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asked and me
`` Do you mean '' -- he asked almost shyly -- `` you want me to go with you, wherever you're goin ''??
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.
`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.
At a party an English intellectual -- so-called -- asked me why I write always about distress.
On the glass partition between me and the driver were three signs: one asked for help for the blind, another help for orphans, and the third for relief for the war refugees.
Just as I was about to enlarge upon my discovery of the underside of the leaf of love, memory, displeased at being asked to yield its unsavory secrets, dashed ahead of me, calling back over its shoulder: `` Skip it.
The waspish man stopped me three paces from the bicycle barricade, and asked me in French if I had papers to leave France.
One of the girl students, sitting by while I ate the thick soup, asked me if I had a sleeping bag.
Once or twice my father asked me if I wasn't overdoing a bit in my churchgoing.
The first time I went there he asked me to bring him water from Flagler's well -- water that reminded him of his first days in the mountains -- and before I came the next time I filled a five-gallon jug for him and brought it to the hospital.
There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.
It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.
I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.
Once Peter asked, `` How oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him??
He smiled also at a British bloke seated next to me, who asked the most asinine questions.
It was at that party that, finally overcoming my timidity, inspired by tales only half-understood and overheard among older boys, I asked Jessie to spend New Year's Eve with me.
In conclusion, he wished me well -- and as kindly and humbly as this humane gentleman could express himself, he asked to be remembered to my wife and children.
'' My impassioned plea for civil rights created a landslide of correspondence and one sponsor even asked me to consider replacing the Eddie Cantor comedy hour on a permanent basis.
I asked Quasimodo recently how he accomplished this, and he replied that he had painted his model `` a beautiful shade of red and then had her breathe on the canvas '', which was his typical tongue-in-cheek way of chiding me for my lack of sensitivity.

asked and suddenly
She asked, turning suddenly.
She asked suddenly.
Shortly afterward, in a twist of events, everyone that Nico and Jacks arrested is suddenly let go at the request of Federal officials, and Nico is asked to stand down, not to mention the fact that the priest of Nico ’ s parish is killed in an explosion as a Mass is ending.
It was Hitchcock who asked Herrmann for the " recognition scene " near the end of Vertigo ( the scene where James Stewart's character suddenly realizes Kim Novak's identity ) to be played with music.
He was suddenly unable to attend and he asked de Marenches to take his place.
Before production of the series, Hideaki Anno suddenly asked the production team why Neo Atlantis want to conquer the world, and why they do not simply use their superior technology to live a more comfortable life.
*( On Dan Quayle :) A reporter once asked vice-president Quayle, ' What would you do if you were suddenly thrust into the office of the presidency?
In 1972 he was asked to stand in as the host of the long-running Sunday evening radio programme Down Your Way ( first broadcast in 1946 ) when Franklin Engelmann, who had hosted the programme since 1953, died very suddenly.
" When asked what had happened, he explained that, as he was about to leave the foot of the altar, he suddenly heard voices-two voices, one kind and gentle, the other guttural and harsh.
In an interview with Dengeki Online, producer Keita Takahashi said that when asked about the title, " It just popped into my head suddenly, and this is what it has been from the beginning.
When Pickering suddenly stopped coming to the hotel bar, Cipriani asked him why.
The show was on and at midnight suddenly uncle came to the sleeping boy and did some minimum make up to him to look like a maharshi-a hermit-and asked him to sit on a chair on the stage.
However, when Groening asked Harrison about the Wonderwall Music album, he suddenly " perked up " because it was one of his solo albums that he was rarely questioned on.
de Conte also includes an official transcript that states, “ They asked her profound questions … the questioners changed suddenly and passes to another subject to see if she would not contradict herself .”
The story is told by a first-person narrator and well-to-do author, William Ashenden, who, at the beginning of the novel is suddenly and unexpectedly contacted by Alroy Kear, a busy-body literary figure in London who has been asked by the second Mrs. Driffield to write the biography of her deceased husband, Edward Driffield.
Assembling a humanoid creature perhaps by the use of a chemical, apparatus or a combination of both ( he avoids the question three times when asked ), Frankenstein successfully brings it to life, but he is suddenly horrified by his actions as it awakens.
Stoner recalls, " I thought the Hard Rain thing was the last I'd ever hear from Bob ... Then suddenly I get this call — I think Bob called me up personally ... and asked me to bring Howie, and a couple of other people, to L. A. to ' just try some things out.
During the 1960s, ads for Lady Clairol asked “ Is it true blondes have more fun ?”; those for Loving Care asked,What would your husband do if suddenly you looked ten years younger ?” When the company introduced Nice ’ n Easy, the first at-home shampoo-in hair color, women were told “ The closer he gets, the better you look ”.
The horse should be allowed a short break, before being suddenly asked to gallop his fastest away from other horses.
" When asked to sum up the experience of the film overall, he responded by saying that the closest he could come was like " if you flew down to Tijuana and suddenly saw a painting on black velvet of Auschwitz.
When the circus owner suddenly died, his widow asked the then 18-year-old Gunther to train and take over which began his career as an animal trainer.
The doorbell suddenly rings ; it turns out to be Jackson and her dancers, who are asked to be let in.

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