Example sentences of "asked [pron] [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He came in to the shop and asked me what he should wear on the date . |
| 2 | They asked me what it would be on . |
| 3 | I said well frankly Cheryl with her record I 'm not in I said she takes off when she pleases , she comes down when she wants something I said she doing me some good at christmas I said I do I quite understand that I said I do understand and I 'm I 've nothing nothing to do with me that 's entirely up to you and she said and you would n't tell me what to do you wo n't change our minds , I said no I 'm not trying to change your minds but you asked me what I would do I said and I think there and now she 's She said and I do n't care what you done , I 'll do I 'll do , I said she 's got hundreds of where they smash the windows and break into so regularly . |
| 4 | ‘ He asked me what I could say of you , Callanish , and I waited for your signal knowing that when he was wiser and ready I could tell him . ’ |
| 5 | I wrote to my home social services and asked them what they would do if I moved from residential care into a home of my own . |
| 6 | As the girls were sitting down Tom asked them what they 'd like to drink . |
| 7 | ‘ In despair , Rol asked them what he could do for his people except lead them in the killing of others in the land . |
| 8 | We asked ourselves what we could do to make the shops busy . |
| 9 | We asked you what we should do , and now we 're doing it . |
| 10 | We also asked you what you would prefer to do — and the picture is very different . |
| 11 | As soon as her muscles had slackened , she could feel a corresponding movement in him , and his voice was almost normal when he asked her what she would like to eat . |
| 12 | In the airport restaurant he asked her what she would like . |
| 13 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 15 | If you asked him what he 'd rather have — a night wi ’ a pretty lass or a day wi' a Rolls-Royce engine , I think he 'd have had to toss for it . |
| 16 | I asked him what I should do . |
| 17 | I asked him what it might have been ; after all , if he was an expert on the local birds then he ought to know . |
| 18 | I asked myself what I would feel if on his journey back to Paris he had an accident . |