Example sentences of "ask if [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a meeting of the Company on 5th November 1491 , called at the request of Thomas Rich in the name of Julian Shaa and the other executors , the Goldsmiths asked if they might have £40 clear : this would allow them to fulfil all their obligations , to have some money spare for repairs and suchlike , and also to appropriate the balance to their own use . |
| 2 | He stood up slowly , asked if they would like coffee , made his way out of the room when they accepted the offer . |
| 3 | So when Grandad 's uncle , Richard Tallentire , asked if they could bring Mother up , they agreed to let her go . |
| 4 | Clare had accidentally metamorphosed into a baker ten months before , when David took some of her homebaked bread to friends who lived nearby : they asked if they could buy bread regularly from her . |
| 5 | He quickly wrote to London to apologise , and asked if he might use Dr. Watt 's " Short View of the Whole Scripture History " , asserting that " the author was a Dissenter , and the introduction of it into the School is not likely to create any fresh difficulty " . |
| 6 | ‘ He sat on the sofa with tea and biscuits and asked if he could watch Coronation Street . |
| 7 | He did n't say , ‘ Get lost , Kraut , ’ but just asked if he could borrow Speich 's note-pad and ball-point . |
| 8 | When he asked if he could take part , the gentlemen archers looked at him and at his bow and , thinking it doubtful he could hit anything at 100 yards , gave their permission if his father looked after him . |
| 9 | Well this woman came round last night and asked if I 'd take part . |
| 10 | Then the lady in charge asked if I could alter garments that were too long or too short and , mug that I am , I agreed . |
| 11 | I realised there were periods of time when this pool is hardly used , so I approached the management and asked if I could bring parties of residents here from Conway House . |
| 12 | My teacher , Mr Taylor , did tell us to do our talk on something we knew about , so I asked if I could bring Dawn in and tell the other kids about what I was doing . |
| 13 | Only later , much later , when Penman knocked and asked if she would like tea , did it strike her that she had no idea why Michael Swinton had really called . |
| 14 | One day the married niece asked if she could use Auntie 's old sewing-machine to run up some curtains : her own machine had broken down . |
| 15 | In a voice that shook in spite of her efforts to control it , she asked if she could see Mrs Blessington-Dalrymple . |
| 16 | People kept asking if they could see upstairs.It 's a constant challenge to restore the house . |
| 17 | ‘ Do not deal with people who come knocking on your door asking if they can do work or sell you goods or services , unless you are sure what you are getting into , ’ says a Gwynedd Trading Standards leaflet . |
| 18 | This lady must have been psychic or something , because in no time at all she was asking if I could enlarge necks on jumpers that other people had made too small to go over the head . |
| 19 | Mrs Whitehouse wrote on behalf of the NVALA to the then Home Secretary , Roy Jenkins , asking if he would declare Thorsen an ‘ undesirable alien ’ , to which they received a negative reply . |
| 20 | People ask if they can buy bags of flies , or if the plants eat mother-in-laws . |
| 21 | I gather the class and ask if they can play grown-ups . |
| 22 | She asks if we 'd like whisky or rum in our coffees , and the tension eases . |
| 23 | ‘ Fräulein Baum asks if you will take coffee with her . ’ |
| 24 | Asked if they would lose respect for a woman who was prepared to sleep with them on a first date , 24% neither agree nor disagree ; 18% strongly disagree ; 17% tend to disagree ; 16% tend to agree ; 15% strongly agree and 10% do n't know . |
| 25 | When asked if they would like subventions from the state to aid their stipends and church buildings , a move which was being seriously considered by the British government at the time , priests and bishops were united in rejecting the idea on the grounds that it would drive a wedge between clergy and people , identifying clergy with the principal enemies of the people . |
| 26 | In Port Erin , where a women 's camp was set up , landladies were asked if they would accept internees at 3/ a day . |
| 27 | They wondered why they were asked if they could stand heights and naturally no one admitted to such a weakness so seven volunteers were picked to appear in Les Jambes de la Femme . |
| 28 | IN RECOGNITION of their expertise in stainless steel welding , Enterprise Engineering Services was recently asked if they could help Woodlands School in Aberdeen . |
| 29 | ‘ The League will be asked if they will release money back to the club in the short term with the promise that it will be repaid from future transfer revenue . |
| 30 | For children older than 6 years they are asked if they can inhibit urination for an hour to teach bladder retention . |