Example sentences of "ask [pn reflx] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He murmured her name as if he was asking himself a question . |
| 2 | The bar chart that was the result of the survey we did you need to look at that piece of work and ask yourself a question , is this piece of work the best thing I have ever done ? |
| 3 | Members of the jury whilst you 're listening to these officers ask yourself a number of questions as they 're going along . |
| 4 | And ask yourself a question , are they really a sort of dirty Harry or sweeney sort of officers you would be lead to believe . |
| 5 | Still , I said to myself , so she has got a husband after all , because I was beginning to put two and two together and ask myself a few questions . |
| 6 | Here we need to ask ourselves a whole range of questions associated with the ways in which staff are managed in general and about the ways in which appraisal will be managed in the future — for there are choices to be made there in particular . |
| 7 | An easy way to remember how to do this is to ask yourself a question ‘ who or what did the action ? ’ and place the answer before the verb . |
| 8 | The shock of decline has induced Britons to ask themselves a question first posed by Enoch Powell : What kind of people are we ? |
| 9 | One might think that , in those circumstances , Ministers would begin to ask themselves a few basic questions , such as , ’ Where have we gone wrong in Scotland ? |
| 10 | So let's ask ourselves a naïve question . |
| 11 | You will ask yourself a question at this point : ‘ Why should such a being be interested in the routines of my daily life ? |