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Example sentences for "asking him"

  • On one occasion, when he was in France, she wrote to him, asking him to dine with her on Wednesday, and saying that she would experience great pleasure in seeing and embracing him.

  • After his return from his second mission to England, he wrote to Sargent, asking him to receive the balance due him by Messrs.

  • Another note addressed to Mortimer, asking him to call at the hotel at five o'clock, went forth.

  • Presently Crane would be asking him to give the public a fair run for their money each time out.

  • Immediately upon his arrival in New York, Crane telephoned for Faust, asking him to bring his betting sheet for the second last day of the Brooklyn Meet.

  • She took her first lesson immediately and gave him two sequins, asking him to purchase her some good novels.

  • I composed a stanza of eight verses on some subject which I do not recollect, and I gave it to Crebillon, asking him to correct it.

  • I communicated my discovery to the officer, asking him why he had told me that the man was a Greek.

  • A telegram and a letter were sent by the State president and corresponding secretary to President Theodore Roosevelt, asking him to remember woman suffrage in his message to Congress.

  • Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, asking him to organize such a league; that he had conferred with Rabbi Stephen S.

  • She wired to Senator Fermor Barrett of Stevens county, chairman of the sub-committee of the State Democratic Executive Committee, asking him to call it together and see if it could provide some way.

  • It has come out in the evidence that I wrote a letter to Wilson, asking him to meet me, and that Wilson replied refusing to do so.

  • Again and again she had spoken to her father, asking him to take rooms at an hotel, but Mr. Bolitho had persisted that it would offend the Wilsons deeply, and that he knew of no sufficient reason for acting upon her suggestion.

  • Gilbert, asking him to call a meeting of Mormons in Liberty for a discussion of the situation.

  • James Hutchins, a resident of Wisconsin, addressed a long appeal "for justice" to President Grant in 1876, asking him to reinstate the Mormons in the homes from which they had been driven.

  • She thought of sending word to Miguel, asking him to come home, but on second thought she saw that she would be obliged to give some reason, and she had none.

  • As soon as he became minister, he sent Miguel a message, whether through generosity or egotism, we cannot say, asking him to be his private secretary, and at the same time retain his place in the Council of State.

  • Numerous letters came to him from authors inviting his literary criticism, or asking him to accord to them the honor of permitting them to dedicate their works to him.

  • I put the question to Indaba-zimbi, asking him if he thought that we had better try and follow the oxen which we had sent away with the Kaffirs and women on the preceding night.

  • When he had been with us a year, a deputation came to him from the tribe he had left, asking him to return.

  • I was waiting to hear from the gunboats; asking him to notify Admiral Porter that we were all ready.

  • The child admired her father and would often stand by his chair in the library or the sitting-room, or his desk in his private office, or by his seat at the table, asking him questions.

  • He had a little formula of questions which he usually went through with each new prisoner--asking him if he was sorry now for the crime he had committed, if he meant to do better with a new chance, if his father and mother were alive, etc.

  • Cowperwood sent an urgent wire to the nearest point and then, to make assurance doubly sure, to several other points in the same neighborhood, asking him to return immediately.

  • He sent a note to his father, asking him to call for lunch.

  • After referring to the alteration which had appeared of late in Gabriel's manner, the old man began by asking him, sorrowfully but not suspiciously, whether he still preserved his old affection for Perrine.

  • He returned to his seat, and I resumed the subject of the stuffed poodle, asking him boldly to tell me the story with which the dog was connected.

  • Meanwhile I lifted my canvas on the easel, and was on the point of asking him to sit down, when he assailed me again.

  • Our last letter is in answer to one from Mr. Kent, asking him to sit to Mr. John Watkins for his photograph.

  • A letter to Mr. Wills, asking him to take a part in the comedy, is given here.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also made; asking him; asking himself; asking questions; asking them; both numbers; euerie side; foreign lands; hardy annuals; intensive training; large element; large spoon; moderate means; our country; pagan times; send home; soldiers were; strong infusion; strong resemblance; tell anyone; troops could; vague sense; vegetable origin; vivid picture; well educated