Example sentences of "to ask my " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 2 | But I had no idea how to make them so I had to ask my tutor and show him the work . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll have to ask my husband about that , ’ replied the Princess . |
| 4 | Gawd , I 'd have to ask my wife . |
| 5 | I 'm going to ask my friends , the Mau Maus , to receive the offering . ’ |
| 6 | In view of this , it seemed a reasonable solution to ask my father to bring his great experience and distinction to Darlington Hall . |
| 7 | We had had our school trial in the concrete playground and I had made the team ; so here I was , complete with black Curtis plimsolls ( I had had to ask my Mum to buy me a pair ) and white ‘ Alf Ramsey ’ shorts . |
| 8 | She always used to ask my opinions of things and that now a lot of my answers made sense . |
| 9 | For many years I have wished to ask my aunt to visit our beautiful town , ’ she wrote , ‘ but have been deterred from doing so by the knowledge that she would have to pass this stark , staring figure . |
| 10 | ‘ If I need money , I still have to ask my parents . ’ |
| 11 | It was less the fear of hell ( which seemed a long time away ) than the fear of being a non-person which prompted me to ask my parents if I could be baptised . |
| 12 | One particular incident which sticks in my mind which brought home to me how ill he was occurred when my mother sent me one morning to ask my father what he wanted for breakfast , to which he replied in a very vague and confused manner " hen mush " ( the term we gave to the vegetable matter we cooked up for the chickens ) . |
| 13 | alright , so I 'm going to ask my casualty to hold my nice clean sterile pad that I 've got folded ready over the wound , there , gently , okay ? |
| 14 | Erm So erm I 'm going to ask my mother where one gets a marriage license . |
| 15 | He wanted to ask my advice on a business matter . |
| 16 | ‘ All kinds of people come to ask my advice , you would n't believe . |
| 17 | When I plucked up the courage to ask my mother about it she just burst into tears and I could not bring myself to question her again . |
| 18 | The electricity people called to ask my permission to put poles in my land so that they could take it even higher , and I agreed to it . |
| 19 | My first thought was that they must have come to ask my father for his help in interpreting . |
| 20 | She used to ask my mother too , endlessly attempting to work upon her soft-heartedness , whenever she so much as had a headache . |
| 21 | She had other daughters in the town but she always wanted me and if ever she wanted anything to do with her papers and books and financial things , she used to ask my husband to go in , you see the day after we got there she brought us a huge dish like that with mushrooms which er grew f er well there are houses built there now but er at that time they had a big meadow there sort of a copse er in it with a bunch of trees and you see and all these mushrooms grew , you see , and they were , you know , they 're nice you see . |
| 22 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 23 | ‘ It is a piteous shame that you did not have the civility to ask my permission . |
| 24 | Erm , what happens of course , is th that the lecture is brilliantly delivered , er , but , but , what happens is he , the chauffeur finishes two minutes early and the chairman , being excellent as a Chairperson , actually says , we have time for just one question , and er , someone stands up and asks the most dreadful question from the audience , and er , the chauffeur listens to the question , thinks , and th then says , that 's questions very easy , very easy indeed , that question is so easy , I 'm going to ask my chauffeur who is sitting at the back of the room |
| 25 | Why that should be when we know change is inevitable is something I shall have to ask my daughter . |
| 26 | ‘ It is difficult to ask my colleagues to risk their lives if nobody cares about the lives of the people , ’ Mr Mendiluce told reporters in Sarajevo . |
| 27 | ‘ I had to ask my caddie to stand behind me to make sure I was aiming correctly , ’ he said after pushing a 6-iron shot from the thirteenth tee then hooking wide of the short fifteenth green with the same club . |
| 28 | I 'M GOING to ask my next door neighbour if I can write his biography . |
| 29 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 30 | if I needed any I , I used to ask my boss or phone up head office and say petty cash is getting a bit low I 've used a lot of stamps last week , they 'd send me up a cheque and , never any question of they 've provided us with tea and the pint of milk I use , I , I 'd bring it in with me or ask the |