Example sentences of "[adv] ask [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can only ask ourselves more questions , and the answers we supply will reflect our own psychology . |
| 2 | A man who receives an electric shock does not ask himself whether he believes in the form of energy known as electricity . |
| 3 | He did not ask himself , as in my view he ought , whether on the undisputed evidence this might be a case for a verdict of death aggravated by lack of care . |
| 4 | Should we not ask ourselves whether the adulteress had a bad family upbringing , lacking in love , that she reacts in this way ? |
| 5 | She did not ask herself then under what compulsion he had made his plots or constructed his worlds ; she accepted them as one accepts fairy tales in childhood . |
| 6 | So I 'd just ask yourself the question before you react untoward towards a situation like this . |
| 7 | Perhaps we had best ask ourselves why our political institutions function as they do . |
| 8 | Did you ever ask yourself what I felt then , what I needed ? ’ |
| 9 | But these critics do not always ask themselves whether any society does not need a degree of unity in order to be a society at all , or how much diversity even a liberal society can tolerate without falling apart . |
| 10 | Finally , you must always ask yourself " What could have been done to prevent the crisis ? |
| 11 | In so far as the historian must now ask himself rigorously when confronted with new evidence , ‘ evidence for what ? ’ , this is an excellent thing . |
| 12 | The industrial tribunal , in judging the fairness of your employer 's actions , will often ask itself whether he : |
| 13 | You can simply ask yourself this question , sit quietly with pen and paper at hand , and expect the answers to come to you . |
| 14 | This suggests that the child does n't ask himself how the letters he has written down might be pronounced . |
| 15 | I did n't wonder why she 'd taken to using a typewriter when her last messages to me were handwritten , and I did n't ask myself how Edouard could have talked to me all that time without mentioning there was an envelope for me . ’ |
| 16 | Those who have the job of seeing that political studies libraries are kept up may well ask themselves if there is any point . |
| 17 | You can probably find things to say about how well George and Marie have gone about co-ordinating their marketing , financial and personnel activities , and you could even ask yourself whether they might not have been wiser to expand ( if that is what they still want to do ) in a different direction altogether . |
| 18 | Likely what hundreds of others had to do : wonder , and think , and stick their fingers in their ears ; some , on the other hand , might even ask themselves how long it would be before they could try it . |
| 19 | If he were tempted to decide against Mrs. McLoughlin , he would indeed ask himself whether any principled distinction could be drawn between her case and the case of mothers who recover for emotional damage suffered at the scene . |
| 20 | The third again focuses directly upon the child but we may sometimes ask ourselves whether the dissonance between child and parents , or child and society at large , is mutual rather than child-centred . |
| 21 | When we look at these disasters we must again ask ourselves how it was that Harris and Eaker could sustain those losses and go time and again . |
| 22 | Let us rather ask ourselves how we would score bar 5 if it stood alone apart from its context , and adapt the first four bars to this arrangement so as to lead naturally into it . |
| 23 | Er you must therefore ask yourselves the question , why is it therefore the government has decided to er re re remove the funding er for this particular project erm never mind they said er we now know how to build fast reactors , look there 's one we 've already built , a prototype we have th the , the er the th the blueprints , the drawings for a full scale version and when we actually need the fast reactors in say the year two thousand and ten or thereabouts , we 'll just get the blueprints out of the filing cabinet and we will build them . |