Sentence examples for asked not long from inspiring English sources

Why did the West support rebels, he asked not long ago, that eat their enemies?

"Can you create athletes, or do they just happen?" Lendl asked not long ago.

President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made.

"Do you think it was my fault that she drank?" my father asked not long ago.

Asked not long ago if he had ever considered buying a country place, he looked startled and said, "What on earth would I do with one?

4. Ryan hit Obama for arguing that it was his message and not his policy that failed: President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made.

I also recalled, parenthetically, that when my father was asked, not very long before his death, what three books he considered indispensable, he named them in climactic order, concluding with "The Original of Laura" — could he have ever seriously contemplated its destruction?

The company had assumed that most customers were training to be good at specific sports; in fact for many, fitness itself was their "sport".Spending weeks with both the professional and amateur divisions of Bayern Munich football club, ReD's researchers asked not how long the studs on their boots should be, but what would determine the success of a footballer in ten years' time.

We asked not too long ago if (m)any of you had run into problems with the iPhone cracking on you and there didn't appear to be any definitive answer.

The subjects were asked not to use inhaled steroids, long-acting β2-adrenoreceptor agonists, leukotriene receptor antagonists, or mast cell stabilizers for 3 days before the challenges or short-acting β2-adrenoreceptor agonists for 6 hr before the challenges.

"I wasn't getting any statements, so I started asking not too long after the record came out," he recalled.