Sentence examples for shoulder to ask from inspiring English sources

Half way there, man tapped driver on shoulder to ask how much it would cost.

He put it down and returned to work, but kept glancing over his shoulder to ask: Who were you?

So unassuming is she that a runner who has arrived with a tray of Diet Cokes taps her on the shoulder to ask where he should put them.

The film starts with the middle-aged protagonist reacting strongly when a young man sitting behind him taps his shoulder to ask him to keep his voice down while talking on the phone.

You tap him on the shoulder to ask what he's singing.

Panicked, and without thinking, Pollock tapped a fellow commuter on the shoulder to ask him to look up exactly when the next bus would arrive.

If that long arm does aim to reach out to tap Cardinal Dolan on the shoulder so as to ask a few questions, it had best reach swiftly.

"We were told no decision has been made on this important issue, even though various senators have been dismissive of her account and should have to shoulder their responsibility to ask her questions," Ford's attorneys said.

So Pacelle and Gregory, once lobbying on opposite sides on Capitol Hill, are now "walking shoulder to shoulder," office to office, to ask members of Congress to support the new rules, says Charles.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who once served as an adviser to a quantitative hedge fund, told me that his primary responsibility in that job was to "look over shoulders"—that is, to ask the smart quants in the firm equally smart questions about their models and assumptions.

Don't let it feel that you have all of this on your shoulders, its okay to ask the family for emotional and procedural assistance.