Example sentences of "[not/n't] ask [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not ask him to admire anything . |
| 2 | ‘ Why not ask him ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Will he have sweet or dry sherry ? ’ or ‘ Where is the pain he complains of ? ’ make it your golden rule to reply , ‘ Why not ask him ? ’ |
| 4 | Artemis did n't understand what he meant , but dared not ask him . |
| 5 | She did not ask him his name , for she did not wish to know it . |
| 6 | Since I was not going to discuss the future with him , I did not ask him to elaborate , but I registered his disappointment and thought that , if that was how he felt , he was making it easier for me to leave him . |
| 7 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
| 8 | She dare not ask him whether his proposal was thereby withdrawn . |
| 9 | I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit . |
| 10 | David looked rather odd as she said that , but he left so quickly that she could not ask him anything about it and picked up her book to absorb the time until Annunziata brought in her supper . |
| 11 | Maybe I shall hear full soon enough , but I dare not ask him about the poor lady . |
| 12 | She did not ask him why he wanted to speak to them . |
| 13 | She had to find out whether her suspicions were true or not , and how else could she ever hope to do that if she did not ask him directly ? |
| 14 | No , I am dealing with the Foreign Secretary , who gave me a circumlocutory reply to a question that I did not ask him . |
| 15 | We can not ask him , because he is not here , but it is an important question , to which his constituents have a right to know his answer . |
| 16 | This was the one question Robert had been hoping the headmaster would not ask him . |
| 17 | ‘ Why not ask him yourself ? ’ |
| 18 | He followed her into the living-room but she did not ask him to sit down . |
| 19 | It provides no evidence for worsening health among the unemployed for that period , but it did not ask its respondents about symptoms , just about overall health or disability . |
| 20 | She handed him the tube , being fairly and correctly sure he would not ask her outright to rub it in for him . |
| 21 | He could not ask her to define it further , that would be asking for flattery . |
| 22 | Susan broke off and leaned back , looking so tired that Breeze could not ask her any of the things she naturally wanted to know , about their father 's last weeks of life . |
| 23 | I can not ask her to suffer further for what may never be . |
| 24 | She wondered a little resentfully why he did not ask her to go , though she would have been scared if he actually had done so ; she lacked a North American youngster 's experience with the opposite sex . |
| 25 | ‘ I did not ask her what she had taken it for . |
| 26 | She murmured a ‘ good morning ’ and did not ask her what the hell she was doing there so unexpectedly . |
| 27 | He hoped she would spare some time for him and he promised he would not ask her to act in anything . |
| 28 | ‘ My dears , we can not ask her , we simply can not , such finery — ’ |
| 29 | Why not ask her yourself ? ’ |
| 30 | He did not ask her to sit down but said to her straightaway , ‘ What has she told you ? ’ |