Example sentences of "[coord] ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children are often not allowed to go to funerals nor allowed to talk or ask questions about the person who has died . |
| 2 | Still Daalny lingered , as if minded to say or ask something more , her thin oval face sharply alert and her eyes half-veiled but very bright within the long dark lashes . |
| 3 | The realisation that the lift was carrying them upwards instead of down made her heart jump horribly , and it went on fluttering febrilely as she stole a look at Luke , standing so still and confident at her side , and knowing , damn him , that she could n't bring herself to protest or ask questions in front of an audience . |
| 4 | I wanted the sugar and rather than wait for the waiter to return or ask this boy to get it , I asked Harvey for the sugar . |
| 5 | The classical recourse of the bourgeois in trouble or with cause for complaint was to exercise or ask for personal influence : to have a word with the mayor , the deputy , the minister , the old school or college comrade , the kinsman or business contact . |
| 6 | He can still settle or ask the court to award damages on the old basis of including something for the future risk . |
| 7 | when he comes , gon na ask or ask |
| 8 | I could just try and ask people . |
| 9 | If I were to begin to manage another major artist , and Mark Knopfler were to ring up and ask me to get the band back together for an album and a world tour , something would have to suffer . |
| 10 | ‘ Sometimes at the weekend Mr Rosenbloom would come and ask me to iron his shirts . |
| 11 | I 'll go over and ask the chap who gave us our instructions yesterday . |
| 12 | The rustling of packaging caused him to sigh and ask the computer to turn up the sound . |
| 13 | When people heard the tolling of the local church bell , they would go outside and ask ‘ for whom the bell tolls ? ’ |
| 14 | For this is to understand my experience in a certain way , a way that others can challenge and ask me to explain . |
| 15 | More often Hanka Zborowska switched the lights off and they pretended to be out so that Modigliani would not come up and ask for an advance on the next day 's work . |
| 16 | This exercise is rendered easier to perform by the fact that Charles is not lying beside her to observe and ask ironic questions about it . |
| 17 | He wanted to ask and ask . |
| 18 | Other things , John would see and ask , ‘ Can I afford to buy that ? ’ — as when he fell in love with two leather suitcases he saw in a Munich shop window . |
| 19 | Here , she would think and ask herself , again and again , what lay in the future for her ? |
| 20 | I do n't know why the people who argued so much about it did n't go and ask these three what had happened . |
| 21 | They 'd come and ask you for advice and you 'd tell them and help them all you could . |
| 22 | The student will have an opportunity to observe and ask questions . |
| 23 | Rather than forcing the diet on him , you should explain that it might help and ask if he would like to try it . |
| 24 | ‘ Do just pop over and ask them whether Squish and Trouncy can make it under their own steam on Saturday or whether they 'll need a lift . ’ |
| 25 | The most important thing is to stay calm , give yourself time to think and ask for clarification if necessary . |
| 26 | If you are rejected the most constructive thing you can do is to phone or write and ask for the reasons why . |
| 27 | ‘ If ever I 'm that desperate for money I 'll come and ask you for it , ’ she said . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll go and ask your mother . ’ |
| 29 | Most people would n't have even bothered to write and ask an opinion . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'll go and ask your father , ’ she said . |