Example sentences of "i ask the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I did Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest up in Manchester I read the novel and found a speech in the book that was really wonderful on the character and I asked the director if I could read it for him . |
| 2 | The Commissioner states in his report : ‘ Because it seemed to me that the Minister 's letter implied that the NHS had an absolute duty to provide care for the complainant 's father once it became clear that he could no longer meet the nursing home fees , I asked the DoH for clarification of the legal position and invited their general views . ’ |
| 3 | But I had to get research students from somewhere , so I asked the research councils to fund them , in the usual way , by submitting research proposals . |
| 4 | I asked the Medic . |
| 5 | To find out what the food was like in the RAF today I asked the Catering Branch to tell me how things were different from my days ( the 1950's , I 'm not that old ! ) . |
| 6 | I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around . |
| 7 | ‘ I wish I could be as certain but I asked the hospital to meet her as well just in case . |
| 8 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 9 | I asked the soldiers if I could take a photograph and was told : ‘ Only if you keep moving . ’ |
| 10 | It was scarcely credible that this should happen at so late a stage and I asked the department to get the minute to me at once . |
| 11 | I wanted to introduce Dana to Pernod , so I asked the old man for ‘ dos Pernod ’ . |
| 12 | On another day when I asked the question , she began slowly and with difficulty to lift the skirts of her dress , revealing bare knees . |
| 13 | I asked the inspector if there were any dogs we had n't yet seen . |
| 14 | I asked the old man why |
| 15 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 16 | I asked the girl at Reception . |
| 17 | Thinking quickly , I asked the driver to take me to Clonmacnoise instead , a famous holy city that stood in ruins scattered over a sloping river bank . |
| 18 | I asked the driver . |
| 19 | After a leisurely tea by a coal fire , I asked the clerk to phone for a taxi . |
| 20 | ‘ Let me out at Wine Street , ’ I asked the balladeer , as I prepared a silver handshake . |
| 21 | Against my better judgment , I asked the record man if he were able to bring impoverished blues singers over to Ireland . |
| 22 | I asked the Czech manager if they would be at Rutland Water in June and he said they would not be able to afford it . |
| 23 | In what I hope was a rare lapse into intolerance , I asked the reporter next to me : ‘ Does that little sod always talk like that ? ’ |
| 24 | I asked the villagers if they had seen him and Mr Natchet , the postman , said he had met him by the front gate when delivering letters about a month ago . |
| 25 | When I asked the woman in Lima in charge of the government 's tourist agency FOPTUR what image of Peru was being promoted to attract a hoped for 780 million dollars worth of tourists within the next couple of years , she told me : ‘ I could say we have everything here — the three regions , mountains , coast and jungle ; beaches and adventure . |
| 26 | He goes on : ‘ I asked the whole frame of the world about my God ; and it answered me , ‘ I am not he , but he made me . ’ ’ |
| 27 | I asked the old man about this client from the North and he remembered her . ’ |
| 28 | I asked the I Ching one more question . |
| 29 | I asked the officer who was looking out of the window if there was a curfew . |
| 30 | I asked the old man , his nose almost level with the steering wheel of his equally elderly car . |