Example sentences of "[adv] ask [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just a moment , ’ called out Meredith , and pointedly asked Bunny if it was all right by him . |
| 2 | There is no point in merely asking industry to promote equal opportunities policies . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd better ask Nubenehem . ’ |
| 4 | You better ask grandma . |
| 5 | " I 'd better ask Cowslip what we 're supposed to do about taking some of this stuff back to the warren . " |
| 6 | And t' other week I were up there and I I was just asking woman just as a matter of interest love , I said , how much . |
| 7 | I 'm just asking Professor for my own clarification at this stage , and it is that he does not agree to accept Mr 's addendum . |
| 8 | I could al , soon ask mum to stop you from going in my room if I wanted to . |
| 9 | Just ask dad if I can have the time off before Friday and I 'll find somewhere to go . |
| 10 | Do n't think that releasing it through your local record shop is the answer — just ask DNA what happened when they tried it with their version of Tom 's Diner shortly before the A&M rep visited the shop . |
| 11 | ‘ Just ask Fabbiano about item number eighty-two . |
| 12 | Just ask Spike . |
| 13 | Just ask Fen if you do n't believe me . |
| 14 | THERE is hope beyond soap … just ask actress Eithne Browne who played the much-put-upon housewife Chrissie Rogers . |
| 15 | I had just asked butterfly ecologist Marney Hall whether , since butterflies are getting scarce in this country , a garden like this would really work . |
| 16 | I 've just asked Sister . |
| 17 | PEOPLE in favour of euthanasia will soon ask Parliament to agree a Bill that could open the way to legalised ‘ Mercy Killing ’ . |
| 18 | I knew that they 'd still written me a , a second letter , like asking permission to send it through the erm what do you call it ? |
| 19 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 20 | Always ask service engineers whether their diagnostic disks are ‘ clean ’ , or write-protected at the very least . |
| 21 | I always ask shareware users to put themselves in the place of the author . |
| 22 | He can hardly ask Dad for my hand , can he ? ’ |
| 23 | But er we , we could always ask granddad if we wanted to know anything . |
| 24 | It also asked member states to replace their currencies with the ecu , eventually . |
| 25 | Cray Research Inc. in Minnesota , which has traditionally asked university scientists in the United States to help it to develop software , hopes to work with European scientists to develop specific software . |
| 26 | The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has repeatedly asked Environment Minister Chris Patten for tighter controls to be imposed on biotechnology . |
| 27 | The Adverising Standards Authority is now asking poster contractors to remove Benetton 's latest hoardings . |
| 28 | Ingres is now under the firm charge of ex-DEC European chief and now ASK Group president Pier Carlo Falotti , replacing Dennis McGinn who has taken over responsibility for developing strategic partners for the company . |
| 29 | The Northern Regional Health Authority said it has received the report it had requested from Dr Lawler and had now asked South Tees Health Authority to investigate . |
| 30 | Sheila was emboldened from what she saw the night before to ask Rose when Moran had gone out again . |