He asked a clerk who on earth he expected to sell those things to.

I asked a clerk, whose occupation seemed to consist in piling sovereigns one upon another.

She asked a clerk for advice.

I went into a drug store and asked a clerk that I know what was the best thing for toothache.

Josiah asked a clerk.

Seated at his desk, he asked a clerk to go to the vault and bring him his certificates of bank stock.

Here the boys drew up at a most uninviting native inn and asked a clerk who claimed to speak English for an interpreter.

They asked a clerk in the store's furniture department, which adjoins its restaurant, if they might sit on a couple of davenports on display.

The New Yorker, October 18, 1947 P. 30 A lady went into a bookstore and asked a clerk about books on art.

"Suppose the injunction is sustained?" asked a clerk in a whisper.

"What is your name?" asked a clerk.