Example sentences of "ask [Wh adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | People would stop in the street asking how we were and where we had come from all in perfect English . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You write up the offered words , correctly , without asking how they are spelled . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza has criticized Ruether here , asking how one should distinguish script from scripture . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Jealous people asking how I could earn such money on a government salary . ’ |
| 13 | She 's been round here a few times since her husband been away asking how I am . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's just a friendly letter , asking how you are . |
| 15 | I was asking how you enjoyed school . |
| 16 | Many people in the West have been asking how it can best jog things along . |
| 17 | ‘ A girl called Louise Stacey has been on to them , asking how she could contact you . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | How Malcolm was asking how he could help |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’ |
| 22 | From America and Germany , enthusiasts continued to ring Shenstone asking when they could buy one . |
| 23 | ‘ I would love [ the nursery ] to succeed , because I 've had so many people writing and phoning , asking when it 's opening , and if they can have jobs there . ’ |
| 24 | Ron finally became angry and wrote me a letter asking when I was going to turn up for training . |
| 25 | County are in danger of suffering their second relegation in successive seasons , and Pavis said : ‘ People have been writing to me asking when I 'm going to sack the manager . ’ |
| 26 | Adis has been asking when he 'll next see his father , a Bosnian Muslim fighting with the local militia . |
| 27 | Many local people are already asking when she begins her next fundraising venture . |
| 28 | Late , quite late , someone had called up to her , asking when she was going to come down . |
| 29 | Stuart , aged five , keeps asking when his daddy is coming home , she said . |
| 30 | Maybe they simply see the ark as a visible guarantee of God 's presence and of victory , but that understanding of it is no better , for then they turn it into an idol , ascribe to it magical powers , and leave us asking why they did not take it into battle in the first place . |