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Example sentences for "asked them"

  • No; whenever I asked them I always got them.

  • Sometimes I have been, and I have got advances from Mr. Adie without a word; but I was intending to fish for him in the coming year before I asked them.

  • In those times did the men get advances in money during the season when they asked them?

  • And it was in order that he might have some security for these advances that he asked them to sign the agreement?

  • Yes, when I asked them; but if I asked any other thing I got whatever I asked.

  • And Concobar called to him his stewards and attendants and asked them:--"How is it in the house of the Red Branch as to food and drink?

  • As soon as they had come within speaking distance, he bade them stay their course; and then he asked them, in an angry and chiding tone, if they were the three champions from Erin, who had overcome and slain so many kings.

  • When Lir came to the shore, he heard the birds speaking, and, wondering greatly, he asked them how it came to pass that they had human voices.

  • Towards the close of the day, when the battle was ended, Luga espied two of his near friends; and he asked them if they had seen his father, Kian, in the fight.

  • Just then Kaddu's men returned to say they wanted provisions for the way, as the Wazinza, hearing of their mission, asked them if they knew what they were about, going to a strange country without any means of paying their way.

  • And when once he gave his opinion to the people, and was met with the general approbation and applause of the assembly, turning to some of his friends, he asked them, "Have I inadvertently said something foolish?

  • When the Indians captured him he did not show any sign of fear, but began talking to them about his friends in Jamestown, and wrote a letter which he asked them to send there.

  • But when he asked them to make peace with the Spaniards, they grew very angry and immediately began fighting again.

  • He asked them to live as brothers, loving and helping one another, and urged them to convert the natives to the Christian religion.

  • We asked them, whether they had seen their good friends the Touaricks?

  • I asked them, "Whether they thought it showed any of the friendship which they professed towards me to embroil me with the people of the country, whose hospitality I was receiving?

  • I asked them if the Rais would take his tea.

  • I asked them "If they would do so in Tripoli, and if not, why here?

  • And he asked them: What question ye with them?

  • And he asked them: But who do ye say that I am?

  • And he asked them: How many loaves have ye?

  • Again therefore he asked them: Whom do ye seek?

  • And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, that his disciples were with him; and he asked them, saying: Who do the multitudes say that I am?

  • I had almost done supper, and I asked them all to sup with me after the performance the next day.

  • All those girls you saw yesterday would give me all they have if I asked them, as they are all expecting me to make them a handsome present in the course of the week, but I won't abuse their trust in me.

  • I asked them to come and sup with me--a windfall which these people are not given to refusing.

  • We asked them if they thought the wages they got (a shilling per day, or about eleven cents,) was enough for them.

  • We asked them if they did not fear that their children would become lazy if they went to school all the time.

  • We asked them if they still liked liberty; they said, "Yes, massa, we all quite proud to be free.

  • The officer asked them questions about Canada and appeared very much interested in our country, he talked for half an hour and never mentioned war; then he asked them to go up to where the General was sitting.

  • This is a sample of the questions he asked them: Interpreter: "Show me, on the map, the position your machine gun was holding on the Ypres salient.

  • And he asked them, How many loaves have ye?

  • I asked whether they were Christians; if they confessed, I asked them a second and a third time, threatening them with punishment; if they persevered, I ordered them to be executed.

  • I asked whether they were Christians; if they confessed, I asked them a second and a third time, threatening them with punishment; if they persevered I ordered them to be executed.

  • When we asked them to pray in meetings, they prayed as if taught of God.

  • One very wicked man, also from the village, asked them to pray for him.

  • After listening for an hour to their protests, I asked them if they would now care to hear the terms we intended to ask of them.

  • All I asked them was an assurance that they would not prevent willing people from selling supplies to us, and even this little they refused both the Chinese and myself.

  • They then made further reference to their religion being spoilt if we went to Lhasa, and I asked them to make more clear to me in what way precisely their religion would be spoilt.

  • I asked them if they thought they were going to make real, manly Christian boys at this rate, and they said no.

  • Then I asked them what we should do about it.

  • If I asked them to do an errand for me, it was done unwillingly.

  • They seemed to have some idea of the meaning and use of the compass, and it occurred to me whether they knew what a mariner was, so I asked them.

  • Just back of the quarry, two red-skirted women were digging in a potato patch, and they looked so picturesque and Millet-like that I asked them if I might take their picture.

  • I asked them if I might take their picture, and they laughed and agreed, and it is opposite this page, but the sun was setting and the light was not good enough to give me a sharp negative.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    asked about; asked for; asked her; asked himself; asked leave; asked myself; asked permission; asked what; asked you; cavalry were; ecclesiastical architecture; extinct genus; live here; only some; perfectly happy; plane geometry; prepare for; seats were; solid crust; still remains; still standing; take pains; three different; three hundred and thirty; three vessels; voice production