Example sentences of "ask [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the next few experiences the discrimination may still be uncertain — ‘ which ’ , we ask ourselves , ‘ of the two wines is this present specimen ? ’ |
| 2 | At SAVE we ask ourselves three simple questions : |
| 3 | The God-shaped vacuum within us makes itself felt most when we ask ourselves — or our psychiatrist — ‘ Who am I ? ’ |
| 4 | Even now , Bob Wall and I , when thinking over a problem , ask ourselves , ‘ What would Herbert Chapman have done ? ’ |
| 5 | I think that Lawrence gives us our first clue in the writing of dialogue : that we must listen and , having listened , ask ourselves how we feel about the voice we 've just heard . |
| 6 | We less frequently ask ourselves whether what and how we teach and the way in which we organise and manage our schools could themselves be a major cause of children 's difficulties . |
| 7 | He is the player we bring to mind first when we ask ourselves what football looks like when we enjoy it most . ’ |
| 8 | First of all ask ourselves is this a genuine problem ? |
| 9 | How we re serve our members , communicate with our members and ask ourselves the question , do we give them what they want ? |
| 10 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 11 | Where next , we ask ourselves ? |
| 12 | Is this why , we ask ourselves , the Local Education Authority , out of one hundred and thirty teachers it promised extra to employ during this current financial year , there are only sixty three visible new teachers , and sixty seven of them are alas imaginary ? |
| 13 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 14 | Did Boy ever ask himself why he did n't dream about men , when he got home from The Bar — why he had instead these strange dreams of shoots , bulbs and roots ; roots kept in the dark , waiting to flower , needing a gardener 's attention ? |
| 15 | As a moral imperative , far from being incommensurable with his previous considerations , it merely adds others similar in kind ; he now has to see things from his parents ' viewpoint as well as his own , consider their health and resources , ask himself how much they have done to arouse his gratitude or his rancour , whether his staying would really do them any good , whether he can get on with them without quarrelling , and add all this to the information which he must assimilate before he lets the needle of his internal compass finally settle in the direction of Bali or of home . |
| 16 | he must of ask himself where it , where are all the newspapers |
| 17 | So let's , ask ourself these questions , not just for this woman of Samaria but for us , why did our Lord seek the interview with this woman ? |
| 18 | Both Muslims and their liberal opponents should now shun the dramatic dogmaticism of former days and ask themselves : is freedom of speech a negotiable value ? |
| 19 | No defence collaboration without representation will be the refrain , as Americans increasingly ask themselves what is in it for them . |
| 20 | Farmers in Scotland ask themselves four main questions : |
| 21 | One trap to be aware of is that of relying simply on checklists of good practice ( like , ‘ Keeping the school under review ’ — ILEA ( 1977 ) ) : teachers ask themselves whether or not their schools are carrying out each item , the implication being that if they are not , they should be . |
| 22 | Or partners may look at each other across the breakfast table once the children have left home and ask themselves what they still have in common . |
| 23 | To cut a long story short , next time music retailers start moaning about the recession why do n't they take a good look in the mirror and ask themselves who actually feeds them ? |
| 24 | Why do not the Bishops of England and Wales sit down and ask themselves why there is a shortage of priests , why there are not many vocations , and why laity are lapsing in numbers , including many young people ? |
| 25 | ‘ Women ask themselves why they do n't look like us , ’ she remarks in Lindbergh 's film . |
| 26 | All mothers ask themselves ‘ Why ? ’ when their children 's marriages fail . |
| 27 | They have got the platform of competence and confidence to look beyond the day-to-day realities of school and classroom life and ask themselves hard questions about it . |
| 28 | One of the most difficult questions which teachers ask themselves throughout their professional lives concerns the nature of the differences between pupils . |
| 29 | Did the elderly have minds like old wardrobes stuffed to overflowing with useless memories and take them out sometimes and look at them and ask themselves why they were there ? |
| 30 | Those three men on the pier , did they too , sometimes ask themselves … ? |