Example sentences of "he did [adv] ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rose went to bed , ’ Mona answered without looking up from her books and though the boy thought about it for a while he did not ask anything further . |
| 2 | He did not ask at what . |
| 3 | He did not ask for mercy ; he did not plead extenuation : he was here , he said , ‘ to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime , and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ He did not ask for any special treatment . ’ |
| 5 | She wondered a little resentfully why he did not ask her to go , though she would have been scared if he actually had done so ; she lacked a North American youngster 's experience with the opposite sex . |
| 6 | He did not ask himself , as in my view he ought , whether on the undisputed evidence this might be a case for a verdict of death aggravated by lack of care . |
| 7 | Robert informed her ( he did not ask ) that the wedding would be in Flaxthorpe . |
| 8 | In fact he did not ask us any questions at all , but read aloud from Shakespeare , waving his arms dramatically and enjoying the sound of his own voice . |
| 9 | I had assumed he would still want me to be his wife , and wondered why he did not ask me . |
| 10 | The student should not assume facts contrary to those stated in the problem for the purpose of giving the examiner a piece of information for which he did not ask . |
| 11 | He did not ask for independence and never attempted to repudiate the suzerainty of the sultan . |
| 12 | And that piece of undeniable truth was , perhaps , a mistake , too , for Dr Neil was not so drunk that he did not ask , without a pause , ‘ And what happened to them , McAllister , when you lost your parents and your fortune ? ’ |
| 13 | He did not ask : how much can I earn in a day if I do as much work as possible ? but how much must I work in order to earn the wage which I earned before and which takes care of my traditional needs ? … |
| 14 | These PMR systems were even less secure than land lines so he did not ask what the problem was . |
| 15 | He did not ask . |
| 16 | He did not ask . |
| 17 | He did not ask her to sit down but said to her straightaway , ‘ What has she told you ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Pimm 's … ’ she said huskily , grateful he did not ask any painful questions , questions she could not have answered . |
| 19 | And she was promising nothing to him , either ; he knew that was what she meant , but he did not ask for anything . |
| 20 | He did n't ask where she went . |
| 21 | He did n't ask about my health . |
| 22 | He was a professional ; he did n't ask why . |
| 23 | He did n't ask who it was and I did n't tell him . |
| 24 | He did n't ask me who I was . |
| 25 | He wished them happiness , but he did n't ask them to come home . |
| 26 | ‘ He did n't ask to leave the field . |
| 27 | He did n't ask for secrecy ; he did n't ask for anything . |
| 28 | He did n't ask for secrecy ; he did n't ask for anything . |
| 29 | He did n't ask what they did or said every morning , but left it to Bacci to report any snippet of information he managed to get from her . |
| 30 | In retrospect , Ken is a little unhappy that he did n't ask his belayer to place the pegs so it could have been an on-sight flash . |