Example sentences of "[verb] ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 2 | I had misunderstood the name of the film , and not dared ask too many questions . |
| 3 | Her fellow passenger 's action showed she had also lost her royal mystique and air of untouchability — after all , no one would previously have dared ask the future queen for an autograph . |
| 4 | How she had got that name no-one dared ask . |
| 5 | Fran hardly dared ask , but that cold unease that was setting down roots forced her to . |
| 6 | I did n't dare ask . |
| 7 | He did n't dare ask how far the other side of Atherton . |
| 8 | It was all she wanted to know and did not dare ask directly . |
| 9 | She asked , knowing the importance of the question , knowing , too , that only she would dare ask it , ‘ Will you be very disappointed if you do n't get the job ? ’ |
| 10 | He longed to know what she meant , what dreadful thing she had done — it sounded more interesting , to his mind , than Druids or Screaming Skulls — but did n't dare ask her . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't you dare ask , ’ Carrie warned , but he stuck out his tongue and ran ahead , unafraid in the daylight , down the path through the Grove . |
| 12 | But she did n't dare ask him about Spiderglass and what he was doing there . |
| 13 | ‘ You know I do not , ’ Siban said , ‘ or you would not dare ask . |
| 14 | I did n't dare ask anything else about it . |
| 15 | He would not dare ask for money ; instead it would be up to the gentleman to raise the matter and to give payment when he deemed suitable . |
| 16 | Nor did she dare ask for privacy , because to do so would look as if she had something to hide — which in fact she did . |
| 17 | Do I dare ask ? ’ |
| 18 | A machine he 's designed , I do n't know for what purpose , I did n't dare ask , I was going to ask Vaughan . |
| 19 | They did ask him , however , and they came in hundreds for the purpose . |
| 20 | You did say you were n't going to dance , and she did ask me . |
| 21 | ‘ I did ask to sit next to you , ’ Erica remarked , as if reading my thoughts as I sat down , ‘ once I knew you 'd be here . ’ |
| 22 | If he did ask her she would become costive . |
| 23 | If she did ask it would encourage another bout of confidences and result in another round of their sparring . |
| 24 | Then I did ask myself if we would see this place again ; and when Jaffa started to disappear to our starboard , I remember I said to myself : ‘ If this ship could turn round now , I would return to Jaffa . ’ |
| 25 | But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked . |
| 26 | Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask . |
| 27 | When someone finally did ask , How are you two ? |
| 28 | Even so , he did ask , ‘ Would n't it be nice to have a Rolls Royce — have you noticed , nobody here has one ? ’ |
| 29 | Course I did ask once when I went to the family plannin for a smear . |
| 30 | ‘ We did ask him first , ’ Nell said . |