Example sentences of "ask [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that was true , would I approve an auction of my personal belongings , jewellery , dishes , everything and just stand aside helpless ? ’ she asked during the joint Fox and Sky News interview in New York . |
| 2 | Anyhow it was like the sea and boats and everything else and I used to I was working in a shop and I use to get up early in the morning and go down and tally all the numbers and names of the boats and and there was an old man came in to shop while I was working in and asked about a certain boat , I says oh I can tell you , trek down . |
| 3 | The hon. Lady also asked about a public inquiry . |
| 4 | In June 's Tropical Answers D Benton asked about an antisyphoning device for his external filter . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman asked about the new director general designate 's previous work . |
| 6 | He asked about the regional conference . |
| 7 | and er you know if they did erm I mean Martin asked about the , he asked about the good wood guide you know and I told them where they can get it but that they can have it in their office and put it in their library . |
| 8 | Nobody asked about the French couple . |
| 9 | Here the different ways of seeing ‘ women in film ’ , especially in the controversies over realism , over documentary film-making , over the gaze and over representations of sexuality , converged , for once , in the serious questions those four women asked about the feminist film debate which I have outlined above . |
| 10 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 11 | Later , when the Porter came out on to the platform , Peter asked about the white line . |
| 12 | The Hon. Member for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) asked about the Scottish Development Agency investment in Stagecoach . |
| 13 | ‘ British Gas asked for a wide-ranging review in order to clarify our regulatory environment and develop a clear way ahead for the future . |
| 14 | The public prosecutor asked for a four-year sentence , but the judge sent Meyer to jail for six years . |
| 15 | ’ On the north-east corner he asked for a castellated bell tower in which to house the bell he had brought back from Lille . |
| 16 | The reason I asked for a preserved pension obviously to see whether there was any preserved benefits . |
| 17 | In 1982 the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales asked for a new Religious Education programme that would reflect this thinking . |
| 18 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |
| 19 | They had , it appears , expended upwards of £100 to that date and Millford asked for a new lease upon Fleming Royalties in Shaw 's and Wildhagen 's names . |
| 20 | They sensibly asked for a new kettle but were told that they could not have one because cuts meant that no new equipment or furniture of any kind was available . |
| 21 | However , the Guild also asked for a comprehensive home-help service so that women would not worry about the welfare of younger children and husbands , but this was not forthcoming . |
| 22 | The mixture of reactionary conservatism and political anti-semitism in the main represented a response of those who asked for a stable hierarchical society based on paternalistic deference . |
| 23 | Whitehall asked for a slower offtake of the gas , a guarantee that UK companies would share in the development of three platforms in 1990 , 1992 and 1994 , and that the natural gas liquids ( NGLs ) from Sleipner should go by UK pipelines to Flotta in the Orkneys . |
| 24 | She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan . |
| 25 | Next Brook asked for a second volunteer . |
| 26 | She asked for a second helping of spinach . |
| 27 | Hammond , as well as carefully going through the various room assignments with Hunt , asked for a two-storey fire-proof building with attic and basement , and limited accommodation for servants and messengers . |
| 28 | But erm , if so , please get in touch before Wednesday as they 've , he rang me up last night and asked for a final figure from us which he must |
| 29 | Then Swindon asked for a million pounds , Chelsea offered nothing , and Hoddle was valued at a maximum of 175 thousand pounds . |
| 30 | Last year , Thomas asked for a Mental Health Review Tribunal — and told how he had staged his madman act . |