"A few years later the minister of culture asked me to make it a project for the state."

The Japanese said the prime minister never asked to do so.

At the meeting on Monday, the ministers must ask themselves what we can do.

When the minister asked, "Who gives these people to be married?"

The minister asked for help, but the police said they were stretched too thin.

During my own recent ceremony the minister accidentally asked, "Do you take this man to be your first husband?"

It was supposed to end six months ago, but the prime minister asked me to stay on.

One day the minister asked, "Captain, isn't the boy attending school any more?"

The minister asked for expert advice and the debate continued in the newspapers.

The prime minister may ask the governor general to call elections sooner, however.