Example sentences of "[noun pl] ask them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before presenting the subjects with the lists for the second time , the researchers asked them to recall the words . |
| 2 | It is a bit like taking a poll of general election candidates asking them to state in public whether they think that they will win . |
| 3 | A questionnaire is being sent to all local General Election candidates asking them their views on the subject . |
| 4 | I wrote to the editors of all the major newspapers and television channels asking them to cover the anniversary . |
| 5 | I expect Hamish will be writing again pretty soon again too , but here I am sitting at the computer anyway , putting off writing a series of begging letters to friends and connections in various educational and other institutions and organizations asking them to submit to Chambers Harrap ( as we now are ) all partable-with unpublished bumf ( memos , minutes , notices , reports , etc , etc ) to swell the ‘ ephemera ’ ( new stretched meaning ) content of the British National Corpus of English . |
| 6 | Ken sent a pastoral letter to his clergy asking them to collect money for their relief , and , though his stipend was among the lowest of those of the English bishops , himself contributed £4000 . |
| 7 | Erm well we had a a big raffle erm we wrote away to all the local shops and restaurants ask them to donate prizes and we raised a lot of money through that and also my mum erm cooked Indian snacks which we sold during the interval erm which everyone loved and so it worked quite well . |
| 8 | Another A group perspective is that girls do succeed at what primary schools ask them to do , but that primary schools and teachers fail to prepare them adequately for more advanced mathematics . |
| 9 | New recruits ask them what a good idea . |
| 10 | Actually , Maximum John was sunnily good-humoured on Monday , refraining entirely from picking anybody up by the lapels to ask them , ‘ You what ? |
| 11 | He got together a serious amount of cash and called a meeting with the skaters to ask them what they wanted ; 3 skaters turned up . |
| 12 | Television documentary-makers asked them , respectfully , about exactly how they felt when they hacked their aged mothers to death or disembowelled a neighbour 's child . |
| 13 | Darlington transport committee heard yesterday Mr Drury has to write frequently to parents asking them not to park near the entrance . |
| 14 | Both sides were now preparing for war , but Norfolk and Rent made another attempt at mediation in mid-December when they wrote to all the prelates asking them to attend an assembly in London to discuss the king 's failure to abide by his coronation oath and Magna Carta . |
| 15 | erm Many primary school children have no timetable and they do n't bring homework home , and when the parents ask them what they did all day at school they say ‘ Nothing ’ , and some parents , that 's all they 've got to go on , and they , they get quite worried about it . |
| 16 | This necessitated approaching their parents to ask them to donate blood for DNA extraction . |
| 17 | Now he has written to builders , architects , surveyors and other organisations asking them to look into the problem . |
| 18 | Now , lawyers acting for the hoteliers have written to the tourist board officials asking them to retract their statement on proxy voting and to declare Monday 's decision to merge with Bute null and void . |
| 19 | He had written letters home and to his fiancée with poems asking them not to weep at his grave . |
| 20 | So they went found a found a colt in the street , tied it to the door of the houses , there was tying it , some of the by-standers asked them what are you doing , untying that colt . |
| 21 | Just before Christmas , Sir Peter Levene , the head of procurement at the MOD , sent a letter to all defence industry suppliers asking them to postpone sending invoices to the department for a month : officials needed to remedy a £400m ( $780m ) overrun on their year-to-date budget . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Novell chairman Ray Noorda is said to be circulating a letter among industry executives asking them to be expert witnesses in the FTC case against Microsoft . |
| 23 | Members are urged to write a polite reply to the National Commission for Human Rights asking them to take every step necessary to bring the perpetrators of Jose Ramon 's ‘ disappearance ’ to justice . |
| 24 | Invitations have been sent to 3,000 businesses asking them to the conference which is backed by the Health and Safety Executive and County Durham Training and Enterprise Council . |
| 25 | What they have in common with sociological research , however , is that they depend for the accuracy of their results on choosing the right people to ask , and on having the right questions to ask them . |
| 26 | Roy also revealed that at one stage they went to local paramilitaries to ask them to leave one young offender alone . |
| 27 | In execution of that policy it was proposed that a circular would be issued to all local authorities asking them to carry out a review of the curriculum in their areas in consultation with their schools and to report the results within about twelve months . |
| 28 | The hub of the prompting system is a database which sends requests to patients asking them to provide blood and urine samples for random plasma glucose , glycated haemoglobin , and albumin estimations ( fig 1 ) . |
| 29 | The House Armed Services Committee has turned down his request , but Mr Tallon yesterday sent a letter to all members asking them to petition President Bush . |
| 30 | They had sent round a circular to all members asking them to mention John whenever possible in their reports on the Middle East ; they had helped organize a petition among all members and accompanied Chris and me when we delivered it to the Iranian Embassy and Downing Street to mark John 's six hundredth day in December . |