Example sentences of "ask she for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he was still hungry , he decided against asking her for second helpings now that he had forgotten to use her new name at the very first test . |
| 2 | But she was gone before I could finish asking her for help , borne away by three identically dressed musketeers , waving her whip in the air , and lost in the crowds again . |
| 3 | Confuse a waitress by asking her for a Big Mac and chips ? |
| 4 | A man in rags asked her for the price of a cup of tea . |
| 5 | Her mother so seldom asked her for anything , she realised with a jolt . |
| 6 | My old gran did n't bother with recipes and if anybody asked her for one she 'd say ‘ Oh , I do n't bother wi' them things . |
| 7 | Félicie waited with him for news of the birth , and during the anxious time Modi asked her for advice , knowing that Jeanne was too preoccupied in looking after him and coping with her mother 's often unhelpful interference to look after a new baby alone . |
| 8 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 9 | He then asked her for another £46,500 , claiming he needed the money to secure the bonds , and paid that , too , into his account . |
| 10 | They asked her for ‘ pen portraits ’ of the seven children who were pupils at the school . |
| 11 | Just as Debbie was about to wind up the window , he suddenly asked her for a lift , saying he only lived 5 minutes down the road and could she drop him on her way ? |
| 12 | When he failed to persuade her to cancel it , he asked her for a date — and romance blossomed . |
| 13 | She even asked her for them ; she asked her what she thought she should do . |
| 14 | Leo asked her for the second time . |
| 15 | I asked her for help — I wanted to go back to Scotland ! |
| 16 | Kit knelt in front of Ariel and cried ; he asked her for forgiveness . |
| 17 | After her marriage Signor Cantoni 's mother had seemed unable to bear a child so she took a large bunch of carnations to the Madonna and asked her for the gift of a baby . |
| 18 | At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship . |
| 19 | I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis . |
| 20 | ‘ What 's — the matter this morning ? ’ she said , in the voice she had used when he asked her for an off-games note . |
| 21 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 22 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
| 23 | With an effort she walked across the room to Jerry , who had so often asked her for a date and who , given any encouragement , would have been a frequent visitor to Blue Ash Farm . |
| 24 | She rose , tripping round the table as if Benjamin had asked her for a dance . |
| 25 | He had never asked her for her heart . |
| 26 | His technique was to go up to one at a literary party and ask her for a cigarette . |
| 27 | ‘ What will people think when those children ask her for an improper story ! ’ |
| 28 | Would you like to go to grandma and ask her for a cloth ? |
| 29 | Ask her for it I am , she 's alright , she 's |
| 30 | Get your feet off your ask her for it then ! |