Example sentences of "ask [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 2 | They asked to see some . |
| 3 | She asked to borrow some shears . |
| 4 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 5 | The agency asked to hire some transparencies of the 1950s . |
| 6 | ‘ Not a day goes by , Willoughby , without your coming in here asking to join some crack-brained new outfit dreamed up by cranks at the War Office . |
| 7 | Most of us , asked to name some famous scientists , would think immediately of physicists Newton and Einstein , for example . |
| 8 | Of course some boys may be asked to perform some or all of these tasks , but I think that ( for historical rather than biological reasons ) the task of substitute-mothering is more likely to devolve upon a girl than upon a boy who is in a similar position within the family . |
| 9 | Ask to see some identification . |
| 10 | SHOPPERS in Darlington are being asked to spare some love on Valentine 's Day for hungry Russian children . |
| 11 | Wolfgang was asked to write some music for the prestigious Concert Spirituel , the most important concert society in Paris . |
| 12 | The demarcation itself can be finally ratified by the president after the land has been physically staked out , a large and time-consuming task for which the Brazilian congress has been asked to provide some 42 million . |
| 13 | You will almost certainly be asked to provide some kind of identification when you go to the hire shop — and do n't be surprised if you have your photograph taken ! |
| 14 | I was asked to refit some buttons which has come apart on a settee cushion . |
| 15 | While waiting for a flight she was asked to do some translating at one of the jungle lodges . |
| 16 | Once the actual follow-on treatment begins , however , he will definitely be asked to do some work on his own at home . |
| 17 | He tells me about how he had to leave a Walthamstow pub in embarrassment when he was asked to do some karaoke , and then asked for his autograph . |
| 18 | She only dreaded that she might be asked to give some positive details of the scheme she and Andrew supposedly envisaged . |
| 19 | It is widely expected that bondholders will then be asked to convert some of their holdings into a new convertible preference share . |
| 20 | Sometimes he managed to abstract a page he particularly liked and take it home , He had a whole article on a young actress who had been asked to model some clothes . |
| 21 | When managers are asked to describe some of their problem employees they often use phrases like : lazy ; poor motivation ; negative attitude ; obstructive ; aggressive and so on . |
| 22 | If you 're asked to analyse some concept , it wo n't be sufficient merely to describe it . |
| 23 | In the second year of the war , he was asked to deliver some lectures at Bangor — the University College , North Wales — and he chose as his theme Milton 's Paradise Lost . |
| 24 | I 'd half-expected the door to be on a chain or to be asked to push some ID through the letter-box before she opened up . |
| 25 | You were asked to collect some data on wheat and cotton . |
| 26 | To oversimplify : very young children of both sexes were given similar sets of building blocks with which they were asked to construct some sort of dwelling . |
| 27 | During the visits of the programme monitors , the mothers would be asked to prepare some LGS , a sample of which was collected and taken to a laboratory where the concentration of sodium ions was measured . |
| 28 | Having made all your garment type selections , you will then be asked to enter some of the basic measurements for the garment , such as the chest measurements , overall length , upper arm measurement , sleeve length and so on . |
| 29 | He had been asked to speak some months ago on the subject , ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ . |
| 30 | In view of all this it is perhaps not surprising that current practice often includes a system of settlement , under which the member is asked to admit some or all of the charges without a formal hearing . |