Example sentences of "[be] ask [Wh det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're asking what the noise could be who it could be were the guards coming for them ? |
| 2 | Specialists in linguistics sometimes claim that if non-specialists are asked what the function of language is , they will reply that it is ‘ to send |
| 3 | Specialists in linguistics sometimes claim that if non-specialists are asked what the function of language is , they will reply that it is ‘ to send information ’ or ‘ to tell other people your thoughts ’ . |
| 4 | He made the reference after being asked what the Conservatives would do about law and order during a question and answer session at Hummersknott School , Darlington . |
| 5 | He made the reference after being asked what the Conservatives would do about law and order during a question and answer session at Hummersknott School , Darlington . |
| 6 | When they were asked what the ( say ) ‘ egg ’ was ‘ really , really ’ the three-year-olds answered correctly that it was a stone , but when asked what the object ‘ looks like to your eyes ’ they also said ‘ stone ’ . |
| 7 | Blake is asked what a sand filter would cost . |
| 8 | The present American tendency is to ask what a country can now do for itself and for the United States , not what it might do in other circumstances , nor yet what it deserves . |
| 9 | The simplest dynamical question that can be posed for curved space–time is to ask what the motion of a test body is in free fall , i.e. under gravitational forces alone . |
| 10 | I remember when he was asked what the principal crop of Thailand was and he answered transistor radios . |
| 11 | Truman once said he was asked what the job of the presidency involved and Truman once said I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them . |