Example sentences of "ask his " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't ask his name she preferred to guess . |
| 2 | A doctor does n't ask his patient what treatment to prescribe . |
| 3 | She would ask his assistance . |
| 4 | They may , for instance , assign the proceeds of a Credit to the bank to gain an increase in overdraft facilities or an exporter will ask his bank to issue a Credit to his supplier — an arrangement known as a ‘ Back-to-Back ’ Credit . |
| 5 | While studying Tzintzuntzan , the anthropologist George Foster found that the female villagers would ask his wife to approach him for a favour ( Foster 1967 ) . |
| 6 | In tennis he will ask his students to call out their estimate of the height of the ball above the net as it crosses from side to side , or he will ask them to shout ‘ Bounce ’ each time the ball bounces and ‘ Hit ’ each time it is hit , giving Self 2 a chance to show what a fluent player he really is . |
| 7 | He had often wondered , in later years , how he had performed — the amputation awful high , almost at the hip ; but , of course , he could hardly ask his mother . |
| 8 | He did ask his sister for money . |
| 9 | The haulier , for example , implicitly undertakes in the employment contract that he will not ask his drivers , or indeed any of his employees , to do an unlawful act . |
| 10 | In retrospect , Ken is a little unhappy that he did n't ask his belayer to place the pegs so it could have been an on-sight flash . |
| 11 | ‘ I did not ask his name before I shot him , no . ’ |
| 12 | He was so eager for Camilla 's company that he did not even ask his hostess , Lady Vestey to take the floor . |
| 13 | Then he might ask his dealer 's advice . |
| 14 | I was sitting in a row exactly in front of Harold Wilson and his party , and during the last interval I heard him ask his neighbour whether anyone would ‘ have seen these plays right through ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Should I ask his leave also ? ’ |
| 17 | What did Doctor Jekyll ask his friend Lanyon to do for him ? |
| 18 | He began to realize , too , what hardship she had suffered rather than ask his family for money . |
| 19 | ‘ May I ask his name ? ’ |
| 20 | The day after his father 's funeral , his grandmother , Mrs Yaxlee , told him to go and ask his lordship for a job . |
| 21 | He thought he would ask his mother . |
| 22 | Will he ask his right hon. Friends the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for the Environment to bring that home to the support services and the district decision-takers in South Yorkshire and to urge on them the prior claim of South Yorkshire police at this time ? |
| 23 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman will ask his constituents to remember that if they want to do something about that matter there is one answer — to buy the best food that there is , and that is British produced . |
| 24 | Let the hon. Gentleman ask his question — but briefly please . |
| 25 | He may ask his Member of Parliament to take up his case . |
| 26 | When Churchill gave his first broadcast , suggesting that the Labour Party might have to resort to ‘ some form of Gestapo , no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance ’ , the electors were bound to regard it as a gross exaggeration ; Attlee , following the next night , could readily ask his audience to distinguish between ‘ Winston Churchill , the great leader in war of a united nation , and Mr Churchill the party leader of the Conservatives ’ . |
| 27 | He proposed to draw up what could be learned of the history of this area , and hoped that the Earl of Northumbria would ask his old men to do the same , when a meeting might be called to their mutual benefit . |
| 28 | The next step that he foresaw would be that Mr Ramsay MacDonald comes to the King and asks for a Dissolution : indeed Mr Asquith believes that in accepting office Mr Ramsay MacDonald will very probably ask His Majesty to promise a Dissolution in the event of an early defeat of the Government in the House of Commons … |
| 29 | We did ask his surname and he said it was too difficult , and we had to stick to Nassim . |
| 30 | ‘ Quite frankly , I would n't even ask his advice on how to build a hamster cage . |