I want to ask these voters to step back and consider for a moment.

But they are not happy at being asked to step aside.

"I must ask you to step into the search room."

The woman asked him to step outside with her for some air.

"May I ask you to step inside just a moment?"

I have to ask you to step away from the school.

Instead, he would have been asked to step into a room.

But, just before his interview, the board asked him to step outside.

I don't know if these things actually happened, but we were asked to step in immediately.

Last spring, he said, the town asked the state environmental agency to step in.