Example sentences of "and ask [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subjects were taken , singly , to a room containing a terminal to each system and asked to carry out their search first on one system , then on the other . |
| 2 | Sir Robin Ibbs was loaned from ICI and asked to sort out the civil service . |
| 3 | quite a few people have seen the conditions here and asked to go back to where they came from |
| 4 | then one day she rang and asked to come over — and we went to collect her and she 's been with us ever since . |
| 5 | At first he was asked to stand literally for a couple of seconds before being praised and asked to walk on . |
| 6 | On one occasion , when Miss Mayhew had gone off to have her hair done after my lesson , I took myself off to the newspaper offices and asked to look up their old records . |
| 7 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 8 | Just before the Christmas of 1963 , two unrelated boxing enthusiasts , both named Johnson , wandered into a Birmingham gymnasium and asked to work out . |
| 9 | Nathan was n't quite sure whether he should skulk away or knock and ask to come in . |