Sentence examples for takes to ask from inspiring English sources

But when she continues on long beyond the time it takes to ask us to silence our cell phones and unwrap our candy now, all the while smiling "pleasantly," it becomes clear that she, like the Messenger in "Everyman," will be our stern but civil guide into this strange, earthbound terrain.

Aiming to get the time it takes to ask for and settle a restaurant bill down from an average of ten minutes to closer to a minute, you simply scan an on-table QR code/NFC tag to first recall the bill.

I recognized the courage it takes to ask for something, especially money, and how vulnerable of an act that is.

That's not to say he makes the questioner feel stupid or inferior, but there's still a lingering notion that he could be drafting a screenplay or producing a film in the time it takes to ask him about doing those things.

What does it take to ask them to pay two dollars, three dollars more a month?

Not much, but worth the ten seconds it took to ask for it.

In view of this situation, the initiative has already been taken to ask the European Pharmacopoeia Commission to allow Ph. Eur.

Growing desperate, the reporter took to asking random people on the street if they were French.

So I took to asking the Greenlanders I met: "What is it like in the winter?

My daughter has taken to asking me whether I wouldn't rather read — or write — about puppies and kittens.

So banks have taken to asking for wild amounts, assuming they will get only a small slice.