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Example sentences for "ask him"

  • I tote water for Uncle Jake whenever he wants me to, and any time I ask him he gives me a little something to eat if he can spare it.

  • I have no questions to ask him," Potter's lawyer replied.

  • The prisoner raised his eyes for a moment, but dropped them again when his own counsel said: "I have no questions to ask him.

  • You been into some other audacious mischief when I wasn't around, like enough.

  • The artist erected a man in the front yard, that resembled a derrick.

  • If she'll let up on some of the roughest things, I'll smoke private and cuss private, and crowd through or bust.

  • So that at last he had portioned out or engaged almost all the royal property; which giving Perdiccas an occasion to ask him what he would leave himself, he answered, "My hopes.

  • Ask him to come and stay a long while at Beechwood.

  • On the fourth morning, I happened to ask him if he had told my father what had occurred here?

  • Only to ask him how he set up in business for himself.

  • I shall have much to ask him of other things.

  • I was about to ask him more, but Harker just then came in, and he held up a warning hand.

  • I wouldn't ask him to come in at first, though I knew he wanted to, just as he had wanted all along.

  • Mariana wanted to ask him what he meant, but at that moment Solomin entered the room.

  • He wanted to ask him to intercede for us too.

  • She wanted him to go on talking about Nejdanov, but could not bring herself to ask him.

  • Uncle Alec was going to Charlottetown that day, and I, awakened at daybreak by the sounds in the kitchen beneath us, remembered that I had forgotten to ask him to bring me a certain school-book I wanted.

  • But this evening I had to ask him if he would soon have it ready, as I wanted to make up the paper.

  • She had hoped Jasper would be in his garden, since she wished to ask him for a book she greatly desired to read.

  • All the same, I think he ought to be asked, so that he wouldn't have the excuse that nobody DID ask him," declared Dan.

  • He knew Tom too well, and respected his delicacy too much, to ask him why he had taken these measures without communicating with him first.

  • Because if there is, you know,' said Jonas, 'ask him.

  • It was as much as he could do to ask him what he meant.

  • He wants a hundred kisses from the Princess,' said the lady-in-waiting who had gone down to ask him.

  • Ask him whether he will take ten kisses from my ladies-in-waiting.

  • All the shoemakers and tanners came running to ask him what he wanted for them.

  • This led me to ask him if a party resembling ours in number, and including two women, had passed that way.

  • Seeing this he became still less reticent, and spoke so largely that I presently felt myself impelled to ask him if he would answer a question.

  • At any other time I should have been the first to ask him why he had left the post which I had assigned to him.

  • Very well; be good enough to ask him if he knows why he is here.

  • I ask him whether he took the original provision out, which Trumbull alleges was in the bill.

  • If he is, ask him to discard feeling, and try if he can possibly, as a matter of judgment, count the votes necessary to elect him.

  • If he admits that he did take it, I ask him what he did it for.

  • I ask him if all this fuss was made over the editor of this newspaper.

  • It was as well he added that, for his lordship had turned with intent to ask him what he meant.

  • At last she spoke, to ask him what he meant to do.

  • We were on the point of rushing to find Pyotr Petrovitch to ask him to help.

  • It was quite useless, however, to ask him for an immediate explanation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ask for; ask her; ask you; ask your; asked about; asked for; asked her; asked him; asked himself; asked leave; asked myself; asked permission; asking himself; asking questions; asking them; circular motion; fight for; love him; mental evolution; national output; republican principles; sell the; similar position; single one; this campaign; would keep