Example sentences of "to ask [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here we need to ask ourselves a whole range of questions associated with the ways in which staff are managed in general and about the ways in which appraisal will be managed in the future — for there are choices to be made there in particular . |
| 2 | ‘ I meant to ask you a long time ago and I forgot to . |
| 3 | ‘ I was going to ask you a small favour , ’ said Mr Chan . |
| 4 | Now I am going to ask you a simple question and you are going to give me a simple answer . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Besides , I wish to ask you a big favour . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ No , you 'd do that for about three or four days and then he 'd decide to ask you the same question again just to see if you did look it up . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was about to ask you the same question . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was about to ask you the same question . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I was about to ask you the same question . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I had thought to ask you the same thing . |
| 11 | I I 'm very grateful to the minister but I want to ask him a straightforward question . |
| 12 | If the woman says ‘ yes ’ to ( a ) the interviewer wants to ask her a whole list of questions about her life . |
| 13 | Whether she had or not , he felt compelled to ask her a last question , even if it did annoy or depress her . |
| 14 | I want to ask her an embarrassing question . ’ |
| 15 | Can you see it requires more in a static holding , this is building muscle power and you have to do things , and muscle can build it if , it c if you asked that those legs to do that every day they would get better at it , because what the body would then do would be build in more muscle fibre to cope with the job , so can you see it , what you ask the body to do , you 've got to ask it the right amount , not too much or else you damage and you 've got to ask it regularly and gradually increase it if you want to improve the muscle power . |
| 16 | If , they say , projects are not found acceptable purely on the basis of the tangible benefits , then it may be useful to turn around the investment question to ask what the present value of the benefits must be to justify the investment . |
| 17 | In assessing the genuineness or otherwise of a transaction , it is , of course , perfectly proper and logical to ask what the real purpose was . |
| 18 | The start of every cricket season causes cricketers of all standards and all ages to ask themselves the basic question , ‘ have I still got the old skills ? |