Example sentences of "ask [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Armed Forces Prosecutor Gen. Carlos Domínguez on Dec. 18 asked the Armed Forces Supreme Council to approve death sentences on Seineldin and four other leaders of the coup attempt . |
| 2 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 3 | Next day a newspaper reporter asked the young men if they thought it would have been fair for the crowd to kill them . |
| 4 | He asked the young men from the agents who showed him round if the pipes were lagged and whether the soil was chalk or clay ; he could n't think of any other questions . |
| 5 | When she asked the 56 children in the study who they would go to if worried about something , they chose their mother ; not one said they would go to their father . |
| 6 | This was the first problem addressed in the following survey , which also asked the following questions : why do companies use headhunters instead of their own in-house recruiting facilities and personnel function ? |
| 7 | Professor White 's earlier research was directed to flood plains and following the Flood Control Act of 1936 the research group asked the following questions ( White , 1973 , p. 197 ) : |
| 8 | We asked the prime ministers office for a comment — and were passed on to the treasury , which told us that the conditions for economic recovery are very much in place , but people in Cheltenham we spoke to were having none of it . |
| 9 | We asked the prime ministers office for a comment — and were passed on to the treasury , which told us that the conditions for economic recovery are very much in place , but people in Cheltenham we spoke to were having none of it . |
| 10 | By the time you have dictated the brief and asked the relevant questions you will have started to form some idea of the answers . |
| 11 | ‘ Is that enough ? ’ he asked the front ranks of the crowd . |
| 12 | He came down looking rather puzzled , and asked the two ladies to see the boy with him . |
| 13 | She asked the two men all about driving a steam train , and they showed her the automatic brake , and the little clock faces that told them how much steam the engine was making . |
| 14 | Tony Phillips asked the two men to leave 15 times but they only went minutes before police arrived . |
| 15 | The judge asked the two parties to do everything possible to reach a reconciliation of the issue . |
| 16 | I put that as an amendment , not reiterating the entire Labour budget , but I asked the Liberal Democrats , who purport to want to erm provide that sort of service to vulnerable people could they not accept that extra half a million pounds as an amendment , and two out of the group abstained , the rest of them voted against that as an amendment . |
| 17 | He had an assertive , competitive manner and asked the right questions . |
| 18 | The uniformed guard , who wishes to be known only as John , approached the car and asked the three youths inside to leave . |
| 19 | Mr Yeltsin , meanwhile , asked the 1,033 members of the Congress of People 's Deputies not to go ahead with its vote . |
| 20 | Mr Yeltsin , meanwhile , asked the 1,033 members of the Congress of People 's Deputies not to go ahead with a planned impeachment vote . |
| 21 | " When Adam delved , and Eve span , /Who was then the gentleman ? " asked the English protesters of 1381 . |
| 22 | Fat Marlene with the wobbling chin , laughing Clyde who could smack you across the mouth without once losing his smile , and slow , amiable Harry who always asked the wrong questions at the wrong time and had by far the biggest prick of the many hundreds or thousands she had sucked and handled . |
| 23 | mm , I think maybe at the start though when I said do you have a beautiful body , maybe I asked the wrong questions , let me ask you this question at the end , do you like your body ? , er button one for yes and button two for no , and maybe we 'll get a different answer then , eighty five people said no they did n't have a beautiful body , but fifty six people here say yes they like their body , forty four is too many people who do n't , why not ? , who said no ? , why , why do n't you ? , yes |
| 24 | The chemist P. Keune who teaches Science of Materials at two Dutch art academies asked the American manufacturers of the paint used by Daniel Goldreyer in the recent restoration of the painting for details concerning its chemical composition . |
| 25 | He returned to Downing Street and asked the waiting journalists for their prayers rather than their congratulations . |
| 26 | ‘ How 's she getting on without a farm manager ? ’ the old maltster asked the younger men . |
| 27 | Cecil asked the busy shoppers along High Row . |
| 28 | In the first car he was stopped ten or more times for no reason at all and always asked the same questions : is this your car … are you sure that it 's your car … are you sure it is n't a stolen car , and then asked to produce his driving documents . |
| 29 | ‘ He asked the senior players if they 'd seen anything as they came away from the dressing-room and they said they had n't . |
| 30 | It seems a couple of them came out here a time or two , asked a few questions , shrugged their shoulders and took themselves off . ’ |