Questioning : inquire-37.1.2












[22 : Somebody ----s PP ]
[29 : Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE ]
[9 : Somebody ----s somebody ]
[14 : Somebody ----s somebody something ]
[20 : Somebody ----s somebody PP ]
[2 : Somebody ----s ]



NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) PP[during] (Time) INI (Topic)
NP (Addressee) V () CNI (Speaker) INI (Topic)
NP (Speaker) V () DNI (Addressee) AVP (Manner) QUO (Message)
NP (Speaker) V () DNI (Addressee) AVP (Manner) Swhether (Message)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) PP[in] (Manner) DNI (Topic)
NP (Speaker) V () DNI (Addressee) PP[in] (Internal_cause) QUO (Message)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) NP (Topic) PP[on] (Topic)
NP (Addressee) V () CNI (Speaker) AVP (Time) PP[in] (Time) PP[on] (Topic)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) PP[through] (Medium) Swhether (Message)
NP (Message) V () DNI (Addressee) DNI (Speaker)
NP (Addressee) V () NP (Message) CNI (Speaker)
NP (Addressee) V () Sinterrog (Message) CNI (Speaker)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) PP[about] (Message) PP[to] (Time)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) Sinterrog (Message) AVP (Time)
NP (Addressee) V () CNI (Speaker)
NP (Speaker) V () DNI (Addressee) AVP (Time)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) AVP (Time) PP[about] (Topic)
NP (Speaker) V () AVP (Manner) QUO (Message)
NP (Speaker) NP (Message) V () Sinterrog (Message)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Message) Sinterrog (Message)
NP (Speaker) V () QUO (Message)
NP (Speaker) V () Sfin (Message)
NP (Agent) V () whether (Topic) S ()
NP (Agent) V () PP.topic[about] (Topic) NP (Speaker) V () DNI (Addressee) PP[as] (Message)
NP (Speaker) V () DNI (Addressee) PP[about] (Topic)
NP (Speaker) V () DNI (Addressee) PP[after] (Topic)
NP (Speaker) V () DNI (Addressee) PP[of] (Topic)
NP (Speaker) V () DNI (Addressee) PPing[about] (Topic)
NP (Agent) V () PP.recipient[of] (Recipient) PP.topic[about] (Topic) what () S_INF ()
NP (Agent) V () PP.topic[about] (Topic) what () S_INF ()
NP (Agent) V () PP.recipient[of] (Recipient) how (Topic) S ()
NP (Agent) V () PP.recipient[of] (Recipient) PP.topic[about] (Topic) what () S ()
NP (Agent) V () NP (Recipient) how (Topic) S ()
NP (Agent) V () NP (Recipient) what (Topic) S ()
NP (Agent) V () PP.topic[about] (Topic) whether () S_INF ()
NP (Agent) V () NP.topic (Topic) NP (Speaker) V () DNI (Addressee) NP (Message)
NP (Speaker) V () INI (Addressee) NP (Message)
NP (Speaker) V () DNI (Addressee) NP (Topic)
NP (Agent) V () how (Topic) S_INF ()
NP (Agent) V () what (Topic) S ()
NP (Agent) V () how (Topic) S ()
NP (Agent) V () NP (Speaker) V () DNI (Addressee) DNI (Message)
NP (Speaker) V () DNI (Addressee)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Recipient) PP.topic[about] (Topic) NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) PP[for] (Message)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) INI (Topic)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) PP[about] (Topic)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) PP[on] (Topic)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) DNI (Topic)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) PP[concerning] (Topic)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) PP[in] (Topic)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) PPing[about] (Topic)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) PP[of] (Topic)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) DNI (Message)
NP (Speaker) V () NP (Addressee) PP[about] (Message)
NP (Agent) V () PP.recipient[of] (Recipient) how (Topic) S_INF ()
NP (Agent) V () NP (Recipient) PP.topic[about] (Topic) what () S ()
NP (Agent) V () PP.topic[about] (Topic) whether () S ()
NP (Agent) V () PP.recipient[of] (Recipient) PP.topic[about] (Topic) whether () S_INF ()
NP (Agent) V () NP (Recipient) whether (Topic) S_INF ()
NP (Agent) V () NP (Recipient) what (Topic) S_INF ()
NP (Agent) V () NP.recipient (Recipient)
NP (Agent) V () whether (Topic) S_INF ()
NP (Agent) V () NP (Recipient) whether (Topic) S ()
NP (Agent) V () PP.recipient[of] (Recipient) whether[about] (Topic) S ()
NP (Agent) V () what (Topic) S_INF ()


Examples from WordNet


He had to ask directions several times
Ask your teacher about trigonometry
The children asked me about their dead grandmother
I asked about their special today
He wondered who had built this beautiful church



Examples from VerbNet


I asked a question.
I asked him about it.
He asked of her about what he should do.
I asked how to do it.
He asked about what to do.
I asked.
I asked how she did it.
He asked him what to do.
He asked him about what he wanted.
I asked him what he was doing.
He asked of her about what to do.
He asked of her about whether he should visit the peasants.
He asked about whether to go.
He asked what to do.
I asked of him about whether to go.
He asked him how he came.
I asked him whether to clean the house.
He asked about whether he wanted to go.
He asked whether to clean the house.
I asked about it.
I asked him whether he was going.
He asked of her how to do it.
He asked whether he should come.
He asked of her how it works.
He asked what he should do.
I asked him.



Examples from SemCor


The reader, observing this process, might ask`` why not be different''? and find in the answer a license to be a variant of the human species.
Andrei asked.
How, I asked, could chaos be admitted to chaos?
One Republican senator told this correspondent that he was constantly being asked why he did n't attack the Kennedy administration on this score.
After his speech, reporters asked him about the report of his political intentions, published in yesterday 's New_York Times.
Besides the lack of an adequate ethical dimension to the Governor 's case, one can ask seriously whether our lead over the Russians in quality and quantity of nuclear_weapons is so slight as to make the tests absolutely necessary.
I asked Rawlins.
`` Vous voulez vos petits dejeuners tout de suite alors''? their hostess enquired.
The puzzled saleslady inquired,`` How large is your house, Madam''?
How was she to behave, Claire wondered.
Waited for more ships, more lobster-backed infantry, and asked what was to be done with a war of rebellion?
`` Work''? asked the lady.
`` What are my chances for taking Joe 's place''? he asked.
Jane asked in her placid, interested way.
According to The Chicago_Tribune_News_Service, State_Atty._Gen._Stanley_Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name:
When he was asked a question or addressed in such a way that some response was inescapable, he would answer; if, as often happened, he had to repeat because he had spoken too softly, he would repeat his words in the same way, without emphasis or impatience, only a_little louder.
Certainly, she would dare ask her father afterward.
Mrs._Pastern asked sadly, when he came_in.
Conchita wondered.
After he had gone, Kate asked Uncle_Randolph proudly,`` Would you take their oath''?
The place was evidently a familiar haunt and Claire wondered what other illicit loves had been celebrated in the comfortable rooms to which they were shown.
When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no- and there were no dissents.
Alex asked.
Last week the board, by a 4 to 3 vote, decided to ask voters whether they prefer the 6- 3- 3( junior_high_school) system or the 8- 4 system.
Gilborn wondered whether Kitti had lain in that same bed with&&& Who?
`` How many is that, Jim''? asked Willie at one stage of his excavation project.
When a witness at court was asked if he had been kicked in the ensuing rumpus, he replied,`` No, it was in the stomach''.
`` Where do you put the lighter fluid, ha, ha''? asked the gas_station man.
Fifteen years ago, troubled by the rising_tide of materialism in the post-war world, a businessman and a minister asked themselves if there might_not be a place for a small magazine in_which men and women, regardless_of creed or color, could set_forth boldly their religious convictions and bear_witness to the power of faith to solve the endless problems of living.
`` You Mr._Nelson''? he asked.
`` How do you like it''? she had asked.
A_lot_of people were still thinking_about Jack_Nicklaus, the spectacular young amateur, who had a 70; or Ken_Venturi, who had a somewhat shaky 72 but was bound_to do better; or Rosburg, whose accurate short game and supersensitive putter can overcome so many_of Augusta 's treacheries; or even old Byron_Nelson, whose excellent 71 made one wonder if he had solved the geriatric aspects of golf.
What should I do about it, I asked myself?
Another question that was asked of the assessors was whether they favored the assessment of movable property at its location or at the residence of the owner.
He was the captain, so he could ask questions like that.
I wonder if one of you gentlemen could drive me back to town?
You may ask what else there is, and the answer is nothing- nothing but empty space.
`` Who is Howard, anyway''? she asked Bobby_Joe that night.
`` Sleep well''? he asked.
There was no reason for her to ask what they did.
`` Who are you and what happened to you''? he asked.
Sir- People continue to inquire the reason for the race for outer_space.
He wondered if it wore the old anxiety, or the old, taut stoicism.
Since these electrons are moving like planets, you may wonder whether there is an atomic sun at the center of the atom.
For_example, early in my life, when one of my editorial workers wanted to find_out how churches and philanthropic organizations met the needs of New_York 's down-and-outers, he did n't just ask questions.
`` I beg to inquire if the back is now safe for travelers'', he said.
And Sam thanked her, and hoped he might meet her nephew back home, and asked her if she had any further news of the Pope.
I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke_out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.
He said he contacted a friend, Henry_Hall_Wilson, on the President 's staff and asked whether his orchestra could play, in the series.
I 'm in a room over the Golden_Club on San_Pedro, you just ask for me there, you want see me.
I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White_House, in offices of key scientists across_the_country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as`` Sherwood_Forest''.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
`` The President says'', the translator came_in,`` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast_Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question.
He wanted to ask her about Jenkins now, but he knew he could do so in Needham 's presence.
He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.
I 'd think that you, even I, would be wondering what they 're up_to.
So Linda_Kay gave_up asking, and accepted her reprieve.
And while every writer must be dealt with as a special case, the interested student will want to ask himself a number of questions about each.
`` Do you think we need a new Henry_James to re-explore the Anglo-American scene''? he asked.
The promoter who wanted to sign him up for the circus asked him how he was able to do it.
I asked her if she would, and she said she would not.
He wondered what expression, as he made that gesture, was on his face.
`` Does it ever bother you'', Warren had asked,`` to have people always asking you about your hands''?
Did she know, he asked, why the colors of the tubes were important to people 's health?
( he asked this out_loud, but no_one heard it over the other noise in the hut).
Jean_Jacques asked, striving to appear unimpressed.
It is idle to ask why we are no_longer disturbed if somebody, professing the deepest piety, decides anew that it is of no importance whether or not Christ transformed the water into wine at eleven A._M. on the third of August, A._D. 32.
So many_times I have wondered why veterinarians do not wipe the table clean before each new canine patient is placed on_it for examination.
Linda_Kay asked.
In answering these questions, we need to ask not merely whether Communist troops have crossed over into territories they did not occupy before, and not merely whether disciplined agents of the Cominform are in control of governments from which they were formerly excluded:
Judge_Parsons leaned over the bench and inquired,`` You mean some of the defendants made statements admitting this''?
Ekstrohm asked.
He asked intimate questions and got frank answers from the members of_what he calls the candidates'`` in-groups''.
Byron inquired.
** h Then he was asking himself the usual early morning questions: What the Hell am I doin here?
`` Tom'', a friend asked him once,`` you bushwhacked them rustlers?
`` Me''? she asked, turning slowly.
I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the`` commit buttons'' that could start a war- accidentally or by_design- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.
`` Are you referring, sir'', asked Helva politely,`` to the Dark_Age discussions of the number of angels who could stand on the head of a pin''?
she asked, winking wildly.
As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.
If we were asked why we thought, we should say that these things involve great evil and are wrong, and that to take delight in what is evil or wrong is plainly unfitting.
After another long pause he asked,`` How many people know who they are''?
He did even ask the cost of this collection.
He spoke through the public address box built into the cabin, and his gigantic voice roared out over the empty plain, so_that the pink herd of talking people stirred gently in their happiness and wondered what their friend B' dikkat might be wanting to tell them.
The phony producer asked her if she would like to be in one of his shows.
He smiled, and said a word or two to the interpreter, who turned_to me,`` The President wonders where you are going after you leave Taipei''?
Given a theological lead, I asked what he thinks about those who find a religious significance to his plays.
He stood watching the girl, wondering what was coming next.
Jubal deduced what had happened but did not know with whom- and did want to inquire.
Owen asked.
It then occurred to me to ask,`` Is that what that woman told you''?
She asked if I had other advice and, heady with_success, I rushed it in, I hope not too late.
`` Are you my partner''? she asked hopefully, as she recognized the Scout_Service uniform.
I do ask you who' tis you 're being unfaithful to, husband or lover.
We flew in rickety planes so overloaded that we wondered why they did crash.
`` But you want to ask me when B' dikkat is going_to come_back with the needle''.
`` I can remove the ball, can't I''? asked Palmer of an official.
The replies from each individual town are not given in detail because the questions asked the personal opinion of the several assessors and are not necessarily the established policy of the town in each case.
I said quietly, gaining nerve, ready to ask any question at_all, no_matter_how intimate, ready_to be rebuffed,`` Then why did she leave Israel?
I was just asking about it.
Such efforts almost always find themselves to ask whether Adam was created capable of growing old and_then older and_then still older, in_short, whether Adam 's life was intended to be part of the process of time.
Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.
Since he introduces so_much modern music, I could not resist asking how he felt about it.
As the detective slid it into his pocket, Rourke asked sadly,`` What in hell are you going_to do, Mike''?
We simply find ourselves in the position of having no means for inquiring into the structure and meaning of this range of our experience.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason- I cannot help looking_around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street_corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
`` Tell me- what do you do at the park''? he asked.
What hope lay_in the nephews, she asked the intensifying light out there, with one married to a barren woman and the other divorced, having sired two girl children, with none to bear_on the Packard name?
He tried to ask the Lady_Da how long they had had the drug, and_how much longer they would have to wait before they had it again.
`` You really in a hurry, Handsome''? she asked.
Helva asked, politely.
`` What have you got_on today''? she inquired.
Ludie inquired every evening, pretending that he did not care.
When asked how this was different from being a good Protestant, the boy answered,`` It 's the same thing''.
Note where the sun rises and sets, and ask which direction the prevailing_winds and storms come from.
I asked.
The debate needed no additional controversy and soon I could ask each individually what he expected from life, what his hopes were and what his fears.
`` What do you and Mickey talk_about at_home''? a reporter asked Maris recently.
Asked why, he replied primly:
She went downstairs and received another curious shock, for when Glendora flapped into the dining_room in her homemade, Sarah asked her when she had brought coffee to her room and Glendora said she had.
Visitors to the school ask what shampoo they use on the children 's hair to bring_out the sheen.
If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at_all, we should say that it made all the difference in_the_world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.
Then people wonder why Russian pupils are more advanced than American students.
She wondered what had taken_place in town, between him and his wife.
`` What is it''? asked the children, whose reflexes and replies were invariably so admirably normal and predictable.
`` What is it''? he asked.
Mike had not heard it; he had not known it until asked.
`` What 's''? she asked suddenly.
Gibby asked, not bothering to whisper.
Concerning the sentence the editor asked,`` What can Virginia do than to hang the men who have defied her laws, organized treason, and butchered her citizens''.
After_all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie; when one has inquired who it was Sue_Brown married and where it is they now live; when questions are asked and answered about families and children; and old professors; when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted; that does_it.
`` How do you know you love somebody enough to get_married''? she asked.
The inventory you acquired from me is going_to be easy to move; you can't very well sidle up to people on the street and ask if they want to buy a hot Bodhisattva.
The Vice_President had called and asked if he could see the Secretary at his home.
Jean_Jacques asked.
Moreland asked.
You wonder if he looks at his wife now and thinks_of you.
`` Since we 're having coffee with them this afternoon'', he said,`` I think I 'll ask the daughter if we can pay her to come in to clean for us''.
Moreland asked, grimly.
Some new members will hesitate to ask questions audibly.
Rudyard_Kipling 's scorn for the`` jargon'' of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wondered`` how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film''?
Rousseau asked.
Just get her where Guardino won n't see her and start asking questions''.
The Providence_Sunday_Journal article( Jan. 29) asking whether American taxpayers are being victimized by a gigantic giveaway to pay for the care of war veterans who have non-service-connected disabilities sounds as though The Providence_Journal is desperate for news.
he asked Leona.
`` See that guy''? the operator asked pityingly.
`` Who was that''? he asked.
Did you ask him about the whisky''?
Wilson inquired about it.
Shayne asked, peering ahead at the partially obscured street_sign.
I asked, looking at her searchingly.
No one asks questions about the free union of the sexes in West_Venice so_long as the partners share the negative attitudes of the group.
You remember the words of President_Kennedy a week or_so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean_Rusk was in Europe, and Vice_President Johnson was in Asia,`` Who is_running the store''? and he said`` The Same fellow who has been_running it, Sam_Rayburn''.
Richardson wondered when it would be unloaded.
One subject spontaneously asked( after her arm had finally risen),`` Do you suppose I was unconsciously keeping it down before''?
Felix asked.
Everywhere I went in Formosa I asked the same question.
`` I asked her why she could do it tomorrow, but it seems the muse is working good tonight and she 's afraid to let_it_go''.
`` Do n't ask me if I think the cannery helps'', he said.
`` What is the point'', Charles_Adams reports the Pakistanis as asking,`` in demanding an Islamic state and society if no one, not even the doctors of the sacred law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what the nature of such a state and society is''?
The school has received letters from parents asking,`` What happened to Johnny?
`` What brings you here again, Colonel_Marsh''? she asked, taking him and Juanita into the parlor where the shutters were closed against the afternoon sun.
Squeezing a look between Johnson 's fat jowls and the car frame a handsome and still darkhaired lady inquired`` Y_'_all_drahve''?
`` What kind_of car is it''? he asked gloomily.
If the would-be joiner asks these questions he is not likely to be duped by extremists who are seeking to capitalize on the confusions and the patriotic apprehensions of Americans in a troubled time.
Finally, at Ye_Olde_Gasse Filling_Station on Avocado_Avenue, they learned that their man, having paused to get oil for his car, had asked about the route to San_Diego.
Timothy_Rourke gulped down the whiskey hastily and joined him, asking,`` Who are we going_to call on in the Northeast section''?
Barton waited for a long moment, then asked the question which lay always uppermost in his mind.
A fresh crop of beginners' guns showed_up in 1961, and they 're good bets for your Christmas_gift list if you 're wondering what to get for a youngster.
`` What happens when there 's no more water''? she asked smolderingly.
For_example, suppose a man wearing a$ 200 watch, driving a 1959 Rolls_Royce, stops to ask a man on the sidewalk,`` What time is it''?
There is a pause in the merriment as your friends gaze at you, wondering why you are staring, open-mouthed in amazement.
U._S._Attorney_Macon_Weaver said the federal complaint, charged that the juror gave false information when asked about Ku_Klux_Klan membership during selection of jury.
Bake asked.
And so, still wondering and a_little perplexed, he grinned at the girl and spoke lightly to make_sure that she would know he was kidding.
Recently, by_the_way, I received a questionnaire in which I was asked whether or not I was institutionalized''.
Ask Mr._Keo''.
The question might be asked:`` Do n't the managements of the heavy-electrical-goods manufacturers know these facts?
Harold indicated the photograph on the wall and asked what church the stone sculpture was in.
Mercer wondered how long the super-condamine had lasted him.
How could it have been thirty years already, she wondered?
My husband enters the motel office, signs_up for a room, and them solemnly asks the proprieter if he accepts pets.
Kate asked, uneasy at the gravity of the girl 's dilemma.
I was asked.
But there is a dignity and even a hint of the inspired prophet in his words to one correspondent:`` You ask what I am going_to' reply' to Bradley.
Holmes was asked if he had ever visited a house_of_prostitution, or a`` beatnik parlor or teahouse''.
I would ask,`` Why not do both''?
Once Peter asked,`` How oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?
`` You do''? he asked, between wheezes of laughter.
Mose asked softly.
`` I think I 'll sleep_in this morning'', she said drowsily, and as she snuggled against him, he wondered if she ever went_to church.
I wonder if anyone ever bothered to make the point that when it comes_to boats and their motors, Americans excel over any country in the world in_the_long_run.
Eventually such incidents became more sporadic, and more sharply demarcated from her day-after-day behavior, and in one particular session, after several minutes of such behavior- which, as_usual, went_on without any accompanying words from her- she asked, eagerly,`` Did you see Granny''?
After a_few tortuous moments of wondering who`` he'' is, the camera pans across the room to the plaster statue, and we realize that Neitzbohr is trying to redeem himself in_the_eyes_of a mute piece of sculpture.
I wonder if the Carters would take one.
He had already become used_to Hesperus' snapping back answers to questions almost before Jack could get them asked.
Her hesitation was only momentary and she hoped he did n't notice it, as she settled herself, asked quickly how Miss_Jenny and the babies were getting_on.
He remembered Clayton 's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.
At that moment, Holden almost slammed on the brakes to go_back to Cooper and ask if Ferguson was about.
He thought a moment, then inquired,`` You mean petted''?
`` Is this the type of citizen you desire''? the Trial should have asked the nations.
Signora_Ferraro, bobbing her head encouragingly, asked Sam about Canada, having a special interest.
She wondered whether Stanley would call.
When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing_point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.
The teacher thought it was so successful that she asks:`` Would n't it be helpful to all age_groups if they could participate in a similar confessional of their fears and worries''?
At a party an English intellectual- so-called- asked me why I write always about distress.
Only the memory of previous hurt, bewilderment and perplexity made him sure that if he did not ask B' dikkat when he, Mercer, was happy, the answer would no_longer be available when he needed it.
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for?
You wonder about the Christmas_card with no name on it, and it comes_to you that maybe it would have been better to have made somebody happy if you could be happy yourself, to give somebody the one they wanted- to give them you.
John asked tiredly.
`` Who was that, young feller''? the doctor instantly asked.
`` What 's a' scene'''? asked Mercer.
And you wonder if that is why the little man lost his job and his car and stayed drunk about a year before he straightened_out and moved to St._Louis, where he got to be a big unhappy success.
`` Did anyone see my cab''? he asked, keeping his voice casual.
`` Are your people still alive''? he asked, trying to touch a part of her life Alberto had discussed; so he could have something of her for himself.
Ryan asked.
I asked him if he took seeds from his own plants.
After_all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie; when one has inquired who it was Sue_Brown married and where it is they now live; when questions are asked and answered about families and children; and old professors; when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted; that does_it.
We must ask ourselves which of the two alternatives will help the commuter- the two-way B. +_O._-_C._+ O. merger, or the three_way New_York_Central B._+_O._-_C._+_O. merger.
One night there were some dried peas lying on our kitchen_table, and these peas looked to me like a_little group of atoms; and I asked myself a question: Suppose I had the same number of peas as there are atoms in my body, how large an area would they cover?
Barbara asked, as they heard the front_door close.
An out-of-town writer came_up_to Paul_Richards today and asked the Oriole manager if he thought his ball_club would be improved this year.
Mr._Dwyer said that although it was obvious that Mr._Rayburn was not well he stopped, gave the youngster his autograph, asked where he was from and expressed the hope that he would enjoy his visit to Congress.
I sought_out the gardener and asked him what he did to produce such beauties in that weather.
As I say, I would want to begin a day like this, but I often wonder what the dead would have done.
It was the oldest and toughest question young lovers have ever asked: How can you be sure?
But ask coach Darrell_Royal what position he plays and you 'll get the quick response,`` place_kicker''.
Mark asked, and Abel lifted his eyes from the double lines in the middle of the road, the twin white ribbons which the car swallowed rapidly as it ascended the crest of the hill and came_down.
When the therapist came to feel on sufficiently sure ground with him to ask him,`` What is that, Bill- hello or farewell''?
After a pause, during which he studied Scotty 's face as if Scotty were not there and could not study him too, Mr._McKinley would ask the same questions he had asked downstairs.
He questioned God 's taking time to telegraph the message, but he felt better about Kizzie, and he took the sealed envelope from its pigeonhole, wondering why he had preserved it.
`` At what university did you study''? he asks.
The mother inquired,`` Where 's Johnny, and why did you leave him''?
Where was Mr._Flannagan, he wondered.
He wondered whether Needham was going_to swear_off gambling and get a steady job or whether he was counting_on the income from Betty 's estate to subsidize him.
If asked how she gets her impressions, she probably can only say that she`` just gets them''- some more vividly than others.
`` Have they inherited some money or something''? she asked with a reportorial gleam in her eye.
`` We ask the people what they want, and they supply the labor.
Asked which institution most needs correction, I would say the corporation as it exists in America today.
Their father, when he came_back from those many business trips, just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox.
`` And who is this''? he asked, when she passed him a glass.
I asked, taking a final gulp of my drink, and handing him the empty glass.
was a question that had to be asked long before they saw Paree.
He asked if there was anything he could do.
he wondered.
He wondered how anyone could have the good_luck to visit a planet as nice as this.
Frankie asked.
He smiled also at a British bloke seated next to me, who asked the_most asinine questions.
Then Wilson asked,`` What about this Kent_House which you mention?
she asked him, seeing Juanita 's eyes grow bleak.
If one asks about this play, what it is that comes_upon this community and works within it with such terrible power, there is no better answer to give than`` spirit''.
Madden inquired next about the audit of the scholarship fund.
I asked Quasimodo recently how he accomplished this, and he replied that he had painted his model`` a beautiful shade of red and_then had her breathe on the canvas'', which was his typical tongue-in-cheek way of chiding me for my lack of sensitivity.
To begin the interview, he asked if Thayer, with more time to think it over, could add to what he had said the other day about Johnston.
Jess asked worriedly.
Finally he asked,`` Do you object to petting''?
Barbara asked, standing in the doorway.
If anyone had asked her, she would have described herself only as nervous and worried.
He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad_luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take_off on a combat_mission.
You identify yourself and ask him what 's going_on.
He did not explain where he was going, and they did not ask.
He wondered how long it would be before they had a signed confession from Lionel_Black.
We all know what the dummies will do``- he gestured at the hummocks in_which the decorticated men were cradled-'' and we all know what the new people will ask.
Kate asked, watching them both now anxiously.
Soon after the method changed, visitors began asking how he managed to irrigate his soil to keep it looking moist, when in_reality, it was the soil treatment alone that accomplished this.
he asked.
When that monk came_down and approached him with a respectful salutation, he asked:
`` Do you mean''- he asked almost shyly-`` you want me to go_with you, wherever you 're goin''?
He stepped into the dugout, wondering why Deegan was always looking_for trouble.
He thought_of other possibilities, none of them satisfactory, and finally he began to think, to wonder if there was some way he could reach Burton.
Upon arriving_at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John_Quincy_Adams, Secretary_of_State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with`` Missouri and Illinois_Territories''.
If he wanted to know anything, he would end_up asking about it point-blank, but in this guileless manner he would probably receive more truthful answers than if he tried to get them by indirection.
`` What is this''? she asked, turning suddenly.
`` Do you feel you can stand_up to the next legislative session and defend this contract''? asked Mrs._Grace_O._Peck, representative from Multnomah_County, of the commission chairman, Joseph_E._Harvey_Jr..
`` How did you get_by the desk''? he asked curiously.
`` That smell is something, eh, mate''? the Australian asked.
I asked about the battle between life and death in his plays.
`` Is it anything like oatmeal''? asked one of the children.