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asking English
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What does asking mean?
asking
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Simple sentences
He sent me a letter asking if the book had reached me.
I don't like teachers who like students who don't like asking questions.
I'm fine, thanks for asking.
I'm fine, thanks for asking!
If you happen to see Mary, tell her Tom was asking after her.
I'm not asking for your help.
Tom kept asking me questions.
Tom is asking for help.
A man was asking for Tom.
Tom told Mary to stop asking silly questions.
Asking questions is the best way to learn.
Tom started asking questions as soon as he walked into the room.
Why are you asking?
She's asking how that's possible.
Stop asking me for a drink! Go get it yourself.
She's asking for the impossible.
You are still asking yourself what the meaning of life is?
Do you know what you're asking?
To do so is asking for trouble.
That's asking too much.
The islanders are asking us for help.
The painting is not worth the price you are asking.
Now stop asking questions, Pip. I'm busy.
Here is her letter asking us to take care of her only son.
It is no use asking a favor of that man.
You are asking too much for this car.
After asking for my key at the front desk, I took the elevator to my floor.
I think it's worth asking.
That guy is always asking his parents for money.
I'm asking you to do this because I trust you.
Movie subtitles
The viceroy wasn't the only one asking what was going on.
Do you find yourself asking questions about this feeling?
It's like asking how many blades of grass are there on this soccer field.
Tell them to come and bow with their sincere minds, asking her forgiveness for their badmouthing.
I'm asking who it is!
Are you asking me to hold a seance?
I'm just asking you to please respect that and leave me the hell alone.
As your patient, Dawson, I am asking.
Okay, I'm coming. Scott, I am asking you to drive carpool for one day.
But I'm just asking you one thing.
Okay, you called my aunt and asked her to bring a family heirloom to my sister's wedding without asking me?
But look, the last time I saw The Aviator, he was asking me for the keys to my Jet Ski.
She's been asking the big questions - the meaning of life, life after death, etc.
Oh, you're asking the wrong person.
I am asking you to be home with us.
Who's asking these questions?
You go for a ride in my car, and now you're asking for work?
Spoke to her, offered her gold, a lot of gold, still I felt like the beggar asking for alms.
And as all my winks, my furtive signs, my asking whether you possessed a painting or a rare sculpture to show me, as all this didn't help I had the idea.
Old Pete Rubideaux was asking about you a while ago. Pete?
I'm asking you.
Just like Vasili died for the new life, I'm asking you, to bury him according to the new ways.
What would be the good of you asking, kid?
The others are asking when the cast is coming off my arm.
Biberkopf's here asking for you.
Cilly's been asking about you.
You ain't asking me, you're telling me.
But then he sent me this note asking me to meet him, so I started to think maybe he wasn't a jerk.
You're asking me to go against my family?
I'm asking you, what's going on? It has already been announced that we're entering the third stage for war preparations.
I'm asking you what happened!
Asking me when you already know. Anyway, don't go around blabbering about it everywhere. Whatever Gong Shil does, I'm on her side.
I'm asking you to go see a movie with me after passing through it arm-in-arm.
HE'S BEEN ASKING THESE REALLY ODDLY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.
THEN YOU'RE NOT ASKING THE RIGHT PEOPLE, ARE YOU?
Scott, I am asking you to drive carpool for one day.
News and current affairs
People are asking about crimes committed by the Milosevic regime against Serbs.
Not long after the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, these liberal reformers joined with 160 other professionals to write and sign a petition to Crown Prince Abdullah asking for reforms.
Even while discussion in Washington is fixated on Iraq, a number of thoughtful foreign observers are asking these longer-term questions.
Confronted with the debacle in the rest of (Arab) Iraq, the question has to be asked why the US-led coalition should not hold a referendum in the Kurdish region, asking the population how they would like to be ruled.
The fear was that powerful banks would exploit national government help, asking for intervention too soon.
Many people have been asking why the dollar hasn't crashed yet.
The Washington Consensus starts by asking how big a budget surplus is needed in order to keep indebtedness within bounds; the higher the interest rates, the bigger the required surplus.
Regardless of how this crisis develops from this point, the UN has neglected its duties by asking a wimp to lead the inspectors who are supposed to stand up to the brute of Baghdad.
But the question everyone from Tokyo to Seoul and from Washington to Moscow is asking is this: will China act in time?
The point of asking such questions is to remind ourselves that genuine constitutional politics requires serious thought and careful preparation.
They are asking governments to cut expenditure while their economies are still vulnerable.
Asking everyone to do more than what everyone is unanimously ratifying would undermine Europe's fragile harmony.
That's the question Europe is asking about Russia, and Russia about a newly aggressive Europe.
And, in an age of pervasive anxiety, Bhutan is asking deep questions about the meaning and nature of happiness itself.
Now the world is suddenly asking whether Burma (Myanmar), after six decades of military dictatorship, has embarked on a genuine political transition that could end the country's pariah status.
I wasted no time in asking the Israeli authorities for permission to travel to Europe.
A shift to external demand is not there for the asking. It must be earned by hard work, sheer determination, and a long overdue competitive revival.
People are asking: How is it that, after World War II, the state had enough money to provide free education, whereas today's Russian state does not?
So it is not surprising that many Asian leaders are asking themselves what commitments the US will maintain once its troops leave Afghanistan.
Asking politicians to choose what shouldn't come first was the real test.
In Europe, where national economic failure once led to the collapse of democracy itself, people are now asking if it could happen again.
But he's always worth listening to, and never more so than with respect to the question that he has been asking for years: When the next nuclear-weapons catastrophe happens, as it surely will, the world will have to respond dramatically.
In February, the German authorities granted me an entrance visa. I wasted no time in asking the Israeli authorities for permission to travel to Europe.
If the only economics course you take is the typical introductory survey, or if you are a journalist asking an economist for a quick opinion on a policy issue, that is indeed what you will encounter.
As voters head to the polls on May 7, their would-be elected officials are asking them to believe three great falsehoods, each of which is dangerous in its own way.
But many Indians are asking themselves what such a policy does to India as a civilization.
Demanding that others do as one says is never as productive as asking them to do as one does.