Example sentences of "[conj] asked for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The allocation runs counter to the recommendations of a report last year that asked for greater spending on universities ( see Nature 356 , 9 : 1992 ) . |
| 2 | James went to the local police superintendent , one Smith , and asked for 100 police to be billeted on the colliery premises , as , otherwise , the safety men , who were frightened , would not come to work . |
| 3 | and somebody said it was because since the stockmarket flopped people drew out and put the money in building societies , building societies were bursting at the seams , did n't want to , and banks as well , did n't know what to do with all this money , so , somebody went in for a loan and asked for fifty thousand and come out with a hundred thousand , they could n't get it out , give it to people , a lot , a lot of people that really er were n't safe gambles |
| 4 | Pearson , of Tadcaster , admitted three arson charges and asked for eight others to be considered . |
| 5 | Youds was ordered to pay £100 per unit and £30 costs and asked for eight weeks to pay the £630 sum . |
| 6 | She admitted four charges of making a false representation to obtain benefit and asked for 18 others to be taken into consideration . |
| 7 | McCabe , of Millbrook Avenue , Brambles Farm , Middlesbrough , admitted three offences of theft and asked for six offences to be taken into consideration . |
| 8 | Then he rang some film company in London and asked for one of the most junior men in the public-relations office , and the girl could hear the phone being put down on him . |
| 9 | He admitted eight robberies between May and July and asked for two others and six attempted robberies to be taken into consideration . |
| 10 | What is certain is that on the bright and sunny morning of 4 June 1913 the forty-year-old Emily Davison called at the offices of the WSPU in London and asked for two of the union 's white , green and purple flags . |
| 11 | At the Old Bailey yesterday Everton , of Edmonton , north London , admitted three robberies and related firearms charges and asked for two attempted robberies to be considered . |
| 12 | The Queen was particularly delighted with these models and asked for two dozen to be sent to Buckingham Palace . |
| 13 | ‘ On my way down I sent a message to the sheriff 's office at the Guildhall and asked for two cursitors to make diligent inquiries amongst the taverns and stews along this side of the river . |
| 14 | Christopher Appleton , 18 , of Highmoor Road , Darlington , admitted burglary and asked for two offences to be considered . |
| 15 | Anthony Killen , 28 , of no fixed address , admitted burglary , receving stolen goods and asked for two burglaries to be taken into consideration . |
| 16 | The youth , who can not be named for legal reasons , admitted three charges of criminal damage between November 1 , 1992 and February 28 this year and asked for four similar offences to be considered . |
| 17 | He admitted going equipped for theft , another burglary and asked for four similar offences to be taken into consideration . |
| 18 | Facts : pleaded guilty to six counts of theft , burglary and obtaining by deception , and asked for 14 similar offences to be considered . |
| 19 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 20 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 21 | I used to go to Orkney for to go and asked for some cardboard boxes only we call them pasteboard boxes . |
| 22 | Robert Wilkinson 25 , of Thornton Street , Hartlepool admitted two charges of deception and asked for 40 more involving bouncing cheques worth £4,000 and committed all over Cleveland and Durham to be taken into consideration . |
| 23 | This time Marko believed the mysterious child ; he went to the king and asked for three hundred barrels of wine and three hundred barrels of brandy , and for oxen to drag them up the mountain and men to dam up the lake . |
| 24 | Richardson , 22 , of Clevedon , Avon , admitted 33 fraud charges and asked for 48 others to be considered by Gloucester Crown Court . |
| 25 | They were fined £1,000 with £365 costs — and asked for 28 days to pay . |
| 26 | Leonard could be depressive along with many other poets ( the psycho-endocrinological critique of poetry has yet to be written ! ) ; he could also be uplifting and assertive ; he could , indeed , write ‘ about something ’ to use Faulkner 's phrase from The Bear , and did so to the advantage of large numbers of people who gladly read , and asked for more . |
| 27 | She expressed a warm opinion of the piece and asked for more of her work . |
| 28 | I accepted that but , having in mind Sweden 's small population and great resources of iron and timber , thought it an untypical sort of country , and asked for another . |
| 29 | When he received a Mickey Mouse , he swelled triumphantly , and asked for another . |
| 30 | On May 13th , after days of heavy selling by the markets — and heavy buying by Spain 's central bank — the government suspended its obligation to defend the peseta , and asked for another realignment of the system . |