 10 | I asked her about the changes in her life since the NI featured her in 1979 . |
| 11 | ‘ I asked her about the make and she said she did n't know . |
| 12 | I asked her about the letter and she kne she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast . |
| 13 | I asked her about the letter and she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast and she said open it , so I opened it and it 's one of these things er if you book to go to Dublin before May the whatever , the end of May , then if you went again in the Autumn , you you get er fifty pounds worth of vouchers or something , you go half price . |
| 14 | But you said you you when I asked you about the clinic on Street you thou you thought had heard of it . |
| 15 | ‘ You remember me , I asked you about the meters … well my car was just here on this corner and … ’ |