21.   Someone asked me over the weekend why the story was such a big deal when ordinary kids regularly smash themselves up drinking and driving.

22.   So, did Mme. Ambassador ask me over?

23.   The woman asked over the phone.

24.   Twyla Tharp asked over a bitter cup of coffee.

25.   Van asks over the chicken, steak, chili and salad.

26.   When I moved to Manhattan three years ago, I wondered why, when people asked you over for dinner, it was at the neighborhood bistro.

27.   But laymen in the wider public will ask the same question my mother asked me over the phone.

28.   He said mortar shells were fired in southern Lebanon and Israeli soldiers at the Lebanon-Israel border were asked over loudspeakers to go into shelters.

29.   He said mortar shells were fired in southern Lebanon and Israeli soldiers at a Lebanon-Israel border post were asked over loudspeakers to go into shelters.

30.   Not only did he call on the telephone, she said, but he also asked her over to the Elysee Palace, the French presidential residence.