Example sentences of "ask [pron] [adv] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when she asked me where we 'd be without him , my urge was to reply , ‘ Rich . ’ |
| 2 | The American captain of a supply ship was chatting to me one day and asked me where we were based . |
| 3 | Then she asked me why we treated social services staff differently from everyone else . |
| 4 | Whenever we feel guilty , it is worth asking ourselves why we feel angry and resentful . |
| 5 | Our culture is clearly a riotous heap of fragments and Erasure are asking us why we ca n't live together . |
| 6 | And 40 years ago you — or rather your semi-erect ancestors — were asking us why we did n't just change our name to New Accordion Express . |
| 7 | ‘ In other words , ’ Cranston half whispered to Athelstan , ‘ the fellow is asking us when we are going to bugger off . ’ |
| 8 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 9 | That is over a million pounds right in that budget for committee administration and you ask me where we can save fifty thousand pounds , well start producing a few less reports . |
| 10 | Yeah , so ask me how we did it , I really do n't know . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Go and ask him how we get back to our hotel , ’ he urges you . |
| 13 | ‘ Needless to say , ’ said Fonda , ‘ they would n't touch it , but Bert Schneider asked what else we 'd got . |
| 14 | He asked us where we were from . |
| 15 | We are the artists , and if our life is a dark , jagged abstract when we prefer Impressionist pastels which dance with light , we should ask ourselves why we painted it that way . |
| 16 | Let us rather ask ourselves how we would score bar 5 if it stood alone apart from its context , and adapt the first four bars to this arrangement so as to lead naturally into it . |
| 17 | Can I ask you why we ca n't film ? |
| 18 | Here again we can ask what else we could possibly start from other than what is given , that is to say the evidence of our senses . |