Example sentences of "ask them [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 2 | Just move onto the next one then media trainer I started talking to the training school about doing some training for officers it started with C I D cos you often find that a D S is an acting D I and when we asked them to do an interview about a crime or incident they say we 've not done radio interviews before , so Phil has er supported it and we 're gon na run some sort of training scheme one day courses for them . |
| 3 | In Levison v Patent Steam Carpet Cleaning Co Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 69 the plaintiff telephoned the defendants and asked them to collect a carpet for cleaning . |
| 4 | We also asked them to name the party they thought best on economic matters for themselves and their families , for Britain as a whole , and for the unemployed . |
| 5 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
| 6 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 7 | She called the switchboard and asked them to page the physio on call , and was told she was in ITU with a patient and likely to be tied up for at least half an hour . |
| 8 | This no doubt explains one of Hudson 's tests on the schoolboys , which asked them to write a description of a scientist 's wife , and a novelist 's wife , not a novelist 's husband . |
| 9 | She asked them to donate a collection of drawings , watercolours and sketches as well as etchings , lino prints and engravings on metal . |
| 10 | ‘ The holidaymakers were having a party and one of the prisoners went and asked them to keep the noise down . |
| 11 | He therefore consulted the defendant sellers of agricultural products and asked them to recommend a herbicide that could be used later than usual . |
| 12 | For example , when Bernstein showed working-class children a sequence of pictures and asked them to tell the story contained there , they began so to speak from inside it : ‘ he kicks the ball through the window then the woman chases them ’ etc. ( 1971 ) . |
| 13 | While Jack and Kathleen dealt with the patient , Amy rang the switchboard and asked them to pass the message on to Dr Marumba . |
| 14 | I had a huge living room that needed repainting and so I invited a few friends along , asked them to bring a paint-brush each and I supplied the food and drink . |
| 15 | At the start we asked them to approach the Union of Post Office Workers ( UPW ) to cut off the mail to Grunwick but they would n't do that either . |
| 16 | The chosen redesigners were Information Design unit of Newport Pagnell , UK ; and we asked them to make The Lancet easier to read by attention to the typography , layout , and production techniques . |
| 17 | This was done by asking them to report the position of a dot moving round an oscilloscope screen at the moment of the experience . |
| 18 | She moved to the phone on the wall and called the switchboard , asking them to page the physician , and then turned back to their patient . |
| 19 | One of the aims of 1992 National Breastfeeding Week ( May 18–24 ) is to make schoolkids aware of the natural method of feeding babies by asking them to design a poster . |
| 20 | Developers told Computer Reseller News that the company has several fixes in the works , including asking them to install a fan on a small board to blow directly on the chip . |
| 21 | Both sides were now preparing for war , but Norfolk and Rent made another attempt at mediation in mid-December when they wrote to all the prelates asking them to attend an assembly in London to discuss the king 's failure to abide by his coronation oath and Magna Carta . |
| 22 | Members are urged to write a polite reply to the National Commission for Human Rights asking them to take every step necessary to bring the perpetrators of Jose Ramon 's ‘ disappearance ’ to justice . |
| 23 | ‘ If the League agree to our request we are also asking them to lift the transfer ban on incoming players the consortium will make £250,000 immediately available to the club . |
| 24 | It can not afford , however , to upset its bankers — not least by asking them to finance a settlement with the sub-contractors . |
| 25 | The vet was very kind but had to explain that Lizzie had severe heart failure , repeating himself several times before Marjorie and Bill could comprehend the situation ; he was asking them to make a decision — a decision to end Lizzie 's life . |
| 26 | An immediate appeal to the BBC 's board of governors asking them to ban the programme is also to be made . |
| 27 | The farmer and his neighbours were all friends so it was just a case of asking them to keep an eye on their moggies , and spying on a few of the plumper-looking ones — successful hunters , we assumed . |
| 28 | I wrote to the editors of all the major newspapers and television channels asking them to cover the anniversary . |
| 29 | A ‘ strong ’ letter will also be sent to the WBO asking them to consider a re-match with Jimenez because of the close nature of a verdict in which German judge Norbert Krosch scored the fight even at 115 points each . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was this that prompted Mr Milosevic to dispatch an emissary to the Bosnian Serbs , asking them to sign the plan . |