Example sentences of "ask [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Has Dickie told you yet you had a phone-call ? ’ she asked over her shoulder . |
| 2 | Patterson asked over my shoulder as we left Brixton . |
| 3 | ‘ Why ? ’ he asked over his shoulder . |
| 4 | Sandy was going to the US and I asked if I could carry for him the next year , but everybody was asking so I did n't get very far . |
| 5 | And indeed er the Association of er Chartered er er the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants wrote to me recently er asking exactly what the position is and I quote from the letter , they say firms of accountants are quite likely to be engaged by the same client to perform services other than a statutory audit and then they go on to list financial planning and so on . |
| 6 | She pushed her mistake to the back of her mind — and then found that , although the question was on her list , that she was asking off her own bat , and with no thought to that list , ‘ Are you married ? ’ |
| 7 | Aye I was just asking really I was just gon na ask , Well were you all born in this house ? |
| 8 | ‘ Have you tried asking around her friends ? ’ |
| 9 | So obviously I 'll be asking well I 'll be asking Catherine how to do things |
| 10 | Now it reports in here a survey carried out in The Doctor , September the twenty sixth , and it was asking there who they actually supported in terms of the National Health Service changes , and you may be surprised to hear who in fact came out on top of that . |
| 11 | The problems arise when we shift to the first person , asking how we come to have knowledge of the world , and asking how we are justified in dismissing the possibility that reality is wholly other than we take it to be . |
| 12 | The problems arise when we shift to the first person , asking how we come to have knowledge of the world , and asking how we are justified in dismissing the possibility that reality is wholly other than we take it to be . |
| 13 | Ethics is normally thought of as dealing with questions of action , asking how we ought to act , what it is , in various circumstances , our duty to do , and how we can know it . |
| 14 | People would stop in the street asking how we were and where we had come from all in perfect English . |
| 15 | Since writing about this in New Scientist , I have received numerous letters from readers asking how they can do the same thing in Britain and Europe . |
| 16 | You write up the offered words , correctly , without asking how they are spelled . |
| 17 | From 1977 onwards the DES sent a series of circulars to LEAs asking how they were discharging their duties under the 1944 Education Act to monitor the curriculum in the schools . |
| 18 | Following her tours of Australia and Canada she felt enough confidence to renew her friendships and wrote a number of letters asking how everyone was and what they were doing . |
| 19 | Having waited patiently to see the fruits of Independence , people are now asking how their ‘ daytime socialist ’ leader can afford to drive brand-new imported cars while ‘ shortage of foreign exchange ’ prevents purchase of spare parts for the run-down buses . |
| 20 | Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza has criticized Ruether here , asking how one should distinguish script from scripture . |
| 21 | After asking how I was getting on he told me something of the worries of a Party leader in days when there are no deep political convictions to divide men of good will . |
| 22 | ‘ Jealous people asking how I could earn such money on a government salary . ’ |
| 23 | She 's been round here a few times since her husband been away asking how I am . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's just a friendly letter , asking how you are . |
| 25 | I was asking how you enjoyed school . |
| 26 | Many people in the West have been asking how it can best jog things along . |
| 27 | ‘ A girl called Louise Stacey has been on to them , asking how she could contact you . |
| 28 | And , too , another part of her mind was asking how he dare go almost insane because his daughter had committed the so-called sin when he himself , by his own admission , was keeping a woman on the side . |
| 29 | How Malcolm was asking how he could help |
| 30 | He said : ‘ We are trying to keep the kids informed because he is a very popular lad and lots of people keep asking how he is . |