Example sentences of "ask [pn reflx] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us ask ourselves why this should be so . |
| 2 | We are the artists , and if our life is a dark , jagged abstract when we prefer Impressionist pastels which dance with light , we should ask ourselves why we painted it that way . |
| 3 | Perhaps we had best ask ourselves why our political institutions function as they do . |
| 4 | But we should ask ourselves why are we using that and what 's the effect of using other functions in there such as maybe an and or an or where we or the responses out of here or we an them . |
| 5 | Before we leave this topic , with some doubtless well-received witticisms about the American ateliers that are called Schools of Creative Writing , let us ask ourselves how an artistic tradition is transmitted from generation to generation in England , if it is not transmitted in the way that Pound took for granted . |
| 6 | Let us rather ask ourselves how we would score bar 5 if it stood alone apart from its context , and adapt the first four bars to this arrangement so as to lead naturally into it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman should ask himself why he is so keen to see people who are entitled to vote not able to do so . |
| 9 | However , he should ask himself why it is that , when people are given access and are judged eligible for the benefits , the administration is so inadequate that paying out the genuine benefits breaks the system . |
| 10 | Soviet General Staff must ask himself how much of that GNP has any practical use . |
| 11 | This suggests that the child does n't ask himself how the letters he has written down might be pronounced . |
| 12 | You might ask yourselves why I bother writing this , but I get kind of worried when I hear such news . |
| 13 | Before preparing any hand-out , however , teachers must ask themselves why they are giving it and how they are to use it . |
| 14 | Likely what hundreds of others had to do : wonder , and think , and stick their fingers in their ears ; some , on the other hand , might even ask themselves how long it would be before they could try it . |
| 15 | In this period of evangelism Christian communicators must ask themselves how the media can most appropriately present the Good News of the Gospel . |
| 16 | Those aware that in May 1989 Sotheby 's New York sold for $67 million a small group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings inherited and collected by Ortiz-Patiño and once displayed in his house in Switzerland ( notable among the eight paintings offered at the time was Gauguin 's ‘ Mata Mua ’ , a Tahitian composition that sold for over $24 million to its former co-owner , Baron Thyssen , having been jointly purchased by Ortiz-Patiño and Thyssen only five years before at Sotheby 's New York for $3.85 million ) , may ask themselves how will Jaime Ortiz-Patiño furnish and decorate his London flat ? |
| 17 | I 'm not dismissing your desire for a baby but you should ask yourself why there 's such a gap in your life . |
| 18 | ‘ I think you should ask yourself why you wrote it , Lizzy , and why you did those things ? |
| 19 | I did n't wonder why she 'd taken to using a typewriter when her last messages to me were handwritten , and I did n't ask myself how Edouard could have talked to me all that time without mentioning there was an envelope for me . ’ |