Example sentences of "[noun] have asked a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A couple who were kidnapped and pushed off a cliff in a burning car have asked a court to give them the pick-up truck in which they were abducted .
2 American Fine Arts Co. has asked a bunch among them Dan Graham , Louise Lawler , Stephen Prina , Andrea Frazier and James Welling ; John Good , a group which includes Byron Kim , Jessica Stockholder , Fabian Marcaccio , James Hyde , Paula Hayes , Adrian Schiess and Wolfgang Staehle ( both shows through August ) ; and Robert Miller five painters Martha Diamond , Mary Heilmann , Bernard Pifaretti , Louise Fishman and Harriet Korman .
3 Sometimes she came back to the present with a bang to find that one of the girls had asked a question and had received no answer at all because Jenna 's gaze was fixed on the sky outside the window , her mind travelling the road to Paris and Alain .
4 The police had asked a judge on Sept. 2 to authorize the arrest of Farias and of Collor 's former private secretary Claudio Vieira , alleging that they were obstructing the investigation into government corruption .
5 The debate was an old one : ‘ does gentilesse proceed from birth ’ , John Gower had asked a generation earlier in his Confessio amantis .
6 It was as if the bird had asked a question in whatever language it spoke .
7 A DIVORCED couple have asked a judge to settle a row over their dead son 's ashes .
8 Mr. Bridges has asked a couple of pertinent scientific questions — but let's hear more from him before , perhaps , returning to the audience here in the studio for some more of their opinion . ’
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