Example sentences of "asked [pn reflx] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the very least it might have asked itself how it intended to make money selling American shares to Americans at a time when Wall Street 's native giants were incapable of doing so . |
| 2 | Why — why — why ? she had asked herself over and over again , why did it end that way ? |
| 3 | The statement is one that many thousands of adults , mostly women , have asked themselves over and again . |
| 4 | Chair , can I suggest that some of the people who are actually involved in this are actually asked themselves rather than agencies that might be working with them , because I think that , that most of the , the sort of people we 're talking about are actually very sensitive . |
| 5 | The overseers of the poor in Frome must have asked themselves very much this same question ; at one time or another something between a quarter and a half of the population of Britain were to receive parish relief in the late 18th century — and the £l , 970 per annum it was costing for such relief in Frome in 1792 would rise to a staggering £11,723 per annum by 1831 . |
| 6 | Those still with troublesome suspicions should have asked themselves how Pakistan 's fast men could have survived the Cornhill Test series had they been doing something illegal to the ball while on view not only to alert umpires and batting opponents but to thousands of onlookers at the various grounds and before the probing eye of television . |
| 7 | I have always asked myself how much Argan actually loved art , and how much derived instead from the respect he certainly had for his own intelligence . |
| 8 | Lord knows it 's a question I 've asked myself often enough . |
| 9 | It was such a waste , so avoidable ; ever since he died you must have constantly asked yourself why . |