Sentence examples for than ask me from inspiring English sources

He'd rather undergo gum surgery than ask me to pick up the dry cleaning.

Rather than ask me straight out, she theorizes about why I object to the project and lack of process.

There were days when all I wanted was that you read a bed-time story on your own rather than ask me to tell that story the 156th time.

Rather than asking me to return, he allowed me to stay.

"He took my arm and twisted it off — yeah, he more than asked me, he kept coming at me, until finally I said yes," said Mr. Tankel, adding that he was an admirer of Mr. Markowitz.

"I went to buy myself a microKORG synthesizer and I took it up to the cashier, who was a young man, and rather than asking me what kind of music I planned to make with it, he asked me, 'Is this a gift for someone?'" says Caitlin Drinkard, of the Drinkard Sisters.

Rather than asking me to share my knowledge of industry practices that have led to steep year-after-year premium increases for thousands of employers, Rep. Blackburn instead used most of her time to read a list of business owners in her district she said had written to her complaining of recent rate increases she maintained were caused by Obamacare.

Bizarrely, and unsettlingly, the CEO and CFO, who made millions selling their company to the conglomerate but chose to stick around and run their acquired company, spent more time during the interview niggling over the fact that I went to Columbia and Harvard than asking me serious questions about how to build out a function that their company desperately needed.

The only thing less likely to get my panties in a twist than asking me for sex in your first five words is making it clear that you are a big ball of defensive, confused feelings, and you need free therapy that comes with head.

Now I'm not self-righteously proclaiming that I am definitely disciplined enough to make a different choice than he (ask me in a few decades), but I simply don't believe that whether I do or not is your problem.

Note the tone, more paternal than fraternal: You ask me an odd question.