Example sentences of "[verb] question [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And here he asks the victims and the adulterers searching questions in a voice that ca n't fail to get results . |
| 2 | Addressing questions to a class of primary school children in a rural school at the time of the Passover , I asked them about places in the Bible where there were sheep . |
| 3 | Discuss with pupils various techniques of recording information during a visit : making notes ; making sketches ; making a plan ; noting down measurements , etc. ; taking photographs ; using a video camera ; speaking into a cassette recorder ; recording various sounds on the site ; brass rubbings or stone rubbings ; artwork of various kinds ; collecting vocabulary to describe the place ; completing questions on a worksheet ; taking compass bearings . |
| 4 | As he fielded questions at a press conference in his Yeovil constituency about his terms for a coalition in the event of a hung Parliament or whether Downing Street had been given his telephone number , the instrument that could receive the crucial call was being hunted down by aides . |
| 5 | Macmillan was quickly struck by the new president 's habit of asking questions as a tool with which to develop policy . |
| 6 | He hardly waited for their introductions but ushered them into the warm , sweet-smelling room , chattering and asking questions like a magpie . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) Whereas it has been axiomatic throughout the working lifetimes of many now engaged in the administration of criminal justice that a police officer should never , save in exceptional circumstances , even address questions to a suspect after he has been charged , the Serious Fraud Office , which is by statute required to have regard to Code C , is asserting a contradictory power not only to ask questions at such a time , but also to penalise the applicant for any failure to reply . |
| 8 | 2 The learner can not ask questions of the machine , but he can ask questions of a teacher . |