Example sentences of "i [verb] ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'd have done it willingly had I stopped to ask him , Bonnie , but I did n't . |
| 2 | ‘ Now what did I want to ask you … ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Should I 've asked Memet ? ’ asked Scarlet . |
| 4 | ‘ I asked — and I mean asked — you to get back into the car for you own safety . |
| 5 | I should know , I was , I mean ask Mark , you know , how many people are the are , its very naive to think that , that their civilians are in a , in a poor way but their military is as well . |
| 6 | Might be I mean ask Brian , see |
| 7 | He relapsed into silence then , and because my mind was still trying to grapple with the politics of a country I knew very little about , I failed to ask him whether Gómez had made that flight on his own or if he had had a crew with him . |
| 8 | Finally I got to ask him about Claude Rains . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , if these men wo n't talk , I got to ask you . |
| 10 | I got asked about it for months . |
| 11 | MORE tea , vicar ? is not the sort of thing I expected to ask minutes after arriving in a Swiss ski resort . |
| 12 | I hate to ask . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I hate to ask , after all you 've done , but there are one or two things I need . ’ |
| 14 | I hate asking favours of anyone , especially you , but if it does come to that — if your sister gets the police on my trail , do you think you could let me know ? |
| 15 | Do I need to ask where Lachlan is ? |
| 16 | Sue , can I , I need to ask him a question . |
| 17 | Round that erm I think he was found may I need to ask ? |
| 18 | I tried to ask him what he was talking about , but — ’ |
| 19 | I tried to ask the Prime Minister , in a parliamentary question , to give details of the additional charters in the various service areas which arise directly from his own citizens charter and to say when each of the new charters would be published . |
| 20 | ‘ I tried to ask Mum about it , but she changed the subject . |
| 21 | When I tried asking the girls I interviewed about them I was often met with a shrug , or a short ‘ no problem ’ reply , as if periods were nothing at all , of no significance , and certainly none to a book on looks , fashion and body-image . |
| 22 | And she said if I , I say ask her tomorrow if she can if she |
| 23 | It is because you do not lose touch with your present identity that I hesitate to ask the question ‘ What is your name ? ’ too early in the session ; the patient 's instinct would be to answer by giving me today 's name . |
| 24 | I I forget to ask him , to make it |
| 25 | ‘ I promised to ask around a bit , and it occurred to me that the book might contain a clue . ’ |
| 26 | Finally I ventured to ask her to come and dine with me in the Pláka , which had not then become a pandemonium . |
| 27 | ‘ But now I want to ask you something , seriously , ’ Harriet 's voice softens . |
| 28 | I want to ask Sonja if she thinks the postman lost it , but I stop myself . |
| 29 | I want to ask you only one question : do you want to stay together in your next life , or never meet again ? ’ |
| 30 | I want to ask you … |