Example sentences of "ask [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We asked ourselves what we could do to make the shops busy . |
| 2 | We had to believe the photographs which appeared in the newspapers , but I think we all asked ourselves how such things could be in a so-called civilised world . |
| 3 | Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 4 | So we asked ourselves whether this catalogue would still find a corresponding resonance , given the flood of technical literature which is currently circulating in the ceramics market . |
| 5 | He asked himself whether he was someone like Arthur Benson , the Master of Magdalene , for whom books were a form of escapism from the real world . |
| 6 | Ramsey asked himself whether if the electors had been the university officers without the bishop they would have regarded a man of one book as electable . |
| 7 | Afterwards he asked himself whether he did all that he should have done about the miners and the working men . |
| 8 | He asked himself whether Fisher would recommend him to the Crown as his successor . |
| 9 | He asked himself , who else ? |
| 10 | Ramsey asked himself . |
| 11 | Gazing out into the blue , he asked himself if this assignment was his swan song . |
| 12 | Now , he asked himself as he chewed the bread , do I always do it like that ? |
| 13 | ‘ And how are you going to stop him , then ? ’ he asked himself scornfully . |
| 14 | Afraid of what , though , he asked himself ? |
| 15 | Why am I lying , Fairbrother asked himself angrily . |
| 16 | He asked himself , I wonder what this old warrior 's reaction would be if I told him I had fallen in love with a married woman ? |
| 17 | Is Myles like that ? he asked himself . |
| 18 | Am I the only one , he asked himself , who cares anything for Durkin ? |
| 19 | What 's it to you ? he asked himself irritably . |
| 20 | He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions . |
| 21 | What had he learnt , he asked himself ? |
| 22 | When Charles Temple , impelled by his love of logical discourse , asked himself what might be the ultimate evolution of the system of Indirect Rule , he replied that , by allowing ‘ natural conditions to exert their influence in a manner modified to meet the requirements of the native group ’ , Indirect rule would ‘ in due course of time ’ , render that group ‘ robust enough to stand by itself ’ . |
| 23 | But , he asked himself : |
| 24 | When Charles Temple asked himself what form the finally evolved connection between the conquering races and the conquered , now existing in partially evolved form as Indirect Rule , and based on ‘ the relations which exist between a more competent man and a less competent ’ , might take , he answered that he saw no reason |
| 25 | Did n't great art lead to God ? he asked himself . |
| 26 | However , it was clear from the Special Commissioner 's decision that he had looked at all the evidence and asked himself whether in view of that evidence it had been reasonable for the inspector to form the view he had taken . |
| 27 | Prince Richard was struck by her beauty — why , he asked himself , have not I noticed it before ? |
| 28 | But now , talking to Joan , seeing her changing expressions , he asked himself how it had been so — apart from their dress , it seemed to him then that there was after all no strong likeness between them . |
| 29 | Why , he asked himself , had his uncle , Earl Rivers , been placed under arrest ? |
| 30 | Was it a warning ? he asked himself later . |