Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] ask a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Please forgive me , Mrs Hatton , if I ask a few routine questions , ’ he said . |
| 2 | If I ask an engineer how a steam engine works , I have a pretty fair idea of the general kind of answer that would satisfy me . |
| 3 | If you ask a user what sort of system he wants you will be met with a blank look . |
| 4 | if you ask a subordinate to write you a report explain that you are expecting it by a specific date and always with a one page management summary |
| 5 | If you ask a roomful of people whether anyone has not had any sleep in the previous twenty-four hours , it is very rare indeed to find a serious candidate . |
| 6 | If you ask a question to the group who 's intending who can tend to ask for it ? |
| 7 | Erm now he talks about the vanguards of revolutions i it 's just his distinction between the types of of peasant erm he looks at the rich peasants first of all and originally they 're , they 're not into revolution at all , you know , they do n't want to join peasant associations because they 've got nothing to gain erm as er er had said before , you know , p if you ask a rich peasant to join he 's gon na say well , you know , I 've never heard of such a thing before , you know , I 've , I can manage to live alright , I advise you to gi er give it up or alternatively he may just say , you know , good God no , you know , it 's too dangerous I , I do n't want to be knocked off by my landlord . |
| 8 | Would you like me to , yes , maybe ha , if you ask a question and have n't established what ? |
| 9 | If you ask an establishment figure these days about arms dealers they will tell you , ‘ I 'm sorry darling , but there really are n't any . ’ |
| 10 | If we ask a large sample of managers to rank these six goal categories in terms of their relative importance to them ( on a scale from unimportant to very important , the aggregated responses for each goal providing a range from 0 to 100 ) then we can produce the bar chart shown in Figure 1.1 . |
| 11 | Yet it is not too hard to imagine how a computer parsing program might achieve some such effect : if we ask an English speaker how he does it , we may well get some reply like ‘ Well , I 'm simply looking for a sense of the word related to drinking , are n't I ? ’ |
| 12 | You talk to me only when I ask a question . ’ |
| 13 | So , for example , when I ask a group of students at the beginning of an interdisciplinary course in women 's writing and the visual arts , to come up with the names of any contemporary women artists , they can rarely mention more than one or two . |
| 14 | Enthusiasts however , may have to be gently discouraged from making too many demands on your time and that when you ask a question you are not automatically expecting any action . |
| 15 | Some months later I got a cheque for six hundred dollars — apparently a programme in America had done a feature on what can happen when you ask a stupid question and that was my fee for being included . |