He was afraid to ask a girl to go out with him.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

"We have one project called bee-spotters, which is now restricted to Illinois, where we ask people to go out with a digital camera,even a cell phone, and photograph either bumblebees or honeybees."

VOA: special.2011.05.24

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

You should ask Jessica. I know she wants to go with you.

VOA: standard.other

"The financial cost is a totally separate matter, and I think that as we're starting to feel the economic pinches here at home as the president has to go and ask for more money for Afghanistan, we'll probably see some similar sorts of pushbacks to what we had in Vietnam."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09