Example sentences of "[vb mod] ask " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Now I must ask whether you found a master to your liking there ? ’ |
| 32 | But I must ask you to stop washing your hands in the Holy water , and please , please , do not refer to me as Mother Shapiro . ’ |
| 33 | If you feel you often get unnecessarily short shrift in your interviews with professionals a question you must ask yourself is whether you have created an unfavourable impression by wasting their time in the past . |
| 34 | But she must ask ; beg even , or he 'd be knocking on the kitchen door at Jarman House , asking the Lord knew what favours . |
| 35 | You must ask Mr Pinder himself . |
| 36 | We must ask ourselves , ‘ Why did these three young men undertake this task ? ’ |
| 37 | If testing shows that our attachment to Christian friends or to a particular lifestyle is stronger than our attachment to God himself , we must ask whether these supports for faith are in danger of becoming substitutes . |
| 38 | She must ask him round for a drink . |
| 39 | However , if I does well to use a randomised strategy , it seems sensible for II to do likewise and we must ask whether LPI* and LPI are still valid if II is using randomised strategies . |
| 40 | Instead of asking ‘ How do we ever unlearn our native egoism ? ’ we must ask ‘ How near to a true philosophical egoism do we ever succeed in getting ? ’ |
| 41 | And is it worth it , you must ask yourself . |
| 42 | And every time a bolt from the blue heads in your direction , you must ask yourself : What is this trying to awaken me to ? |
| 43 | But the question we must ask is why so many British workers are getting a two-week break when other European workers are making do with just three days ' holiday . |
| 44 | The question we must ask is why the real story has not been given ? |
| 45 | His conclusions are stark : ‘ … a basic profit statement or balance sheet of any company conveys meaningless information … some [ accountants ] are definitely doing conjuring tricks and manipulating figures and the rest hopelessly losing their balance in utter confusion … we must ask ourselves whether we should be constrained by our accounting numbers and take a negative stance which dampens all entrepreneurial spirit . ’ |
| 46 | They were using real brochures , choosing their holidays and working out what questions they must ask . |
| 47 | After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ? |
| 48 | Their thing was that they must ask for more than what they really hoped to get . |
| 49 | But you owe two months ’ rent now and I 'm afraid I must ask you to find other accommodation in a week 's time if this is still outstanding . ’ |
| 50 | He must ask him . |
| 51 | Set yourself a time limit if it helps : ‘ I must ask a question in the first five minutes . ’ |
| 52 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 53 | If — and it is a very big ‘ if ’ — the matter sucked into a black hole must reappear somewhere and somewhen else , we must ask ourselves what the other end of the ‘ tunnel ’ would be like . |
| 54 | But if we want to adopt an approach to family life which is Christ-centred in its essence , we must ask how we are to glorify God in the relationship of parents to children and children to parents . |
| 55 | Once again , we must ask where the stereotype of competitive men and cooperative women comes from . |
| 56 | I must ask Margaret if she remembers him . ’ |
| 57 | For the present , it must suffice to say that Eadmer 's report brings into Rufus 's reign a theme which is wholly lacking in Anselm 's letters , and we must ask whether Eadmer is not , here as elsewhere , reading back into Rufus 's reign the lessons which he and Anselm were to learn in the course of their joint exile . |
| 58 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 59 | As far as those artists go you must ask in each case what proportion of their careers were actually spent here and did their stay in America fundamentally affect their work ? |
| 60 | This is obtainable from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food and you must ask for a form to fill in as early as possible before the trip . |