Example sentences of "to ask [pers pn] a question " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope she ai n't going to ask me a question — you know , like where summat is , like the ladies or summat , cos to tell the truth I do n't really know my way round here . |
| 2 | Who 'd like to ask me a question ? |
| 3 | ‘ My dad promised to ask you a question , but he forgot , and Mom could n't remember . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry to ask you a question Kempson . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to ask you a question . |
| 6 | And now I want to ask you a question . |
| 7 | ‘ I wish to ask you a question , and ask it on your allegiance to God , the King and this Order . ’ |
| 8 | Now , Emma , listen , I 'm going to ask you a question . |
| 9 | Corbett devoured it hungrily while the gaoler watched impassively but , when Corbett tried to ask him a question , slapped him in the mouth , grabbed the bowl and waddled out of the cell . |
| 10 | It was wrong to ask him a question . |
| 11 | I must have lived , oh , well over ninety-five years , but when I eventually meet God I want to ask him a question which has haunted me all my life . |
| 12 | To check his wandering thoughts he started to ask her to resume her labours elsewhere and finish the surgery when he had completed his own tasks in it — Only to find that she was hopping gently from foot to foot , and was bursting to ask him a question . |
| 13 | If we can put all this point-scoring to one side , I should like to ask him a question concerning several thousand of my constituents . |
| 14 | Sue , can I , I need to ask him a question . |
| 15 | There seemed to be a veritable army of helpers needed to open up the big downstairs rooms , and wherever she went there seemed yet another one poised to ask her a question she was unable to answer . |