Example sentences of "[pron] ask a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Please forgive me , Mrs Hatton , if I ask a few routine questions , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you ever taken part in a fire drill , ’ I ask a ticket collector at a station on the Jubilee Line ( which was supposed to be called the Fleet Line until the GLC 's Horace Cutler decided to change it in deference to the Queen at a cost of £50,000 ) . |
| 3 | I ask a man whose family are working in a row at the digging . |
| 4 | The Patriarch said , ‘ I ask a favour of James of Cyprus . |
| 5 | You talk to me only when I ask a question . ’ |
| 6 | I ask a simple question to which I know that there is a simple answer , but I still think that it is worth a little time to discover it : why are the Government in such a desperate hurry to get the Bill back to the House on 26 February ? |
| 7 | So , for example , when I ask a group of students at the beginning of an interdisciplinary course in women 's writing and the visual arts , to come up with the names of any contemporary women artists , they can rarely mention more than one or two . |
| 8 | And what so often happens is I ask a fairly innocuous question . |
| 9 | And what we 've now done is put together a similar type of interview , but which is , as we said yesterday , a bat and ball situation , where I ask a question , he answers it , leaving the next question hanging if you like |
| 10 | If I ask an engineer how a steam engine works , I have a pretty fair idea of the general kind of answer that would satisfy me . |
| 11 | Yeah so I ask an E O , a C O , Jackie and all the different sort of sorts |
| 12 | You ask a man who has a bit more experience and plenty of common sense ad he 'll say to you , ‘ Get the lad in , bring him home to his parents and the father will give him a clip round the ear . ’ |
| 13 | If you ask a user what sort of system he wants you will be met with a blank look . |
| 14 | To appreciate this , imagine that you ask a friend to mark thirty numbered points randomly on graph paper ( unseen by you ) and that you are required to discover their positions , with no information other than the distances between any pairs you request . |
| 15 | Enthusiasts however , may have to be gently discouraged from making too many demands on your time and that when you ask a question you are not automatically expecting any action . |
| 16 | if you ask a subordinate to write you a report explain that you are expecting it by a specific date and always with a one page management summary |
| 17 | Whenever you ask a question of clarification or ask for information nine times out of ten clarification or information is forthcoming . |
| 18 | ‘ You ask a lot of questions , Master Clerk , from England ! ’ |
| 19 | Some months later I got a cheque for six hundred dollars — apparently a programme in America had done a feature on what can happen when you ask a stupid question and that was my fee for being included . |
| 20 | If you ask a roomful of people whether anyone has not had any sleep in the previous twenty-four hours , it is very rare indeed to find a serious candidate . |
| 21 | " You ask a most awkward thing , " he said . |
| 22 | ‘ You ask a lot of questions . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You ask a lot of us , Robert , ’ said Milton , gazing fixedly at Amiss 's uniform . |
| 24 | If you ask a question to the group who 's intending who can tend to ask for it ? |
| 25 | ‘ You ask a price . |
| 26 | Erm now he talks about the vanguards of revolutions i it 's just his distinction between the types of of peasant erm he looks at the rich peasants first of all and originally they 're , they 're not into revolution at all , you know , they do n't want to join peasant associations because they 've got nothing to gain erm as er er had said before , you know , p if you ask a rich peasant to join he 's gon na say well , you know , I 've never heard of such a thing before , you know , I 've , I can manage to live alright , I advise you to gi er give it up or alternatively he may just say , you know , good God no , you know , it 's too dangerous I , I do n't want to be knocked off by my landlord . |
| 27 | And it was always to , ye , you know , you ask a commercial artist what sort of lead time , that 's another , another er another word that you might come across , because again , you do n't want them to speak our jargon but we can speak there 's . |
| 28 | Would you like me to , yes , maybe ha , if you ask a question and have n't established what ? |
| 29 | If you ask an establishment figure these days about arms dealers they will tell you , ‘ I 'm sorry darling , but there really are n't any . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We ask a blessing of you , O Lord , as we go out on the beaches , and we pray for a really neat time and some big swells . |