Example sentences of "ask [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So ask me a question . |
| 2 | Ask me a question and engage me in conversation or make a statement that applies to me . |
| 3 | Dad ask me a joke . |
| 4 | ‘ Let that be your answer , and ask me no more . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Ask me no more , Rose , I pray you ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Ask me the question ! |
| 7 | ‘ But ask me the same question tomorrow and I could give a whole litany of things . |
| 8 | ‘ Ask me tomorrow — ask me the day after — ask me anytime , ’ said the seal . |
| 9 | At er well this week you sort of look back and say yeah but erm in about ten years time if you come and ask me the same question I would be able be in a better position to give you an answer . |
| 10 | Does your wife do that or does somebody else do that , why not just ask me the question who does the gardening |
| 11 | Ask me the time I was up at ? |
| 12 | I wanted to follow them home , ask them a million questions . |
| 13 | Then they continue , they hand you the tape , you ask them a few questions , like what the band 's called , how long you 've been working together , and bla bla bla , and then erm , I think I I 'm actually doing it with Kent and James and they 're not thick . |
| 14 | Ask them the time and they will invariably say something like , ‘ … it 's 4.41 ’ . |
| 15 | we 'll phone Chris and Keith and ask them the best time for us to go when the kids are not there , and she 'll tell us |
| 16 | three questions later they ask them the very question they just answered |
| 17 | Men are also able to gain the lion 's share of the floor in cross-sex talk because women provide them with ‘ hearer support ’ in the form of minimal responses ( like mhm , yes ) and questions — when you ask someone a question you cede the floor to them . |
| 18 | How we re serve our members , communicate with our members and ask ourselves the question , do we give them what they want ? |
| 19 | Again , you 'll see a good example of that , where closed questions are good in a situation if you want to get a direct answer to somebody who tends to waffle , but again , if you 're asked closed questions and you want to give information , it is harder , it 's easier if you ask somebody an open question and on the film , John Cleese comes up with the starters to an open question , which are the Who , What , Which , Why , Where , When questions . |
| 20 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 21 | If we ask who the ‘ many people ’ were who had been saved from famine through Joseph 's foresight and planning , they were not merely Joseph , his father and brothers and their families , but all the people of Egypt . |
| 22 | He treats his actors as equals , and if he ask you a question , it 's because he wants an answer — not because he 's testing you . ’ |
| 23 | Ask you a few things . |
| 24 | One chair at the bottom of the table was empty , and as I came in Dr Barton , with hardly more than a nod in my direction , indicated the chair and said sternly , ‘ You may sit , Doctor Masters , while we ask you a few questions . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Will you be offended if I ask you a question ? ’ |
| 26 | Believe it or not many people , not many people do actually read them , but school teachers and engineers , the ana , the analytical minds , they read the damn things , and when they come back they ask you a question , and you say , I do n't know , I 've never read it . |
| 27 | S ask you a question . |
| 28 | I wonder if I could just take a step back in conclusion and ask you a couple of rather broader questions , more general questions . |
| 29 | Jim , I 'd love to keep going here and ask you a whole lot more questions . |
| 30 | And then you they ask you a number of questions , often pretty stupid questions , they go away and write a bit which contains some errors , or they broadcast a bit which does n't seem quite right , and then you feel cross and you say ‘ I 'm never going to speak to that lot again . ’ |