Example sentences of "[vb past] to ask [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't just for idleness that you came to ask about that rapscallion , was it ? |
| 2 | Mr Erlich , no one came to ask in that village for eyewitnesses … ’ |
| 3 | He yearned to gulp down the coffee that remained , he craved to ask for more . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But she also remembered to ask for another ten-shilling note a week later . |
| 6 | It 's cheaper at twenty six ninety nine , I had to ask about that cos I could n't see it |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |