His wife finally ascertains the young lady's name by asking somebody.
After she leaves, and Mamie ascertains that all five dogs were hanged, she is relieved and begins to dance.
It is a non-invasive screening test which ascertains the likelihood that a foetus will turn out to have Down's syndrome.
What method of vote-counting best ascertains the will of the voter as each one expressed it in the voting booth?
Clinton ascertains that Butters is persisting in his pickle-pressing because he's sad that he got dumped, and gives a speech.
Robert Lowell and Mark Rothko establish their cultural credentials by recognizing her literary pedigree: she quickly ascertains that both "knew the works of my grandfather".
A brief exchange with the Guardian's interpreter ascertains that he actually means "sinks", by which he means washing-up jobs, and menial work in general.
The buyer's (or issuing) bank ascertains whether or not this has been done by obtaining the cooperation of a bank in the seller's country.
First he ascertains how far off the compass is; next he tracks down sources of distortion, most of which can be taken care of by a built-in compensator.
Ratchett is discovered dead, unmourned, and Poirot ascertains that the solution to the crime must lie within a single locked carriage, which, like a mobile country house, contains first-class passengers and a sprinkling of the lower orders.
He ascertains that Justin doesn't adequately appreciate her — A. has access to the memories of whichever body he's borrowing — and that she deserves ardor on a much grander scale.
