If a friend keeps asking you to do something you do not want to do, you might ask him to leave you alone or "stop bugging me."

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Believe me,Giovanni, I did not ask him to do this to you.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

"We are able to have them interact with American students, but then also ask them any sort of simple questions that you may ask another person: 'What do you like to do for fun?

VOA: special.2010.05.27

King Abdullah is also expected to ask the United States to do more to resolve the Palestinian situation.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

He didn't do anything. He called some friends to ask for help in finding them some tents."

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

The man's got to do what I ask him to do and he's got to do it now. That don't go over very well.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

And we think, having pieced it together, that it was this guy Madni, but we do not know, so the piece of litigation that we are bringing is to ask the government to tell us who it was,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

"Obviously we are all here because we love Ray Harryhausen's work so I said before we do this I'd love to talk to him about it and ask if there was anything he didn't do in the original one that he would have always loved to do."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

"If senators refuse to debate about a profound crisis affecting every single citizen, the nation must ask 'What do you fear?' ,'And whose voice do you speak and whose interest do you vote?" Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky disagreed, saying the bill will make soaring health care costs go even higher, and place a greater burden on average Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23