He was afraid to ask a girl to go out with him.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

The speaker says: Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense.

VOA: special.2011.04.17

"We have one project called bee-spotters, which is now restricted to Illinois, where we ask people to go out with a digital camera,even a cell phone, and photograph either bumblebees or honeybees."

VOA: special.2011.05.24

and ask the president of the U.S. to review his scheduled deployment of troops out of Iraq?" "I do not."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10