Example sentences of "ask [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm celibate , do n't ask me !
2 ‘ And do n't ask me yet .
3 ‘ But they will not ask me . ’
4 ‘ YOU WO N'T ask me about abortion , will you ? ’ said Lord Joseph , apprehensively .
5 Do n't ask me if it was a good game — it would be like asking a surgeon if it was a good operation .
6 You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’
7 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 .
8 Do n't ask me I do n't give a damn , next stop is Vietnam .
9 Tommy 'd ask me how much money we 'd done that day .
10 ‘ Sometimes at the weekend Mr Rosenbloom would come and ask me to iron his shirts .
11 ‘ Do n't ask me .
12 ‘ Do n't ask me .
13 She do n't ask me if I want to go with her , but even if she did I would n't go .
14 I wish Peter would n't ask me difficult questions .
15 But she do n't ask me where nothing is , she just asks me if I can spare lOp .
16 You did say you were n't going to dance , and she did ask me .
17 Do n't ask me where he got it from .
18 Do n't ask me how it 's done , but that 's the correct answer .
19 They do n't worry like we seem to but do n't ask me why .
20 They do n't worry like we seem to but do n't ask me why .
21 I hope they do n't ask me to come and do a benefit concert up there .
22 Do n't ask me why .
23 Just do n't ask me no more questions , Dot .
24 Sometimes she would ask me to go blackberrying with her or , as she would say , to open a tin of tangerines with her .
25 ‘ Do n't ask me . ’
26 It is at times like this that I regret not doing a scientific 0-level and becoming a brain surgeon so that no one would ask me to wash up or scrub floors .
27 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 .
28 I hoped she would ask me to stay .
29 I said to Cohn , ‘ If you have the names , why ask me ? ’
30 Do not ask me how it can be , I have no idea .
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