Sentence examples for had planned to ask from inspiring English sources

She had planned to ask him to do it, all through supper, but his strange, sombre attitude had prevented her.

Mr. Fehlbaum had planned to ask him to design the rest of the site, until he met by chance with the then-obscure North American architect Frank Gehry.

This year, Goldthwait says he had planned to ask: "What else could happen to me?" But instead, he asked for "more pain".

Given the urgency, the Pentagon had planned to ask the winner to team up with one of the losing bidders to build the trucks more quickly.

Mr. Warren, who is going to the annual meeting in Omaha, said he eliminated "six or seven questions" he had planned to ask Mr. Buffett "because of the report".

Mr. Leahy, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, which would have conducted Mr. Clovis's nomination hearing, said he had planned to ask Mr. Clovis about Mr. Papadopoulos's efforts to obtain stolen Democratic emails from the Russians.

Even that request was watered down from the one Cameron had planned to introduce asking for immediate authorization of a strike on Damascus.

Maybe she had planned to coax his mother into asking for his help.

Mr. Romuzga's client had planned to pull out at $307,000 but asked him to keep bidding as Ms. Mullavey sailed on.

To give you some background, I had initially planned to ask Malala whether or not she was a feminist but then researched to see whether she had used this word to describe herself.

President Mwai Kibaki had originally planned to ask the men to step down for the duration of the case.