Example sentences of "ask [Wh det] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I said erm I had a conversation with Gillian about reading , about little bits of reading and , I made the point that we 'd said last night about him barking at print , reading through words that he did n't know and not asking what they were and she said she 'd noticed that . |
| 2 | Before going on to examine the Franco-German relationship and the German Question in the next chapter , however , it is worth asking what it is about Britain that makes it so sensitive over national sovereignty . |
| 3 | In view of all of this , I find myself asking what it is about the Marxist method which is so appealing to Latin American theologians and those Christians committed to socialism . |
| 4 | Because I had a number of people who 've been on to me talking about the mess on the , on the recreation ground , and asking what it 's for , and as soon as you explain why , you know , it 's been accepted . |
| 5 | There was no point in asking what it was . |
| 6 | to leave us asking what it was , exactly , |
| 7 | It 's asking what I 'm gon na do about Jancey and Rachel . |
| 8 | The witty ones ask what it 's like to fly . |
| 9 | I mean you ask what it 's like erm being a member of the majority Labour group , being the leader of the City Council , it 's extremely hard work , it 's an enormous responsibility , and on many occasions it 's extremely frustrating because the amount of freedom that the City Council has to decide its policy and decide its spending priorities is reducing all the time . |
| 10 | Ask what it is trying to do for you , so that you can understand and forgive . |
| 11 | If we ask what it was about this society which made Pound and also Lewis affront it more or less deliberately , to ensure that its doors were closed to them , I think only one answer is possible : it was ineradicably vowed to the idea of the artist as the amateur . |
| 12 | But you go to the middle of nowhere and Nicky would look up to see a black cloud on the horizon and ask what it was . |
| 13 | ASK WHAT HE 'S AFRAID OF , and he finds it hard to think of one thing . |
| 14 | Somebody was going to have to ask after Brian soon , ask what he was up to , how he was getting on , but nobody wanted to . |
| 15 | Someone 's left a cup and saucer on the table , and when someone comes round , I pretend I 'm drinking just in case they ask what I 'm doing . |
| 16 | When one asks what they are , one is told , ’ Oh , well , the petrol company wants to build it . ’ |
| 17 | This evolutionary argument asks what it is about a feature that improves the animal 's chances of surviving and reproducing itself . |
| 18 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
| 19 | It may be asked what it is that disturbs a person when he feels the ‘ prick of conscience ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ In one reminiscence session somebody brought in an old-fashioned Victorian commode , which looked like a chair , and the group was asked what it was . |
| 21 | All Joe 's life he 'd been asked what it was like being Jerry Lewis 's kid and his answer was always : ‘ It 's great , he 's great ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Several people have asked what it was like to have to film scenes like that with your future daughter-in-law , ’ Jim says . |
| 23 | Asked what it was like to be home , Shane gestured to the crowd and said : ‘ Do I really need to answer that ? ’ |
| 24 | She was asked what it was like , really like , to be on the stage . |
| 25 | Gregson had asked what it was about . |
| 26 | Er I 'm often asked what it was like to live in those eventful days and as Colonel just said well , you used to make an awful lot of noise . |
| 27 | When asked what he was doing Schmit told the engineers : ‘ Leave me alone . |
| 28 | It may be asked what there is to stop people adopting inconsistent attitudes . |
| 29 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 30 | They even searched between the sheets and under the mattresses , and gave no answer when she asked what they were looking for . |