Example sentences of "ask [pers pn] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So ask me a question . |
| 2 | Ask me a question and engage me in conversation or make a statement that applies to me . |
| 3 | Dad ask me a joke . |
| 4 | He treats his actors as equals , and if he ask you a question , it 's because he wants an answer — not because he 's testing you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Will you be offended if I ask you a question ? ’ |
| 6 | Believe it or not many people , not many people do actually read them , but school teachers and engineers , the ana , the analytical minds , they read the damn things , and when they come back they ask you a question , and you say , I do n't know , I 've never read it . |
| 7 | S ask you a question . |
| 8 | I wonder if I could just take a step back in conclusion and ask you a couple of rather broader questions , more general questions . |
| 9 | And then you they ask you a number of questions , often pretty stupid questions , they go away and write a bit which contains some errors , or they broadcast a bit which does n't seem quite right , and then you feel cross and you say ‘ I 'm never going to speak to that lot again . ’ |
| 10 | BECAUSE I AM INTERVIEWING DUDLEY MOORE to talk about his piano playing and his tour of the country with the BBC Concert Orchestra and his jazz trio , I ask him a question about his piano playing . |
| 11 | The main questions you ask , the more he 'll believe , he do n't ask , it 's , it 's , it 's all about , this is what I 'm saying about erm reacting , eh when basically what you would is you 'd make a statement , tell him something and then ask him a question , which is what you did anyway , but I do n't know if you 're always aware of what you 're doing , you 're doing , you do it naturally , selling is about making statements and then asking questions , you do it when you telephone customers all the time |
| 12 | You ask him a question . |
| 13 | Or ask her a bit later . |
| 14 | and you ask her a question |
| 15 | Just ask her a couple of times whether she had a bath this morning and she will immediately be reduced to the anxious teenager she once was , surreptitiously sniffing her armpits and combing chemists for bottles of Charlie . |
| 16 | When people ask us a question some of us always tell the truth and some of us always tell the opposite . |