Example sentences of "asks [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " What if he asks me a direct question ? " |
| 2 | ‘ Only there is a young lady as lodges with me , who asks me every day what Mrs Browning writes and is eager to know for she announces she lives for your poetry . ’ |
| 3 | Sophie asks me every day when mummy is coming home . |
| 4 | In the opening chapter of the novel , Pierre Bloye , confronted by the corpse of his father , instinctively alienated by the rituals and incantations of an absurd funeral ceremony , despairing at his mother 's willing acquiescence to the arid conventions of petty-bourgeois existence , asks himself the fundamental question : " What sort of a man was my father ? " |
| 5 | Faced with the same claims about the effect of words like " fair " , the courts today apply a doctrine of " mistake " which precludes all review of the expert 's analysis , unless the expert values the wrong shares or asks himself the wrong question about concepts such as fairness : see Chapter 13 . |
| 6 | An expert can now make a final determination about the construction of documents provided he asks himself the right question . |
| 7 | When she asks you a question , stand up at once before you answer it . |
| 8 | The computer asks you a question via a sound card and gives you a choice of options on screen , and you respond by pressing the relevant button . |
| 9 | He would always teach trainees : " If a client asks you a question you do n't understand , say — " Hold on a minute sir , a call has just come through to me from the States " — put him on hold then , and ask me . |
| 10 | It 's like in in in in in interviews as well , like you do n't , som some people do but , if somebody asks you a question , you just try and answer it , you do n't really think about , erm , the way you construct everything . |
| 11 | That you know , that if anybody asks you to do this , or asks you a question connected with this , you can do it . |
| 12 | For example , let's say an old lady with a walking stick approaches you in the High Street and asks you the way to the nearest public toilets . |
| 13 | Yeah , that 's , that 's when it 's hard she asks you the same thing again and again and a few minutes later , then half an hour later , then , then you think have you listened |
| 14 | When Sir Oliver suggests asking eight or ten per cent on the loan , Mr Moses says if he asks him no more than that his impersonation will be discovered . |
| 15 | Inside the little shop , a doleful Asian youth wearing finger mittens , walled in behind racks of cheap digital watches , ballpoint pens , sweets , and music cassettes , shakes his head and shrugs when she asks him the name of the street . |
| 16 | The classical thing is if somebody comes up to you and asks what a physicist does , that 's the hardest question to answer . |
| 17 | Next time , we 're going back with a record player and a Thin Lizzy record , we 're going to plug it in and when he asks what the hell we 're doing , we 'll say , ‘ Just listening to that Les Paul on the wall there ! ' ’ |
| 18 | The lead article reacts to the closure of 18 newspapers and periodicals since the end of 1989 — four years after the restoration of democracy in Urugyuay — and asks what the root causes are . |
| 19 | However most practitioners of literary stylistics , including Halliday himself on a later occasion ( Halliday 1971 ) , would insist on supplementing the comparative approach just described with some kind of functional analysis — analysis , that is , that asks what the language of a text does , how it contributes to the meaning and effect of the whole . |
| 20 | Rather , this chapter asks what the implications are for the administrative system , should a state develop corporatist tendencies . |
| 21 | The one behind asks what the dogs are yelling at , but I do n't turn round . |
| 22 | He asks what the minimum necessary physical conditions are , what is the minimum amount of design work that a very lazy Creator would have to do , in order to see to it that the universe and , later , elephants and other complex things , would one day come into existence . |
| 23 | But there 's another the teacher asks us a question yeah |