Can I ask you a question?

Can I ask you something?

I'd like to make you a proposal.

You shouldn't listen to him.

You shouldn't listen to her.

May I ask you some more questions?

I tried to ask her a riddle.

May I ask you an indiscreet question?

I'd like to ask you some questions now.

What can we do to the mosquito?

Iraq fared no better with the British and Americans.

So can they expect any thing but what befell the earlier people?

Wait they, then, but the dispensation of the ancients?

Then, can they expect anything (else), but the Sunnah (way of dealing) of the peoples of old?

Do they expect anything but the precedent of the ancients?

Are they waiting, then, for anything except what happened to the nations before them?

Then, can they expect aught save the treatment of the folk of old?

So do they await anything except the precedent of the ancients?

Do they look except for the ways of former nations?

Then do they await except the way of the former peoples?

Do they expect anything other than (God's) tradition (torment) with those who lived before.

Then should they wait for aught except the way of the former people?

Are they but looking for the way the previous peoples sinners were dealt with?

Now are they but looking for the way the ancients were dealt with?

I want to get even with him for the insult.

I don't want to hurt anyone.

I need to let Tom know.

I couldn't do that to Tom.

When they despaired of moving him, they conferred privily apart.

Then when they despaired of him they counselled together privately.

So, when they despaired of him, they held a conference in private.

And when they despaired of him, they conferred privately.

Then, when they had despaired of Joseph they went to a corner and counselled together.

So, When they despaired of (moving) him, they conferred together apart.

When they had despaired of moving him, they withdrew to confer privately.

When they despaired of him, they went in private to confer together.

So when they had despaired of him, they secluded themselves in private consultation.

When they lost all hope (of convincing the Prince), they moved into a corner whispering to each other.

Then when they despaired of him, they retired, conferring privately together.

When they had lost all hope of persuading him, they withdrew, conferring among themselves.

Now when they saw no hope of his (yielding), they held a conference in private.

I could not convince him of his mistake.

It is impossible to get him to understand the new theory.

You may ask a question of that teacher.

It is next to impossible to make him stop smoking.