Example sentences of "not ask him " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We 're not asking him to . |
2 | If we come in , you ought to be kind to him and not ask him to sacrifice his health by taking office . " |
3 | He was known to be ‘ worried about Marcus ’ , but Franca had not asked him exactly what the worry was . |
4 | His parents had not asked him what sort of holiday he had had or how the flight had been . |
5 | Asked if Mellor 's ‘ gag ’ had now been lifted , the professor laughed : ‘ I 've not asked him . ’ |
6 | I had not asked him for anything , nor had I expected anything . |
7 | She wondered idly why Rose had not asked him to apply the sun-cream and then realised that he was not among the swimmers . |
8 | Do not ask him to admire anything . |
9 | ‘ Why not ask him ! ’ |
10 | ‘ Will he have sweet or dry sherry ? ’ or ‘ Where is the pain he complains of ? ’ make it your golden rule to reply , ‘ Why not ask him ? ’ |
11 | Artemis did n't understand what he meant , but dared not ask him . |
12 | She did not ask him his name , for she did not wish to know it . |
13 | Since I was not going to discuss the future with him , I did not ask him to elaborate , but I registered his disappointment and thought that , if that was how he felt , he was making it easier for me to leave him . |
14 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
15 | She dare not ask him whether his proposal was thereby withdrawn . |
16 | I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit . |
17 | David looked rather odd as she said that , but he left so quickly that she could not ask him anything about it and picked up her book to absorb the time until Annunziata brought in her supper . |
18 | Maybe I shall hear full soon enough , but I dare not ask him about the poor lady . |
19 | She did not ask him why he wanted to speak to them . |
20 | She had to find out whether her suspicions were true or not , and how else could she ever hope to do that if she did not ask him directly ? |
21 | No , I am dealing with the Foreign Secretary , who gave me a circumlocutory reply to a question that I did not ask him . |
22 | We can not ask him , because he is not here , but it is an important question , to which his constituents have a right to know his answer . |
23 | This was the one question Robert had been hoping the headmaster would not ask him . |
24 | ‘ Why not ask him yourself ? ’ |
25 | He followed her into the living-room but she did not ask him to sit down . |