Example sentences of "asks [Wh adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Eli asks how the battle has gone . |
| 2 | FARMERS WEEKLY 's South-west correspondent John Burns asks how the changes in the law will affect farmers and their livestock . |
| 3 | One of them discreetly asks how the other 's business is doing . |
| 4 | ‘ She attends a boarding school and every night when I phone her she asks how the dog is and whether we have fed her . |
| 5 | The Airtours document asks why a £6.5 million contingent liability was not disclosed at the time Owners unveiled its preliminary results , and draws attention to its rival 's low distributable reserves as a possible reason . |
| 6 | It asks why the sun bothered to start the cycle of life at all if life was just going to end at the middle like the soldiers life . |
| 7 | If one asks why the law should draw the line at threats of breach of contract and not include within the tort of intimidation some threats against B even though the acts threatened are not strictly unlawful , the answer can lie only in the structure of the law . |
| 8 | Taylor ( 1987 ) points out that in the United States during the 1980s , the Reagan Administration , pursuing similar policies to those of the Conservatives , presided over a decline in crime and asks why the United Kingdom was different . |
| 9 | LUCRETIA STEWART asks why the killing fields strike so deep a chord |
| 10 | Randi asks when a statement becomes a scientific claim . |
| 11 | A neighbour asks when the baby is due . |
| 12 | Blimey , he said , if that bloke asks where the action is one more time I really do n't know what I 'll do . |