StringNet search result

Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] ask " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	There have been people writing in asking for her fans to stop making excuses for her .
2	His dad who was always popping in asking if anyone wanted to come down the pub — he was always off to the pub — also wrote the lyrics to our first song , ‘ Scarface ’ They were truly horrendous : ‘ Scarface , scarface , scarred from ear to ear , Scarface , the girls do n't even care .
3	The tradition is then perpetuated through the standard textbooks and is transmitted in teaching by asking students to ‘ do it my way ’ .
4	Amid interruptions from the telephone and boys coming into to ask for help , he talked about the parish , which is the poorest in Los Angeles .
5	lo I 've got this big problem really about people like you coming on asking for pianos .
6	And anyway so we went to er over to Egypt and then it was when we came back and I I , the other morning on the radio they was talking about asking people to ring in about , I 've never rang in , I never bother ring , er how they spent their twenty first birthday .
7	They keep you talking by asking questions in order to attempt to engage your interest in whatever they are selling .
8	Those thinking about asking for funding might find it useful to look at the SOED booklet referred to above .
9	But it would be only for a time and she had been thinking of asking the queen-dowager for permission to leave sanctuary and visit her mother .
10	I was thinking of asking Monica if she could record something from the the Model Car Club and
11	‘ No , but I 'm thinking of asking Tim for the truth . ’
12	He 'd been thinking of asking one of the two who had entered the front room during Slater 's monologue — the more attractive of them — for a dance even as Slater was telling him how desirable Richard Slater was .
13	It 's usually trivial , like things not being put back in their right place , or borrowing without asking .
14	So I 'm gon na ask both of you for a word specially in a moment to describe what it was like for that girl in the jungle .
15	So what I 'm gon na ask you to do in a minute is to line up in threes .
16	They 're not gon na ask , Jez .
17	I was gon na ask Sue if can I
18	Ah I was just gon na ask you that .
19	I 'm gon na ask Moira to do the cheque , write the cheque .
20	Erm the work with two students , very often the one that I 'm not working with can be learning more , because they 're not sort of , ooh he 's gon na ask me a question .
21	I do n't think most of these questions apply to you actually because they 're mostly like for the kind of older women , I was gon na ask them about how they er coped with the , you know , running a house and
22	‘ I 'm gon na ask you something , right ?
23	So , at the end of the debate I 'm gon na ask the C E C speaker , in this case it will be the general secretary , John , to repl reply to the whole of the er , the debate .
24	I knew he was gon na ask me that !
25	Er , first of all , we 're gon na have a debate which I would term as politics , which will take in motion three nine seven , the Labour Party , motion three nine eight , Sponsored Members of Parliament , and then I go , gon na ask the deputy General Secretary , Tom to respond to that particular debate , then Party and Union links , there 'll be the C E C statement .
26	Well I was just actually gon na ask you about about what you did afore it .
27	Erm but I 'm hoping that one day he 'll see I know he 's seen my work and I think I 've got a sneaking suspicion that when he came in here he was gon na ask me to do it .
28	Other companies are gon na ask why 'd you get fired ?
29	When I was in hospital , one of the things I said to Terry was : ‘ If they want my breast , I 'm gon na ask for it back in a jar ! ’
30	Er the disappointment obviously is oil services , so to begin I 'm gon na ask David , who as I said is Chairman of our Oil Services Division Camco to address this straight away .