Example sentences of "ask [pron] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then someone asked me where the station was , and she was deaf , and I had to trumpet like an elephant for about ten minutes … . |
| 2 | ‘ In one game in Barcelona , the players asked me why the crowd was whistling . |
| 3 | He was asking them how the hunt had begun , and what had happened before we joined it . |
| 4 | If they come up with a question maybe just find out what 's being it erm not just reaction to a particular behaviour , but asking them how the feeling , you know maybe pointing to the bit in their body that 's actually feeling butterflies or whatever and trying to help them to express the fears and , more importantly , to make them concrete in terms of play , drawing , or acting it out . |
| 5 | If you are asking me where the remedy lies , my answer is that I have told you before and I shall go on telling you , and you know perfectly well what it is , though everybody thinks that it is too difficult and that therefore there must be a different remedy . |
| 6 | It is to an examination of this perspective that we now turn , but it is worthwhile to start by asking ourselves why the situation is regarded as a problem rather than a potential ? |
| 7 | During my interview with the doctor a woman kept coming in and asking him where the party was . |
| 8 | I kept asking myself how the photographers had arrived there at this particular track . |
| 9 | She dashed out to Doreen and asked her where the doll was . |
| 10 | And when they asked her why the yellow ribbon , |
| 11 | Fox F M reporter , Tiffany Foster asked her how the curiosity exhibition works . |
| 12 | ‘ I asked him why the floorboards did n't float . ’ |
| 13 | I asked him why the kid did n't use his own name , and he said maybe he thought Ben MacLean sorta sounded better . |
| 14 | I asked him why the hell he wanted me to stay the night when he was going out later , and he just shrugged his shoulders and said he was in a funny mood and did n't know what he was saying . ’ |
| 15 | When I arrived and called Bob Keller , an ABC News producer who had lived in Beirut and was now covering LA , I asked him where the Green Line was . |
| 16 | I ran across to him and asked him where the hell Nicola was . |
| 17 | I asked him how the scene from the mystery had fared that morning , as Nell had described what had happened the day before . |
| 18 | During this rest period I interviewed Chris by telephone and asked him how the wedding of the year had gone . |
| 19 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 20 | Interesting to speculate and I 'll do this a little later on , ask them why the labour party 's so obsessed with opposing education . |
| 21 | so I went over and ask them where the New Town was , and they told us where , walk up the road till you come to the lights , turn right , follow the lane and you 'll come to the New Town erm |
| 22 | ‘ If you 'd asked me nearer the time … ’ |
| 23 | The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities has asked me how the discount system , as distinct from the rebate system , will work . |
| 24 | Then he asks them why the Irish were allowed to starve then and Africans now . |
| 25 | ‘ Do you mind , ’ said Endill , chancing his luck , ‘ If I ask you why the school is an island ? |
| 26 | One Lapp shows me his reindeer skin boots , and shrugs when I ask him why the toes curl up . |
| 27 | ‘ Ask him where the wine came from , ’ I demanded . |
| 28 | ‘ Ask him where the abbe is buried , ’ I said , an idea half-forming in my mind . |
| 29 | He asks him why the pilots are n't coming . |
| 30 | So I 'm not saying th th that there are n't these th the important other inputs , but , but what I am saying is that if you ask yourself where the kind of gene behaviour interface really exists is clearly in the human er in , in the human mind and it may be that the basic kind of parameters erm have , have been set for our emotions and I really do n't see how we can change those . |