Example sentences of "ask each " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also it was hard to know what to say to Anne — that 's my wife — when she asked each evening ‘ How was your day ? ’ |
| 2 | As we descended through the darkness into Cuzco on an endless series of switchbacks , their daughter asked each of us to sing a song for her from our own countries . |
| 3 | Using the deliberately open ended trigger sentence , we then asked each student to take two minutes , working alone , to identify one ‘ good ’ factor from their own personal experience of learning on their course . |
| 4 | Interpreting Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson 's ideas literally , Whitaker asked each of his ‘ historical ’ authors to include sequences with famous figures of the past : Nero , Napoleon , Marco Polo and so on . |
| 5 | Alexander the Great knew this intuitively when , himself having been wounded in the thigh , he walked round his wounded men and asked each to talk about his experience in the battle and how his wound had been received . |
| 6 | ‘ What sort of people kill innocent little children ? ’ people asked each other , and men flocked to join up . |
| 7 | After we had docked , a representative of Inflot , the Russian equivalent of Trinity House , apologetically asked each of us to sign more documents . |
| 8 | Who , they asked each other , was this newcomer , who had succeeded where so many others had failed ? |
| 9 | They gawped at Min and asked each other what on earth it was . |
| 10 | In an attempt to prevent this slow creep the department asked each local office to set a maximum upper weekly limit for fees in their area . |
| 11 | The chairman asked each candidate to give a one sentence reason why people should vote for them . |
| 12 | They can not accept that I should cast votes on their behalf without first asking each of them what they think . |
| 13 | They tell such horror stories as GE putting up sales teams from competing suppliers in the same hotel and then moving from room to room asking each supplier to think about reducing its bid for the contract . |
| 14 | They were bustling anxiously from room to room , forgetting things , making last minute plans , asking each other how they looked . |
| 15 | One teacher organised a sorting game by asking each child in the group to choose and bring a toy from around the room ; there was a farm lorry , a helicopter , a golliwog , a breakdown lorry , a helmet and a domino brick . |
| 16 | At the beginning of a recording session , start by asking each speaker in turn to say a few words . |
| 17 | For instance , sitting down with some of the battered wives , she leaned across the table , chin on hand , asking each woman in turn : ‘ How long can you stay here ? |
| 18 | Both children were always asking each other : Shall I tell you ? |
| 19 | In turn this can not be obtained through asking each part of the organisation for its views . |
| 20 | Then they can go back to asking each other where they got their blow-drys and leave the rest of us in peace . ’ |
| 21 | They 're asking each other did they know what was going to happen ? |
| 22 | In uniform and in plain clothes , roughly 50 were on different shifts asking each shopper for more information . |
| 23 | and I laughed about the onlookers asking each other ‘ Who are they ? ’ and trying to place us . |
| 24 | They began to drift into amiable silence when they had asked each other questions about their children and the schools , and the plans they had for their holiday in Ireland . |
| 25 | As each question is asked each team goes into a huddle and then writes down its answer . |
| 26 | As each question is asked each team goes into a huddle and then writes down its answer . |
| 27 | that both Gethwyn and Russell sorted out er who up on on those extremes that you get in a group that , that maybe feel they re that they really have nothing to , hardly anything to do with us they 've do n't receive ministry and why should that be , and after be asked each year , has to go up ? |
| 28 | He asks each one to say the oath with him . |
| 29 | What movies have you been in recently ? ’ — he asks each of them what she knows about Claude Cohn-Casson . |
| 30 | Ask each one of the family to make a list of how they spend their time and what changes they would like to make if given the chance . |