Example sentences of "ask [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As each man drew his money and put his cross , Jonadab asked the same question .
2 In the previous June when Marplan asked the same question , 35 per cent expressed support for opting out .
3 I was just going out when a man came in and asked the same question .
4 Brook then asked the same volunteer to read again , but to stop after each name .
5 Belinda asked the same thing .
6 I 'm not asking the same question .
7 He might have the will to fight back , but everyone is asking the same question : ‘ Does he have the way ? ’
8 He might have the will to fight back , but everyone is asking the same question : ‘ Does he have the way ? ’
9 As , yet again , Britain started its mopping up operation , tired rescue workers , tearful home owners and others were asking the same question : Whatever caused the heavens to open ?
10 Had you been living in Oxford and asking the same question I think well then it 's erm you know , it 's obviously a very valid question .
11 Now down to your questions , and I 'll let you get away with enquiring about Lemmings on the C64 this time — see the Stuff column — but anyone else asking the same thing will feel my steel .
12 Just just er just so I can be absolutely sure about that I think I 'm say I 'm asking the same thing that the senior inspector 's just asked .
13 Heather Mallender started asking the same sort of questions you 're asking — and look what happened to her .
14 she asks the same question over and over again .
15 Many readers ask the same question , and the fact is you DO have to pay the correct price for goods , even if the shop has mistakenly put a lower price on the label .
16 Not merely does the hon. Gentleman ask the same question each time ; he asks the same supplementary .
17 Ask the same person and I 'll catch it on tape .
18 Had she been asked the same question in different surroundings her amazement might have been tempered with doubt that Nahum Morey was in his right mind , but in this confined space she began to share his conviction that they had been drawn together by their various needs .
19 Masklin had just asked the same question .
20 For example , it has been pointed out that one person can not be asked the same question twice , the second time he is not the same person because he has already been asked the question once .
21 There were a few who would have asked the same question , looking at Joan Rush , senior project officer with the fund , a prime mover in the group which has beavered away at the subject to bring it into the mainstream of policy and practice .
22 The LFS has asked the same question about temporary working only since I 9836 and the latest survey results available are those from 1986 .
23 The figures are different to the perception of those not incontinent who were asked the same question : 71% ( 2564 ) thought that the condition would have a great deal or fair amount of effect on their lifestyle and only 20% ( 692 ) not much or none at all .
24 One of the most rewarding things about being a lawyer in local government [ and a striking contract with private practice ] is that you rarely get asked the same question twice and usually the problems require imaginative legal thinking .
25 Councillor Bellamy had asked the same question , Carolyn recalled .
26 When , each morning of that first anxious week , Colonel de Barescut attended the sickbed at Souilly to report on the events of the previous night , he had been asked the same question : ‘ What 's new on the Left Bank ? ’
27 She had asked the same thing following the last two births , Hubert 's and Robin 's .
28 But I was asked the same thing after Duncton Wood came out , I said I 'd never do another and I 've written five more .
29 ‘ If you had asked the same plumber three times to fix a leak , and , every time he has been , he has pottered around a bit and he has gone away , telling you he has fixed it and there you are standing in the kitchen up to your waist in water , are you going to call the same plumber to fix it again ? ’ he asked .
30 The peasant then walks past the corpse for a second time and emerges to ask the same question .
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