Example sentences of "asks [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raskolnikov asks himself after he has helped the Marmeladov family and been in contact with little children . |
| 2 | Goodman ( 1970 , p.36 ) says that ‘ The reader asks himself not only ‘ Do I understand what this means ? ’ but ‘ Do I buy it ? ’ ’ |
| 3 | For he does not allow that there can be someone who genuinely asks himself what he should do in a moral way , but whose answer is in terms of what is only one of various logically coherent moralities . |
| 4 | He asks himself two simple questions ; 1 What is the specific contribution to profit of this resource or expenditure , or in making this decision , or taking this action ? |
| 5 | The field linguist , engaged in radical translation , asks himself under what conditions the natives would assent to a given occasion sentence S , and under what conditions they would dissent . |
| 6 | He asks himself how many of these encounters can be as tricky as his own , with the gorgeous actress , Candice Riberon . |
| 7 | In the opening chapter of the novel , Pierre Bloye , confronted by the corpse of his father , instinctively alienated by the rituals and incantations of an absurd funeral ceremony , despairing at his mother 's willing acquiescence to the arid conventions of petty-bourgeois existence , asks himself the fundamental question : " What sort of a man was my father ? " |
| 8 | But then he asks himself if people would have enjoyed the story any more had it been true , and if they would have achieved any greater insight into themselves and their destinies . |
| 9 | Why are they doing this to me , Keith asks himself , as if he did n't know . |
| 10 | Well , the first book in which Freud explicitly takes up this question in the opening pages , is his book of nineteen twenty seven , er The Future of an Illusion , and his begins , by posing the Hobbesian question , although it does n't mention Hobbes , but , it 's the fundamental point he makes , that civilization goes against the grain of human nature , and the question he asks himself is , how does er , order , morality . |
| 11 | Faced with the same claims about the effect of words like " fair " , the courts today apply a doctrine of " mistake " which precludes all review of the expert 's analysis , unless the expert values the wrong shares or asks himself the wrong question about concepts such as fairness : see Chapter 13 . |
| 12 | An expert can now make a final determination about the construction of documents provided he asks himself the right question . |
| 13 | With outsiders now reduced to promising physical safety , no more , for the Muslim portion of Bosnia 's inhabitants , the world asks itself guiltily what more it could have done . |
| 14 | When an experienced teacher is planning a learning experience , she asks herself at least three questions : |
| 15 | Do I really not want to be well ? the cancer sufferer asks herself . |
| 16 | The first thing to do is to rephrase the question that everyone asks themselves , not ‘ what would I like to grow , what do I want to grow ? ’ but ‘ what do I have space for , and how much time am I prepared to devote to looking after what I plant ? ’ |
| 17 | My dear , you are on the young side — I am only stating a fact , the kind of fact the world sees — to be living in a kind of bachelor 's establishment , so naturally one asks oneself where is that mysterious lady , her mother ? |
| 18 | ‘ Is she being pushed enough , one asks oneself ? ’ |