Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [modal v] [adv] ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 'll be Confirmed in Faith I 'll never ask you to come to the church again . |
| 2 | And it 's sweet to others as well who want to receive it , but it 's also bitter to those who do n't , but what a wonderful provision that is from Jehovah , so are we conscious of our spiritual needs , no question we could just ask in passing , you notice the kingdom ministry is changed ? |
| 3 | So if you are in a hurry to cash your cheque you can always ask : ‘ Is that a Paul Costelloe number you are wearing ? ’ |
| 4 | Is all of this over-kill you may well ask ? |
| 5 | Mr Josselin told a cabinet meeting he would also ask for price controls to be imposed on more types of fish , and for Russian cod imports to be suspended altogether . |
| 6 | For never have the ever more numerous museums been so crowded , exhibitions so well attended , art books so glossy , the so-called specialist periodicals so erudite , and historic buildings so well ‘ protected ’ against decay and destruction of all kinds ( although in many cases one might well ask whether there is not some confusion and contradiction between protection and son ) . |
| 7 | Although Laura would phone Jacqui every day she would usually ask for another dress ‘ along the same lines ’ . |
| 8 | Dame Sybil was the most gracious , helpful , generous woman you can ever ask to work with , you know , you 'd expect me to say that anyway , I 'm not gon na say anything else er but in her case it really was true . |
| 9 | When we look at these disasters we must again ask ourselves how it was that Harris and Eaker could sustain those losses and go time and again . |
| 10 | No , of course he could n't ask just anyone , Ianthe thought , as she walked towards the bus stop , but she was glad that he had felt able to ask her . |
| 11 | You know another thing I can really ask technical questions . |
| 12 | In reading line A we may well ask , What , precisely , are the heavens like that God stretches out ? |
| 13 | hand over some questions at the end of each section I will then ask each spokesman to present their budget . |
| 14 | After a period of time we will then ask local groups to provide this information . |
| 15 | In this context we may well ask whether we are not living in an age when God is judging our Western civilisation — whether the inflation of the Western world is a judgment on materialism , or the rising unemployment a judgment on militant trade unionism or the crisis of capitalism a judgment on the secular humanism of our age . |
| 16 | ‘ If Rocastle feels he has no future at Leeds he can obviously ask for a transfer ’ |