Sentence examples for ask the tower from inspiring English sources

He enjoys the reaction of air traffic controllers when he calls to ask for clearance to use an airport: "You ask the tower, 'Can I drive down your runway really fast and take off?' " When he and his wife lived in Florida several years ago, they often flew the Aerocar from Daytona Beach to Orlando.

Make sure to ask the tower about this if you are in doubt.

"Which runway would you like at Teterboro?" asks the tower at LaGuardia.

"Can I get him in for Runway One?" the controller at La Guardia asks the tower at Teterboro.

I even heard an approaching pilot on the radio asking the tower for directions to the museum.

"You're from Durham?" she was heard asking the towering Mr. Talley.

Ask the Petronas Twin Towers (at 1,483 feet, the world's tallest buildings for six years, until the Taipei 101 tower went to 1,671 feet in 2004).

In a radio transmission from the Saudi airliner monitored by officials in Israel and then broadcast over radio and television in the region, the pilot is heard asking the control tower at Larnaca, Cyprus, to notify Syrian airport officials that the plane was on its way.

3. Ryerson University Library, Toronto Proving that democracy can also be brutal (just ask the Iraqis), this 11-storey tower looks more like a second world war fortification than a temple of learning.

I went for a stroll around the Eiffel tower to ask the tourists if they'd had any trouble finding it.

The Fisher real estate family, which owns the tower, asked the company to decide by June 15.