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Example sentences for "asked the"

  • Asked the lady, "And what feat wilt thou do?

  • Asked the Kazi, 'Which of you is the complainant?

  • Then he asked the broker, "What hath been bidden for her?

  • Asked the Princess, "And what did I promise thee?

  • Asked the Caliph 'Hast thou a child or a husband?

  • Monsieur Darzac," asked the President, "did Mademoiselle Stangerson in any way confide in you on this matter?

  • On the second day he asked the doctor, with great gravity, if he considered him in danger, adding, 'because he had never made a WILL to bequeath his property.

  • In the morning, he sent for a lawyer and three witnesses, executed his will, made them read it over twice, paragraph by paragraph, asked the lawyer if that will would stand good though a man were to shoot himself.

  • He asked the people of Brampton, and of the state, to stop and consider who in these days made the laws and granted the franchises.

  • He asked the price of the most expensive, and I told him twenty dollars, merely for a jest, sir.

  • As they were so doing the report of the captives' moaning and groaning increased yet more and more until Khudadad, touched and troubled at their impatience, asked the cause of it.

  • He asked the Wazir, an he knew its owner; and Ja'afar answered he did not but would make inquiry.

  • Presently, Khudadad heard shrieks and cries and weeping and wailing with groans and moans and ever loudening lamentations; so he asked the lady, saying, "whence are these clamours and from whom come these pitiful complaints?

  • Asked the King, "And what fell out between them, O Wazir?

  • They were long in bringing the goods ashore so I asked the master, "Is there aught left in thy ship?

  • O Shaykh Abd al-Samad," asked the Emir, "what are these folk?

  • Asked the King, "And how was it with the merchant, O Wazir?

  • Now when the Prince saw him he asked the Princess, "Is this thy sire?

  • Asked the others, "And what did the King with them?

  • The King also admired it and wondered at it with extreme wonder; and he asked the Prince, "O youth, is this thy horse?

  • Well," asked the abbe, as he returned to the apartment below, "what have you made up your mind to do?

  • Will you see the register at once," asked the governor, "or proceed to the other cell?

  • And," asked the count, "did you ever know the name of this woman?

  • Ah," asked the countess, "who is out in the streets of Rome at this hour, unless it be to go to a ball?

  • However, I was much struck with the conversation I had had with the comte de la Marche; and when next the conversation fell on this mysterious personage, I asked the duc de Richelieu what he thought of him.

  • The prince de Soubise, who supped with us that evening, asked the duc de Duras if he had read the "
  • And who," asked the king, with impatience, "may the lady be?

  • So you sent the Marquis off, I understand," asked the Professor.

  • Why," asked the Secretary, "for fear of bombs?

  • So I asked the neighbours of her and they answered, "This house hath been empty of habitants these many days; but three days agone there came a woman with an ass, and at supper-time last night she took her gear and went away.

  • I asked the queen of this and she acquainted me with her case and told me who built her the palace.

  • Asked the Eunuch, "And where is King Al-Aziz?

  • Asked the nurse, "Why, then, O my lord, didst thou conceal the secret of thy rank and lineage and passedst thyself off for a foreigner and a wayfarer?

  • At the same time," asked the Prince, "if I were to refuse to follow you?

  • I asked the pert, active, cockney housemaid what I ought to pay them, as, being a stranger, they might overcharge me.

  • I asked the captain if I had dreamt it, but he said it was quite possible; he had never seen a ship so completely on her beam ends come up all right, masts and yards all sound.

  • Mr. Howard (of the Court) asked the General: You say the President spoke of force.

  • Mr. Butler, examining the witness, asked the question: Had you on the evening before seen General Thomas?

  • Then he asked the other if he had ever been in Dunedin.

  • Why," he asked the woman, "did you commit this horrible murder, decoy your lover to his death?

  • He asked the jury to take Peace's revolver in their hands and try the trigger, so as to see for themselves whether it was likely to go off accidentally or not.

  • I would guess that he asked the advice of a druggist or an M.

  • So I asked the electricians to remedy the problem.

  • Then I asked the man, "What do I do while I am waiting, starve to death?

  • I asked the man, "How far is it to Rotan?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are called; asked about; asked for; asked her; asked him; asked himself; asked leave; asked myself; asked permission; asked the; asked what; asked you; evergreen tree; fair princess; fight against the children; filthy lucre; little dear; look yonder; make free; more truly; never having; now known; perfect beauty; said hastily; total eclipse; volcanic action