Example sentences of "ask some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think erm Winston Churchill when he went for his Eton exam or the entrance exam to Eton or something and erm y'know they asked some question and he and he goes on and erm after five minutes he wrote his name , very neatly , right ? |
| 2 | Erm You asked some while ago whether it should n't be possible at least to have a an agreed view on how many people are dying as it were . |
| 3 | ‘ Where are we going ? ’ she asked some time later . |
| 4 | One was dearly asking some favour on behalf of a client : bail or a visitor 's pass or access to official files . |
| 5 | You ask some kid , he 'll say there you are I 've got three pens on the table now take away seven . |
| 6 | Anyway , it was that programme where this man comes on half-way through and asks some catch question and if you know the answer you have to phone in quick before the end of the programme . |
| 7 | My parents were discussing some incident in the past and , when I joined in the conversation to ask some question , they told me , as they often had on similar occasions , ‘ Of course , that was before you were born . ’ |
| 8 | A more immediate peril was her frail stupid desire to ask some sort of help from either Gildas or Ludens . |