Example sentences of "had [adv] ask [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day , she had shyly asked the Princesse whether Portia might come and spend a week with her at the beginning of the summer break . |
| 2 | You had better ask a lawyer . ’ ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps you had better ask the Prince . ’ |
| 4 | We managed to get down to question No. 19 , and the hon. Member for Dundee , East ( Mr. McAllion ) had already asked a question . |
| 5 | I was amazed by her self-control , and could not understand why Mr Rochester had not asked the police to arrest her , or at least dismissed her from his service . |
| 6 | Masklin had just asked the same question . |
| 7 | In a mild voice he had just asked the porter to come up , with some story about a tap dripping in the kitchen . |
| 8 | Islington could have saved its council and charge payers a great deal of money if it had just asked the advice of a local geography teacher and been told that it is better to go to France to learn French . |
| 9 | You had best ask the purveyor that question . ’ |
| 10 | One night Len 's wife , a small woman , had repeatedly asked a trio of Teds from the next village to cut down their noise and stop carving the backs of the seats . |
| 11 | The Iranian authorities countered that they had repeatedly asked the Turkish government to present evidence for such claims . |
| 12 | It was in this spirit that Hassan had now asked the Shah to Morocco . |
| 13 | The spokesman said airport staff had met with Mr Rodgers and had now asked the councillor to put his complaints in writing . |
| 14 | Recently his complaints had been more and more concerned with his wife : he had even asked the doctor to ‘ tell Susie ’ to give up her job and stay at home . |
| 15 | Dan had even asked the other couple to join up , but they could n't , they had their plane to catch . |
| 16 | Toby had evidently asked the doctor to be quiet . |
| 17 | The fact that he had never asked the man if he 'd been able to fix the problem , Folly suddenly realised , was proof enough that the supposedly leaky tap was just an excuse to provide her with a chaperon . |
| 18 | The Djibouti government , he said , had never asked the French to mediate with the FRUD ; they had merely been asked to honour the mutual defence agreement signed between the two countries in 1977 , which they had singularly failed to do in the face of the FRUD " invasion " . |