Example sentences of "ask they [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I fell on my knees and asked them not to punish the child any more . |
| 2 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 3 | He had written letters home and to his fiancée with poems asking them not to weep at his grave . |
| 4 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 5 | The court heard that her husband had become suspicious early last year and had gone to the National Westminster bank asking them not to release any further cheque books . |
| 6 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 7 | The press could provide little enlightenment because all newspapers had received a D-Notice asking them not to print any details about the background to the case . |
| 8 | Indeed , this union had a campaign of sending postcards out to MPs asking them not to vote for the abolition of Wage Councils . |
| 9 | Darlington transport committee heard yesterday Mr Drury has to write frequently to parents asking them not to park near the entrance . |
| 10 | Afterwards viewers sent a deluge of complaints about how boring the show was and asking them never to return to the Hacienda . |
| 11 | And then you 've got ta ring them up and ask them again to see who 's to see who Cos they usually say , Well I 'll see what I can do , and then you 've got to ring them up again and see if they 've done anything , and and er and then sometimes you 've got ta ring them up again . |
| 12 | go to other people and ask them up to dance and all do you ? |
| 13 | If you have to clean a patient 's eyes , take great care and ask them not to move . |
| 14 | The teacher accompanying the children had asked them not to sit along the back seat . |
| 15 | She knew that the one thing that her mother would never provide money for was a training in medicine , so she wrote eventually to the Boys ' Own Paper to ask them how to go about it , inventing a letter that was supposed to come from a badly-off boy whom she thought would enlist their sympathy . |