Example sentences of "[vb past] ask [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prof Pikas said his methods were non-accusatory , and involved asking the bully for a solution to the problem , bringing together the bully and the victim , and discussing ways they can live together . |
| 2 | When I tried asking the girls I interviewed about them I was often met with a shrug , or a short ‘ no problem ’ reply , as if periods were nothing at all , of no significance , and certainly none to a book on looks , fashion and body-image . |
| 3 | At the head of the valley we reached a tiny settlement and stopped to ask the way . |
| 4 | No one stopped to ask the boy what he wanted , which was to study science and work in the field of research . |
| 5 | As she reached the outskirts of the town she stopped to ask the way , and then discovered that the traffic on the road past the White Lion was being diverted because of an accident . |
| 6 | I tried to ask the Prime Minister , in a parliamentary question , to give details of the additional charters in the various service areas which arise directly from his own citizens charter and to say when each of the new charters would be published . |
| 7 | ‘ What is warm ? ’ said the penguin , her voice shaking : she 'd asked every penguin in the colony and had her beak almost snapped off every time . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd asked the headmaster for permission and he replied : ‘ She 's going to end up doing that sort of thing anyway ’ , ’ says Falvey . |
| 9 | Nicola is such a brilliant student I 'd asked the Royal Ballet to give her an audition . ’ |
| 10 | There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been . |
| 11 | He suddenly wished , with an almost desperate fervour , that he 'd asked the names of Karen 's daughters . |
| 12 | As soon as he 'd asked the question , Culley knew the answer . |
| 13 | What else is there to do in Kimblesworth , we 'd asked the taxi driver on the way from Durham railway station ? |
| 14 | Aye I said , so she said the landlord 's never put it down so we thought he 'd have had it down by she come home cos Alison seen it and where they work and th and there 's a room there or something and she 'd asked the boss could she have it for the bathroom . |
| 15 | cos to be really eager because she said erm that she 'd asked the bloke about staying on permanently and everything and he said that it seemed the people who they were most impress impressed with after Christmas that can stay on permanently so we said on the end , you 've got ta be really eager and everything so she apparently was asking loads of questions |
| 16 | In the absence of feeling able to make any encouraging remark about the future of his and Rosemary 's love for each other , though , Leith opted to ask a fairly negative , ‘ Are you feeling any better today ? ’ |
| 17 | And I came to ask the doctor if I could get H R T. And she took my blood pressure and it was too high |
| 18 | He turned to ask the Headmaster something but he had disappeared . |
| 19 | Her conversation is always worth listening to , and I completely forgot to ask the name of the dark , proud girl . |
| 20 | For a while they strolled in silence before Corbett began to ask the Prior about his vocation to the monastic life , enjoying the sardonic replies and surprised to find that the Prior was both a distant kinsman to Robert Bruce and a keen herbalist , interested in medicine , with a passion for concocting samples , potions and cures . |
| 21 | ‘ High time someone started asking a few awkward questions , ’ says his neighbour , who turns out to be an expert in Moral Law . |
| 22 | Heather Mallender started asking the same sort of questions you 're asking — and look what happened to her . |
| 23 | Now these limits were fatal , they believed that they could win the war through air power and they , they could n't and the ground casualties , although fairly slight , when you think of it fifty thousand people killed is not a bi a large amount in a major war , far from it erm although erm militarily not that significant , politically they were devastating because people in America started to ask the question , what is this war for ? |
| 24 | Miss Honey now decided to ask a question that normally she would not have dreamed of asking the class on its first day . |
| 25 | In the end the drinkers decided to ask the barmaid if the great hoofer was still with us . |
| 26 | That committee by a majority of three to two decided to ask the court to require the health authority to continue to provide all available treatment to J. including ‘ intensive resuscitation . ’ |
| 27 | They decided to ask the County Education Committee to dismiss Outram at once , though there were disagreements among them over the rights and wrongs of sex education . |
| 28 | McNeill was reluctant to accept because it meant asking the club for 14 tickets . |
| 29 | From Councillor Paolo Vestri , Convenor of the Recreation Committee of Edinburgh District Council , stating that the agreement reached to ask the Planning Department to pursue a compulsory purchase order on the tennis court site does not include the Cooking Centre . |
| 30 | In yet another case quoted by Afshan , the girl went to ask the help of someone regarded as a community leader . |