Example sentences of "[pron] can [adv] ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We get plenty of people in here identifying cadavers — I ca n't ask to see the credentials of every one . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't ask you in . |
| 3 | They keep picking on me , but I ca n't ask a teacher to help . |
| 4 | And we really need two men out there , but I ca n't ask more of them than they 're doing ; they 're making up for one short as it is . |
| 5 | I ca n't ask you to risk it too . |
| 6 | Now wo er erm , I ca n't ask you whether it was the happiest day of your life because only sixty nine of you would know . |
| 7 | I ca n't ask my wife for any more at the moment . ’ |
| 8 | I ca n't ask you to help me . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ No , I ca n't ask you to stay with me , ’ she whispered . |
| 10 | Emmie said , ‘ I ca n't ask Dad for money for a vet . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't ask you — a guest — ’ Silas began stiffly . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've nothing to add except to say that I 'm surprised no one 's tried to squeeze more out of me since and I apologize for the fact that there 's only one chair here so I ca n't ask you to sit down . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , as I ca n't ask him … ’ |
| 14 | I ca n't ask Julie after yesterday can I ? |
| 15 | Oh she said I 'll be going up tomorrow but I , I , I ca n't ask her , I did n't ought to but I ca n't ca n't ask her nothing , in n it funny . |
| 16 | Why I wo n't will I , I wo n't ask them where you 'll be will I , cos you wo n't be there , so I ca n't ask you can I ? |
| 17 | Well I could I could er I could probably take on that task if you wish , cos it 's easy enough to actually write letters to people , cos I can just ask my secretary to do that . |
| 18 | Finally , Chair , if I can just ask members to turn briefly to page C one , the first blue page . |
| 19 | If I can just ask you about er your family |
| 20 | Er if I can just ask you about your wife |
| 21 | I can not ask you to judge . |
| 22 | I can not ask her to suffer further for what may never be . |
| 23 | ‘ I can not ask you to become the senior member of the board ; that place I reserve for myself , and there is also Lessing whom you have not met . |
| 24 | I said , ‘ Lilya , I can not ask Semenov , because the KGB has me completely surrounded , and no-one can fight against them . |
| 25 | But if the literary text says , ‘ The door was open ’ I can not ask the text what it means by saying that the door was open , I can only speculate about the significance of that door — opened by what agency , leading to what discovery , mystery , goal ? |
| 26 | ‘ But I can not ask for any more from the players than the performances they are giving me and one or two are starting to show their true form . ’ |
| 27 | I can easily ask Feargal to take me tomorrow . ’ |
| 28 | I can now ask er Geoffrey to second the motion , please . |
| 29 | I can only ask why , ’ said survivor Michael Tassel . |
| 30 | I had visited his tomb in Westminster Abbey before starting on this trip , and read the words there , from the last entry in his diary : ‘ Here in my solitude , I can only ask God 's blessing on the men — whether British , American or Turk — who will help to heal this open sore of the world . ’ |