Example sentences of "ask [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So what have you been up to ? ’ he asked finally to crack the silence . |
| 2 | Mr Kumar made comments about referee Roger Wiseman , who asked not to officiate again this season after being struck on the head by a fan when trouble erupted at the end of Birmingham 's Third Division game against Stoke on Feb 29 . |
| 3 | Obstetricians , too , have been shocked when women asked not to have an enema . |
| 4 | Well , you 've got the list of names and er , I think Mrs was quite right in asking not to read them all out . |
| 5 | Now , having been stuck behind the desk for weeks at a time , he does n't need asking twice to unlock the cases and parade his collection … |
| 6 | ‘ We still get dozens of calls from people asking how to join the cycling club , ’ says 72-year-old secretary Tommy Jennings . |
| 7 | And now everyone is wandering around asking how to live . |
| 8 | Sydney Samuelson , the British Film Commissioner , whose father opened a cinema in Southport in 1910 , said his association with the industry had been so long that he remembered receiving a letter signed Wil Napoleon asking how to become an extra . |
| 9 | That was that really … open flood gates … goal 2 … ball over the top for Wallace who went from 25 yds into the right of te area and finished absolutely brilliantly … goal 3 corner from right Strachan talking to the kop asking where to place it … hits it long … comes back to him he hits it it bobbles out to the left edge of the area where Speed hits it along the ground . |
| 10 | And erm I asked around to see if anyone else was interested in doing the same kind of thing . |
| 11 | And so we had discussions with them and I can tell you , you know , it was at least six months before the consultants ever made any specific move to introduce the system as such er because of our overtures to them , because of the fact that we asked regularly to meet them and to consult on various points . |
| 12 | It asks for open vindication , he wrote , but I ask only to do my task . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've asked enough to keep me talking for a month . |
| 14 | It has n't stopped him making guest appearances and recordings with western orchestras , and he is no longer in a position where he 's asked only to conduct Russian music — ‘ Berlioz and Beethoven with British orchestras were far more interesting propositions for me than , for example , Tchaikovsky , because you remember too much the way Russian orchestras play Tchaikovsky with the huge sound and the heaviness and the passion ’ . |
| 15 | In subsequent weeks , the women were asked merely to record the food and drink they consumed during binges and to note whether or not vomiting or laxative abuse had occurred . |
| 16 | You know I dug the information out again , I 've had a read through of it , and it actually says , were asked just to record all your , all your conversations . |
| 17 | On return a bath , and a final word with the Guard Commander , Whom I ask not to wake me up unless something goes ‘ bang ’ . |
| 18 | The battle of words in a takeover bid for an engineering firm is hotting up — with shareholders being asked not to sell out to a cheap offer . |
| 19 | In 1942 you were asked not to exceed 5 inches of water in your bath to save fuel . |
| 20 | Members of the public are expressly asked not to gather on Albert Road or Russell Street , or to climb on buildings to try to see inside the Mayor 's parlour . |
| 21 | Asked not to touch her , he replied : ‘ It 's my way because I 'm Italian . ’ |
| 22 | At football matches , parents were asked not to cheer . |
| 23 | Cyclists are asked not to lean bicycles against adjacent shop fronts . |
| 24 | We have been asked not to say anything for security reasons . |
| 25 | Priestley supported them and made it well known , so much so that he was asked not to attend the dinner — just in case . |
| 26 | Cyclists are now asked not to use the route from 10am to 5pm and the response has been excellent . |
| 27 | mhm Yes but surely I mean when the Council has been asked not to overspend . |
| 28 | All subjects were asked not to take any drug during the two days before the study . |
| 29 | Sitting on a stone wall she listened to tourists who sprawled on grass where they were asked not to encroach . |
| 30 | While members were asked not to behave in a representative manner , the source of their nomination ( councils , fellow doctors , nurses and trade unionists ) made it very difficult for them not to consider ramifications on their constituencies . |