Example sentences of "ask the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , Fiona asked the specialist for help . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend the Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) yesterday asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Environment , the hon. Member for Salisbury ( Mr. Key ) , whether he would consider the abolition of the minimum 20 per cent . |
| 3 | Joan de Warenne ? ’ asked the prince in surprise . |
| 4 | TWO national newspapers , the Independent and the Sunday Times , yesterday asked the Court of Appeal to quash their convictions last May for contempt of court in publishing extracts from the Spycatcher book while a ban was in force against two other papers . |
| 5 | Old FF writes : I asked the Editor for advice on what to feed Scatophagus and he suggested my last two articles … |
| 6 | For the Government the scale , not of the commitment but of the arrears , was unacceptably large , and in 1990 Michael Spicer , Housing Minister , asked the Council of Mortgage Lenders ‘ to develop a code of practice for dealing with people borrowing money and getting into trouble . ’ |
| 7 | The concept of indirect discrimination was , according to the councils , at first unfamiliar to police , who also saw no reason why black candidates might be put off by the former question three — which asked the country of origin of spouse or lover 's parents . |
| 8 | For comparison , he asked the Head of Department to comment on it in terms of variety and amount . |
| 9 | I asked the nurse on duty about the day he died . |
| 10 | The LEA 's decision to allow the child 's admission to the school was challenged by the Commission for Racial Equality , which asked the Secretary of State to use his default powers in the 1944 Act and quash the LEA 's decision , on the ground that the decision was racist and would encourage other parents to pursue the same course as Mrs C and for the same reason . |
| 11 | She asked the Secretary of State to hold an inquiry at which parties could be heard and witnesses examined . |
| 12 | Our President , Lord Williams , asked the Secretary of State for Wales to prevent the discharge of contaminated rock and muds during Hamilton 's recent drilling operations . |
| 13 | About 12 months ago , I asked the Secretary of State a question about the safety of the lighting on the M6 . |
| 14 | During his opening speech , I asked the Secretary of State a question to which he did not give a full or satisfactory answer — why had not the Government sought to introduce those measures before they privatised monopolies , rather than wait until the customers had suffered the consequences of several years of high prices and not necessarily improved services ? |
| 15 | Er Brian has already confirmed that er he will support the Conservative resolution which in effect recognises that some of the changes in government regulation over the past er decade has not always turned out for the best er this County in particular order er other asked the Secretary of State to re to relieve some of the pressures that generates in that area and it 's for that reason er |
| 16 | I was therefore interested to read the reply of the then NIO Security Minister , Michael Mates , to a Parliamentary written question by Ulster Unionist Home Affairs spokesman , David Trimble in Hansard earlier this year , when Mr Trimble asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he intends to end slopping-out at each of the province 's prisons . |
| 17 | I asked the girl at Reception . |
| 18 | The assault was over in seconds and Mr Norrie ran in to a local church where he asked the warden for help . |
| 19 | On one occasion , loyalist strike pickets asked the pilot on touchdown for his UWC essential service pass . |
| 20 | The Greeks could not forgive this outrage and when , during the fifteenth century , they repeatedly asked the West for help against the Ottoman Turks , the Latins were decidedly lukewarm in their response . |
| 21 | What does he do ? ’ asked the lady on reception . |
| 22 | He went round to the stage door afterwards and asked the man on duty to send up his name . |
| 23 | I asked the man on duty to ring the Avila police headquarters , where the search was supposedly being co-ordinated , but he protested that his Spanish was poor . |
| 24 | ‘ Exactly , ’ asked the man in blue , ‘ who are you ? ’ |
| 25 | Rachel asked the switchboard to page Dr Markham in his meeting , then she sent for Greg and the factory ambulance . |
| 26 | The Department of the Environment ( DoE ) had foreseen difficulties with the Directive , and now asked the Department of Health for advice on nitrate levels , most probably so that the UK could argue for laxer standards . |
| 27 | She asked the traveller in jelly if he would care to join them , whereupon his Adam 's apple fluttered , and he repeated the all-purpose word ‘ lymmener ’ , which , on this occasion , they took to mean ‘ no ’ . |
| 28 | The Attorney General would spend hours poring over the evidence before asking the Court of Appeal to look at the Courtney case . |
| 29 | Here , Freud in terms of paradox , because on the one hand , he started out asking the problem of order . |
| 30 | Erm I think we 're asking the panel on doctrine to do something that is not really within their remit at the moment . |