Example sentences of "[verb] to ask [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The $64,000 question which one has to ask about this inflexible regulation is — WHY ? |
| 2 | It was n't just for idleness that you came to ask about that rapscallion , was it ? |
| 3 | Mr Erlich , no one came to ask in that village for eyewitnesses … ’ |
| 4 | The first question one tends to ask about any object in a museum is where did it come from ? |
| 5 | Yet the government intends to ask for more food relief this year . |
| 6 | I think he 's going to ask for more . |
| 7 | are they going to ask for this at the end of the installation ? |
| 8 | Well we 're just I 'm just we might have to ask for some money for it . |
| 9 | He yearned to gulp down the coffee that remained , he craved to ask for more . |
| 10 | I shall not give way if the hon. Gentleman wishes to ask about that . |
| 11 | The other Scouts might easily fail to recognize Lexandro and Brothers ; they might fire first and ask questions later , if they bothered to ask at all . |
| 12 | Alongside the notes are the kind of broad historical questions that you need to learn to ask about any topic and which have generated the headings . |
| 13 | But she also remembered to ask for another ten-shilling note a week later . |
| 14 | What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’ |
| 15 | Middlesbrough were portrayed as extravagant young upstarts ( the club had only been in the Football League since 1899 ) , and Sunderland were reproached for daring to ask for such a sum . |
| 16 | Now , what I wish to ask in this book is whether this way of thinking about Britain 's decline is useful and accurate . |
| 17 | Now , what I wish to ask in this book is whether this way of thinking about Britain 's decline is useful and accurate . |
| 18 | A man who represented the regional office of the Prince 's Trust in Truro was ringing to ask for more information about my work . |
| 19 | It 's cheaper at twenty six ninety nine , I had to ask about that cos I could n't see it |
| 20 | Until nine years ago he was heir to one of the biggest private fortunes in America , comfortably in step with the Gettys , Basses and Mellons , but had to ask for enough money to buy a house . |
| 21 | Customers will continue to ask for more — maybe not for higher prices . |
| 22 | However , Randall ( with more concern for principled commercial independence than for the economic logic of external benefits ) refused to ask for such a subvention from central reserve funds for his London Board ( which carried the greatest burden of standardisation expenditure ) . |
| 23 | You see , you must learn to ask for this guidance within on a daily basis . |