Example sentences of "ask someone [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , for example , you asked someone not to smoke in your presence ( the right to ask others to respond to your needs and wants ) you need to respect their right to have different needs and wants and , much more difficult , their right to say no . |
| 2 | ‘ We are quite capable of running our own piggy bank , without asking someone else to do it for us . ’ |
| 3 | Ask someone else to justify how much it meant to us . |
| 4 | What could you stop doing , or devote less time to , or ask someone else to do ? |
| 5 | And everybo , when you contract out something , when you ask someone else to do something for you . |
| 6 | You can do this even if you also want to go and speak , or ask someone else to speak for you . |
| 7 | ‘ You can ask someone else to take the file to the vault . ’ |
| 8 | They should n't drink and if they do they should ask someone else to drive . |