Abdallah knew no common means would do with Queen Labe: he therefore whistled in a peculiar manner, and there immediately arose a giant, with four wings, who presenting himself before him, asked what he would have?
He knew she must have been struck by something she saw, and, wishing to calm her, asked what it was.
I asked what for, and he said for trying to shoot some one.
I told him that I was, and he asked what time we had better start.
He came to the door, but did not recognize me as my hair had grown out long and my beard was all over my face, but in his usual kindly way he asked what he could do for us.
We asked whatwe had done that we should be arrested.
He asked what we had been doing that the authorities had a right to arrest us, adding that two men were at that very moment looking up an officer for that purpose.
We drove on, and when I began to laugh he asked what was up.
Chi-lu[94] asked what is due to the ghosts of the dead?
Asked what he thought of Tzu-hsi, the Master said, Of him!
Asked what he thought of Kuan Chung,[130] the Master said, He was the man that drove the Po from the town of Pien with its three hundred households to end his days on coarse rice, without his muttering a word.
Sylla did not perfectly hear the words, but observing a sort of amazement and wonder in the looks and gestures of those that did hear them, he asked what it was that he said.
Antony, seeing the heap, asked what it meant; his steward replied, "The money you have ordered to be given to your friend.
I asked whathe was saying, and was told: 'He says that Parnell is alive yet.
Then the fairy king came and asked what was he doing.
A mother, asked what pain is greatest, said: "To see a snake coming from the grave of one's child.
A gipsy, asked what pain is greatest, said: "To be hungry and to see bread before the householder's dog.
A silver piece, asked what it was worth, replied: "If a man could shine as I can, then I am merely worth a man.
A man, asked what things he disliked, said an old bachelor telling love stories of his youth.
Then he asked what I thought about learning typewriting this summer, and taking a short practical business course in Mr. Carver's office.
After dinner was over the King asked what he thought of his two daughters and their husbands.
But the Rajah continued calling till the Malee opened the door; who then was indeed surprised, seeing it was truly no other than the Rajah, and he asked what he could do for him.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asked what" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
