Example sentences of "ask [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | only your mother was n't sure she asked me on the phone |
| 2 | ‘ Why , you 'll start by asking everyone on the Woodfield Estate , and if we still have n't found him , we 'll work our way through the rest of town . |
| 3 | First of all , many people have been asking me on this programme in the past what credentials you people on the Council have for setting a budget . |
| 4 | Those are the sort of questions that the radio interviewer is asking you on behalf of the , the great British public . |
| 5 | In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened , he asked her on no account to tell his father , the prime minister , but to arrange payments on the instalment plan of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables . |
| 6 | Linda asked her on a sudden impulse . |
| 7 | As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was . |
| 8 | A master asked him on one occasion whether a word was nominative or dative , and back came his answer : ‘ I do n't really care , sir ! ’ |
| 9 | Present Arsenal chairman Denis Hill-Wood says : ‘ If we asked him after a game what he thought of so-and-so 's performance he would say , ‘ Ask me on Monday . ’ |
| 10 | The first thing they ask me on the 1st tee is , ‘ Billy , tell me all about your family . ' ’ |
| 11 | Do n't ask me now , ask me on a rainy day in London . ’ |
| 12 | I think it 's unfair to anybody to show up with a tape recorder and ask them on the spot cos it puts them on the spot . |
| 13 | Special thanks too Gordon for sharing the whole weekend with us , and I ask you on his behalf to pray for the people of Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've asked everything on that list ? ’ |
| 15 | Remarks ( i ) If the reader feels we have gone to a lot of trouble to establish a result which is " obvious " we ask him on what grounds he bases his belief i this result ? |
| 16 | Yes , it was true a woman must marry any man who asks her on Remembering Night — by order of the Star Council . |
| 17 | Sorge had asked him on the way out of Washington . |
| 18 | ‘ How the hell did they get to England ? ’ the Exec Director had asked him on the phone . |
| 19 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 20 | Go ask it on the mountain . |
| 21 | ‘ I wish to ask you a question , and ask it on your allegiance to God , the King and this Order . ’ |
| 22 | The deputé , in a supplementary question , asks what on earth the minister means by ‘ Belgian ’ and demands that he clarify this category which he says he does not recognise . |
| 23 | ‘ Please ask us on your boat . |
| 24 | Oh God , Grant please ask us on your boat . |
| 25 | Please God , ask us on your boat … ’ |
| 26 | When I caught up , Ann was still obviously very distressed and I asked what on earth was wrong . |
| 27 | ‘ And would n't you think just one person would be glad to help me ? ’ she wailed when Ellie asked what on earth was the matter . |
| 28 | It was further submitted by Mr. Coghlan that it is important in this field that the law should be clear and simple : it is for a coroner to ask himself on any given state of fact whether he would describe the death as unnatural or not . |
| 29 | That 's what I was going to ask you on those things . |
| 30 | Miguel 's going to ask him on the night — out of the blue . |