Example sentences of "ask [Wh adv] do [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 20 years ago PEOPLE in Darlington could choose between learning the Language of Love on screen on the ABC or asking When Did You Last See My Mother ? ( ‘ a stimulating and imaginative modern play ’ ) at the Civic . |
| 2 | Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made . |
| 3 | Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job . |
| 4 | If you are asked why do you want to become an MP , say this : ‘ A mixture of ambition and service ; ambition is , of course , the engine of the public good . |
| 5 | So , it 's quite clear that the electric car is a technical technically feasible form of car , however if you ask why do you want an electric car there would could be different reasons . |
| 6 | So , erm , highlight what you want to copy , which is that , and then ask where do you want to copy to . |
| 7 | That was er a flat in Plumtree , we were offered a flat on the first floor and when we examined the kitchen it was extremely obvious to me that our gas cooker would n't fit in the , the place where it was designed to fit , when I asked where do we put the washing machine I was informed that most tenants kept the washing machine on the balcony , when I said well where do we put the refrigerator , well most people keep the refrigerator either in the hall or , or rather not a hall it was a passageway , in the passageway or in the living room , now it does seem to me with hindsight that if that 's planning I , to use an old fashion London phrase , I 'm a Dutchman . |
| 8 | She was about to ask How do you know ? and then remembered his tours in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | I do n't know whether it was relevant or not but I would , I 'd ask how did you manage to finance these policies , if you 're taking one out every two or three years , you know , obviously increment in salary or something of that nature might be relevant so something that the person was conscious of , they were using their money to buy er s er savings plans . |
| 10 | He could ask why do I need it . |