Example sentences of "[pron] could not ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer has his characters busy washing sheets , making beds , tidying cupboards , and Christ and his apostles appear in Cookham as though attending a summer regatta- ’ ‘ Fine , ’ he says , rising from his chair , ‘ I could n't ask for more proof of realism , of everyday life … |
| 2 | Chief Inspector , I understand what you 're getting at , but I could n't ask the man where he got his money from , could I ? |
| 3 | I could n't ask for a more caring and loving bunch of people . |
| 4 | ‘ I could n't ask him in , could I ? |
| 5 | So I could n't ask you to come … |
| 6 | I could n't ask her to sit down as I can when I 'm doing a portrait of someone I know . |
| 7 | With Tim here I could n't ask him . ’ |
| 8 | " Not a chance darling , and I could n't ask because — guess what — they 've put Deer Forest on the market , and " — the thought of others always first — " I wonder if they always have quite enough to eat . " |
| 9 | ‘ I could n't ask just anyone . ’ |
| 10 | But hearing that you were blind , I could n't ask , it seemed all wrong . |
| 11 | ‘ I could n't ask you to stay , ’ John says . |
| 12 | ‘ I could n't ask anybody to love me , ’ John says . |
| 13 | I did n't see her until this afternoon , and I could n't ask her then , not just before her operation . |
| 14 | Yeah I said cos I could n't ask him to do for nothing . |
| 15 | I could not ask . |
| 16 | I could not ask further questions . |
| 17 | I came to see you myself because I could not ask another person to tell my story . |
| 18 | Well I could not ask you before . |
| 19 | She could not ask Rachel to help her . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But she could not ask Lubor anything about the man who attracted her so . |
| 22 | But she knew she could n't ask while Gloria was still getting herself straight inside . |
| 23 | Dot did n't mind about the toys and she knew she could n't ask for ginger pop because that cost money but she would have liked to have had her victory token back . |
| 24 | She could n't ask him to stay then yell at him for caring for her . |
| 25 | Hari looked down at Craig 's bowed shoulders , she could n't ask him to leave not now . |
| 26 | Because he had refused to be paid she could n't ask him to come back again to deal with the seepage . |
| 27 | She could n't ask Aunt Sarah or Uncle Nick to help ; there was no way of explaining it to them without sounding crazy . |
| 28 | She knew her father would lend her whatever she needed to cancel her debt to Nathan Bryce , but she could n't ask him . |
| 29 | It seemed crazy that she could n't ask outright — claim the relationship which was almost certainly hers . |
| 30 | But she could n't ask , and she looked away from him , her glance falling on the flowers on the poet Mácha 's statue . |