Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] ask a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder whether I may ask a question relating to your personal experience rather than I B M per se . |
| 2 | Set yourself a time limit if it helps : ‘ I must ask a question in the first five minutes . ’ |
| 3 | Erm , I must ask a question |
| 4 | I decided that I should ask a friend for a loan of his electronic pH meter to find out the exact difference between the two tanks . |
| 5 | Perhaps I should ask a lawyer ! ’ |
| 6 | Well I ca , I 'll ask a question then so that will have to be answered . |
| 7 | Dimples mischievously collide with each other at odd places around his face as he glances at me and wonders how on earth I could ask a question that is so dumb and yet so fundamental . |
| 8 | ‘ Sir , I would ask a favour , if it is possible . ’ |
| 9 | I will ask a family I know well , out in the country , if you can stay with them . ’ |
| 10 | Martin Heslop , prosecuting , said : ‘ I do not feel I can ask a jury to convict with the measure of certainty required . ’ |
| 11 | You may ask a repairer to start work on any reasonable repairs , after an accident . |
| 12 | To get the bast value for money in terms of advice and information , Professor Malcolm Hollis , spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ( RICS ) , says you should ask a surveyor to cover various points , with price guidance for each one . |
| 13 | Otherwise you 'll ask a question like , ‘ What did you do at school ? ’ and he 'll say , ‘ Well , I was planning the Great Train Robbery and I murdered my mother … . ’ |
| 14 | You 'll ask a question . |
| 15 | You could ask a couple of other kids out there . ’ |
| 16 | So it could you could ask a question like erm , What was the relationship like between David and his mother ? |
| 17 | Or you could ask a question like , What was the father ? |
| 18 | If there is something you can not do , you can ask a friend to help or pay someone to do it for you . |
| 19 | If you feel your baby 's been quiet during the day , you can ask a nurse to put you on the machine and it 'll reassure you the baby 's still there kicking away . |
| 20 | They seem to think that you can ask a businessman what his requirements are and get an answer that amounts to a draft system specification . |
| 21 | The spelling can be given , and you ( or a pupil ) can ask how it should be pronounced , e.g. @how would you say You can ask a pupil to give similar real words to support a particular pronunciation , e.g. sawk could be associated with law , saw , squawk , etc . |
| 22 | In order to decide whether something is sound or not , we can ask a number of questions . |
| 23 | Prize Day in December 1894 was novel in that Mrs. Sykes presented the prizes : the Clerk to the Governors had suggested " as ladies were now taking such a prominent place in everything , they should ask a lady to present the prizes " . |
| 24 | On Thursday they 'll ask a judge to postpone the possession order . |
| 25 | ‘ At about 6am they said I should eat something and if nothing had happened by 8am they 'd ask a doctor to break my waters . |
| 26 | Hence , instead of asking a voter whether or not s/he intends to vote Republican , they would ask a battery of questions bearing on many aspects of policy . |
| 27 | They would ask a lot of questions in the village . |
| 28 | Occasionally he 'll ask a question such as : Why did you need so many taxis in Hong Kong ? " |
| 29 | Perhaps if he , if he , if he could ask a thing like this then I 'm sure Salisbury Park would oblige . |