31.  Having no particular string players in mind as collaborators, Pressler asked a friend in the NBC Symphony for advice.

32.  He asked his friend Frank Beard of ESPN.

33.  He then asked my friend for her cell number and he dialed it.

34.  How do you cope when your wife asks friends over?

35.  How, I shall ask my friends, would you like to earn your deaths?

36.  I asked a friend here in Dallas to find good land.

37.  I asked a friend, another grown-up in love, if she and her longtime companion were considering marriage.

38.  I asked my friend.

39.  I asked my friend if he thought Pelecanos would break through to the big time.

40.  I asked a few friends.