Example sentences of "not ask [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was known to be ‘ worried about Marcus ’ , but Franca had not asked him exactly what the worry was . |
| 2 | He had bided his time , not asked her straight away , waited . |
| 3 | I started getting confused halfway through , but I was determined not to ask anyone else I did n't want another negative response to spoil the childlike happiness that the policeman 's courtesy had brought to my otherwise unrewarding day . |
| 4 | She had to find out whether her suspicions were true or not , and how else could she ever hope to do that if she did not ask him directly ? |
| 5 | She handed him the tube , being fairly and correctly sure he would not ask her outright to rub it in for him . |
| 6 | ‘ Rose went to bed , ’ Mona answered without looking up from her books and though the boy thought about it for a while he did not ask anything further . |
| 7 | If I am wrong , you may say nothing , and I vow I will not ask you again . ’ |
| 8 | Well I could not ask you before . |
| 9 | She did not ask herself then under what compulsion he had made his plots or constructed his worlds ; she accepted them as one accepts fairy tales in childhood . |
| 10 | And you would of sold us that too if we had n't asked them specifically what was in |
| 11 | He has n't asked me yet , not formally , he has n't done the man-to-man bit with my father , I 'm just expecting it to happen one day , maybe . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You have n't asked me yet . ’ |
| 13 | I have n't asked him yet . |
| 14 | I ai n't asked him yet ! |
| 15 | ‘ And do n't ask me yet . |
| 16 | ‘ But you did n't ask me here to comment on a perfectly straightforward signal . |
| 17 | You did n't ask me here to talk about your summer holidays . ’ |
| 18 | So in some states it 's sixteen , in some states it 's eighteen , in some states twenty one er and Reagan thought it would be quite a good idea if they had uniformity across America er in which , you know , that they would raise the drinking age to twenty one er and this would then er reduce the incidence of teenage drunk driving and if you 've ever been in an American bar you will know you 're very often funnily enough they do n't ask me so much these days but you 're very often asked to prove your age , you know , er and you have to produce your driver 's licence and all the rest of it erm and so he increasing |
| 19 | Do n't ask me now , ask me on a rainy day in London . ’ |
| 20 | I did n't see her until this afternoon , and I could n't ask her then , not just before her operation . |
| 21 | " I wo n't ask you again . " |
| 22 | No man likes to see his feelings laughed at , so Gabriel Oak said , turning away , ‘ Very well , then I wo n't ask you again . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps I ought to say first that I did n't ask you here to criticize my daughter-in-law for infidelity . |
| 24 | What goes on here ? ’ 'I did n't ask you here and I do n't want to see you and I have nothing to say to you , ’ I said , showing her the door but , alas , she seemed to have no intention of going through it , so I capitulated rather too easily and offered her a drink from the mini bar . |