1. asking
That's asking too much.
If you don't mind my asking, why did you go out yesterday?
I doubt that Tom would ever consider asking Mary to marry him.
After asking for my key at the front desk, I took the elevator to my floor.
A brewery we finance has made a new sweet sake and brought some to us asking us to try it.
I wish I could figure out how to finish this project without asking for help.
I had scarcely entered the class before the students started asking questions.
In asking voters to approve the new tax, the President appealed to reason.
Gabrielle, a striking 6'1" woman, was tired of enterprising young men asking her how the weather was up there.
How about asking her to join our trip abroad?
As I found out later, the man who showed up on my doorstep asking for help was speaking Quechua.
You are still asking yourself what the meaning of life is?
In the Netherlands, if a child is too insistent on asking for a cookie, he might be punished and get no cookie.
The atheist completely flummoxed her opponent in the debate by asking, "And who created God?"
How do you do, Mr James? "Fine, thanks for asking. Nice to meet you."