Example sentences of "asking [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had written letters home and to his fiancée with poems asking them not to weep at his grave . |
| 2 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 3 | The court heard that her husband had become suspicious early last year and had gone to the National Westminster bank asking them not to release any further cheque books . |
| 4 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 5 | The press could provide little enlightenment because all newspapers had received a D-Notice asking them not to print any details about the background to the case . |
| 6 | Indeed , this union had a campaign of sending postcards out to MPs asking them not to vote for the abolition of Wage Councils . |
| 7 | Darlington transport committee heard yesterday Mr Drury has to write frequently to parents asking them not to park near the entrance . |
| 8 | Afterwards viewers sent a deluge of complaints about how boring the show was and asking them never to return to the Hacienda . |
| 9 | ‘ My time was being taken up by people asking me either to find them a folly or a buyer for some extraordinary building , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 10 | ‘ We are quite capable of running our own piggy bank , without asking someone else to do it for us . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ All it means is you ca n't sort yourself out and you are asking somebody else to do it for you . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I can only go along with you , but I 'm still asking you not to leave until Dana does . |
| 13 | There are still major tailbacks there , though , and the police are asking you still to avoid it . |
| 14 | That is why I am asking you now to become a Friend of Save the Children . |
| 15 | The next day she left for Amsterdam , earlier than expected , after asking him not to try to get in touch with her there . |
| 16 | But , eh listen , if , do n't be frighten if there 's anything that you do n't know do n't you be frightened of asking him how to do it |
| 17 | Confused , she agreed , and wrote a letter confessing the weakness to a friend outside , asking her not to tell the stonyhearts at Suffragette Headquarters . |