ask somebody out
ask somebody out for a date

She asked me out to the studio one night, after everyone had gone home.

None of the senior staff at the office had ever gone further than asking her out to lunch.

But what if my crazy wife asks them out to dinner?

Would she laugh at him if he asked her out to dinner and a theatre?

On the last night of his stay, he asks her out to dinner.

After school started, he asked her out to dinner and their romance began.

They talk a little and he asks her out to lunch.

When she called him back, he asked her out to dinner.

"He asked me out to dinner, and I told him not to take my acceptance to mean anything," she said.

I would call up guys and ask them out to dinner.