Example sentences of "ask for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a function in Bucharest the British Ambassador asked for something from home . |
| 2 | I had a fair idea as to who had done it , and I passed on my suspicions about so-and-so and so-and-so , and asked for something to be done about it . |
| 3 | Yet , surprisingly , when we asked for something else they obliged with a number of better films . |
| 4 | You think that 's especially true and like say Aberdeen if you go in a shop there and and , at least it used to be the case , and asked for something you be thought you were speaking fine but they would just say , Oh my you down from Orkney for a holiday ? |
| 5 | And even if the Host is still able to hope that the Monk will show another side to his character as a tale-teller , the Monk will not , and retreats into a sort of sulky silence after being interrupted and asked for something less serious : The Monk as a character is explicitly and repeatedly compared and contrasted with the teller who succeeds him , the Nun 's Priest . |
| 6 | So what we 're , he 's gone in asked for something . |
| 7 | You asked for something rarer lasts a bit longer . |
| 8 | The archbishop of 1101 , with a clear command which required his obedience , was a different man from the Anselm of 1097 who asked for nothing better than an opportunity for escape . |
| 9 | Being a child when the state was publicly engaged in making children healthy and literate was a support against my particular circumstances , its central benefit being that , unlike my mother , the state asked for nothing in return . |
| 10 | Mr James remembers her well , she was a sweet woman , all good nature , not a thought in her head , who asked for nothing but to love and cherish ( her husband had been spectacularly unfaithful to her , even for Rome — it runs in that family ) . |
| 11 | You asked for nothing . |
| 12 | We asked for nothing but a few gestures — |
| 13 | She seemed uncertain of her English , and asked for everything to be repeated . |
| 14 | ‘ I think you asked for everything you got , and a whole lot besides . |
| 15 | I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes . |
| 16 | Two days before the hearing , she reversed her decision and asked for him back . |
| 17 | His mother , unable to find the strength to battle against him , wrote to the school and asked for him to be excused . |
| 18 | A week later the labour master was convicted ; he was fined ten shillings and costs , although the solicitor who was defending him asked for him to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment ( in which case , an appeal could have been lodged ) . |
| 19 | I was told that the manager had gone to lunch , and when I asked for him to be bleeped I was told again that he had gone to lunch and that he had left his bleep at the switchboard — all in a tone that suggested that this was standard behaviour . |
| 20 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 21 | The Führer particularly asked for him . ’ |
| 22 | That 's why I asked for him rather than his partner who is , so I 've been told , both charming and susceptible . ’ |
| 23 | IT WAS a full year before he made the break — but eventually , on August 21 , 1984 , he went over to one of the more independent local magazines , Cauce , and asked for its leading journalist Monica Gonzalez . |
| 24 | Norsk Data A/S , yesterday asked for its listing on the Oslo bourse to be temporarily cancelled — for up to two months , although it says it hopes to reach final agreement with its major creditors this month . |
| 25 | Since the book had apparently served the purpose we asked for its return , only to be told by a shamefaced colleague : " I 'm awfully sorry but I can not remember where I put it . " |
| 26 | The drug cartels , in a letter to congressional president Luis Guillermo Giraldo Hurtado on Oct. 23 , 1989 , under their pseudonym the " Extraditables " , displayed previous knowledge of the Supreme Court 's ruling and asked for its recognition as part of a peace plan rejected by the government who reaffirmed that emergency extraditions would continue . |
| 27 | He asked for them to be clearly marked , packed in damp moss and sent to Lord Cornbury 's by Oxford Chapel , ‘ where I am to be around generally any morning before ten if you ever have time to call ’ . |
| 28 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 29 | However , discussion revealed that possible rewards were presently available to Olwyn ; all her toys , favourite TV programmes , foods and so on were given when she asked for them , irrespective of her behaviour . |
| 30 | He also distributed library books to those who asked for them — although I saw few books in the cells or barracks and it was stated that few prisoners were interested in reading . |