Example sentences of "only ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept waving to Mike but he took no notice , and if I hang about here Otley will only ask me to fetch him a slice of ox and then I shall be sick . |
| 2 | There are of course parliamentary questions , although individual members of the Bundestag may only ask Kleine Anfrage ( small questions ) : a quorum of 26 is need to ask a Grosse Anfrage ( major question ) and these require a fuller reply . |
| 3 | remember : you can only ask for water if you establish and maintain an overlap before you are two board lengths from the mark . |
| 4 | If we wish to know what we think of ourselves , we need only ask what we think of others . |
| 5 | We can only ask ourselves more questions , and the answers we supply will reflect our own psychology . |
| 6 | I can only ask why , ’ said survivor Michael Tassel . |
| 7 | Most employers will only ask you to repeat this information in a standard application form anyway . |
| 8 | In some , e.g. , the United Kingdom and France , judges are permitted to attend ( pursuant either to a declaration under the Convention or other procedures ) but it has been rare for them to do so and they could normally only ask questions with the leave of the court . |
| 9 | According to Letourneau , the Vietnamese looked on concessions as weakness and would only ask for more . |
| 10 | If he fails to do this , we can only ask him to take another and perhaps a more careful look at our experiment , and think again . |
| 11 | I had visited his tomb in Westminster Abbey before starting on this trip , and read the words there , from the last entry in his diary : ‘ Here in my solitude , I can only ask God 's blessing on the men — whether British , American or Turk — who will help to heal this open sore of the world . ’ |
| 12 | And you can it 's alright , it 'll only ask and say I do n't like it , put the proper one in , silly idiot . |
| 13 | Powerful software should only ask for information it needs . |
| 14 | There might be occasions when we feel that we 'd like MPs to take a particular line , in fact there are occasions when I 'd like to see MPs take a particular line , but we can only ask them , we can not in fact insist that they do take a particular line . |
| 15 | One can only ask , ’ But what about the local community , which does not want it ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I think someone must have taken it and I can only ask them to bring it back to me , ’ said Mrs King , of Egglestone Way . |