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Example sentences for "ask you"

  • I haven't got anything to ask you to share," he went on.

  • I want to ask you, as a man and a father, to see that this young lady is warned.

  • Then you won't think wrong of me if I ask you a question?

  • Since you are here, though I did n't ask you, you might as well make yourself useful.

  • You have asked me a great many questions; there is one that in turn I have a right to ask you.

  • I shall go to Basel, but after that I don't know where, and in so comfortless an uncertainty I don't ask you to follow me.

  • I ask you again, what does it matter to you what I think of her?

  • Mother, I have something to ask you," he said.

  • I wrote down to you to ask you not to see any one till I came.

  • I didn't say I was going to ask you," retorted Grant.

  • That's what we wanted to ask you," explained Fred.

  • Maybe we'll ask you to prove that this boat is yours.

  • And I am going to ask you, John, as my guardian, closing up my affairs today, to go home with me to be present when I open the little hidden door I found at the back of a library shelf when I was disposing of Daddy's technical books.

  • So now I'll ask you to keep off while I do what I please about the library and the billiard room.

  • I won't ask you to stay tonight, because you must go through the same black waters Marian breasted, and you will want to be alone.

  • Before we leave here I want to ask you a question and I want you to make me a promise.

  • Might I ask you to take care of her until she is in the coach?

  • I ask you, because I was never touched by drink in my life before, and I don't know.

  • But I don't ask you to accept it on that account.

  • I'll tell you my story, gentlemen, and then I'll ask you as man to man what less could I do.

  • Now, Soames, I am going to ask you to have the great kindness to go up to the room of young Gilchrist, and to ask him to step down into yours.

  • Might I ask you, Watson, to open that window, and then to put a match to the edge of the straw?

  • Might I ask you all to join in the cry of 'Fire!

  • I have come to ask you about Mr. Godfrey Staunton.

  • I ask you to go first to St. Louis, in Louisiana territory, and this for two reasons.

  • And who, I ask you, is to blame for this hideous war?

  • And now I ask you whether I have acted as your friend in begging you to meet me.

  • I came here to-night to ask you to undertake a mission in behalf of myself and certain other gentlemen, and I assure you that my motives are not wholly mercenary.

  • What if I was to ask you to live apart for a while?

  • Might I ask you to do me the favour not to approach any nearer?

  • Do you know, I'm going to ask you a favour.

  • I ask you, have you ever known what it is to be an orphan, and you say "orphan".

  • I want to ask you something," she said suddenly.

  • I ask you to see Miss Fairlie to-morrow and to tell her the truth about the letter.

  • He has started some nonsensical objection to his wife being one of the witnesses, and has obliged me to ask you to join us in the library.

  • Now I ask you again--whence comes their power to lay their will upon me, and whence comes their strength to wrestle with the Shining One and the beloved of the Shining One?

  • And one thing only am I bidden to ask you--do you deliver to me the three strangers?

  • Why else did I creep through the lair of the dragon worm and pass the path of perils but to ask you that?

  • I, in return, ask you to describe in words or indicate by motion that other Line of which you speak.

  • It does seem hard to ask you for it after you bought it at the bazaar,' said Anthea; 'but it really IS our nursery carpet.

  • But I ask you to believe that they didn't do all the things on purpose which so annoyed the cook during the following week, though I daresay the things would not have happened if the cook had been a favourite.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ask you" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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