Example sentences of "asking for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pascoe looked at her , asking for the proof . |
| 2 | He considered asking for the feather back but knew the request would sound foolish . |
| 3 | This technique involves asking for the order in such a way that if the timing is premature the presentation can continue with the minimum of interruption . |
| 4 | You 're not asking for the order , let's do some training on that . |
| 5 | The Benefit was an unqualified success , which was the main thing , but asking for the support of hundreds of strangers inevitably meant that the focus of their concern would be on John as well as on the terrible thing that was happening to him . |
| 6 | By asking for the supplier 's commitment at this early stage , Pearl wanted a quality assurance check and formal assurance that it had realistic expectations . |
| 7 | Board demands : Trustees representing the interests of the Ferranti family have written to chairman Sir Derek Alun-Jones asking for the board to be replaced or supplemented by new directors . |
| 8 | Trustees representing substantial family interests have written to Sir Derek asking for the board to be replaced or supplemented by new directors . |
| 9 | Trustees representing substantial Ferranti family interests wrote to Sir Derek asking for the board to be replaced or supplemented by new directors . |
| 10 | Asking for the bloke who used to live at the house . |
| 11 | In May this year the Registration Officer , who is the person responsible for collecting Poll Tax , will send out a form to every household asking for the name , address and date of birth of everyone who will be 18 or over by 1st April 1991 ( that is , everyone who will be 17 or over when Poll Tax is introduced ) . |
| 12 | Erm for instance if he 's asking for the child to go to live with him and you oppose that then then court would make a decision as to where the child s should live . |
| 13 | The presbytery also instructed their clerk to write to the Prime Minister , John Major , the Secretary of State for Scotland , Ian Lang , the local Member of Parliament , Jim Wallace , and the Member of the European Parliament , Winnie Ewing , asking for the law concerning child abuse to be reviewed as a matter of urgency . |
| 14 | Yeah , I know it puts more work back on the people asking for the money , but if , if that went ahead , and they it up , and the whole lot came down . |
| 15 | Rallies in Vlore on Sept. 2 and in Shkoder on Sept. 13 were organized by the DP in alliance with the other parties , and on Sept. 7 supporters of the three parties protested outside the Tirana headquarters of Albania Radio-TV , asking for the dismissal of " leading cadres " and an end to " Stalinist censorship " of news reports . |
| 16 | And he was previously in , in prison for del for handing out leaflets , er asking for the Independence or the separation of his bit of Serbia was n't he , from , from the , from the rest . |
| 17 | Erm there are other cases where there is addit er existing land in office or industrial use owned by National Power where the owner is now asking for the land to be con taken out of industrial use and er transferred to housing . |
| 18 | While Chapman 's team first reached the top of the table , in October 1923 , a petition was sent to the FA asking for the ban on his former colleagues at Leeds City to be lifted . |
| 19 | When you are connected , be clear and confident in your manner when you are asking for the person you want to speak to and in announcing yourself : ‘ Good afternoon , this is Kate Farmer from Witcombe & Co . |
| 20 | A letter from the Leader of the Country Dance classes asking for the return of the music centre . |
| 21 | Well that 's erm tt nothing I can do about that until asking for the Mirror itself . |
| 22 | Similar to Bills of Exchange , it is possible to either roll over the debt by replacing a Note with another of longer tenor , or by asking for the payee 's consent to the extension of the maturity date . |
| 23 | For Pound undoubtedly made the poem more obscure by asking for the excision of some transitional and bridging passages where the language was not at full pressure , but on the other hand he caused to be removed some extended sections which , being plainly extraneous , could only have added to readers ' bafflement . |
| 24 | That is not being disingenuous : that is asking for the kind of conduct that used to be normal on both sides of the House . |
| 25 | In the year 2025 , people will be asking for the look of 1992 ! . ’ |
| 26 | For example , women in the Labour Party made sure that resolutions asking for the provision of birth control information via local authority clinics came before the Party 's Annual Conference in 1925 , 1926 and 1927 . |
| 27 | Firstly , they could send requests to Paris asking for the abolition or limitation of the judicial control of the Parlement in Paris over the duchy 's courts . |
| 28 | you 're asking for the comprehension of the word . |
| 29 | What we do need is the co-operation of the residents , and I must say that we are beginning to get the co-operation now and in fact many people did phone in after the last incident when the officers were assaulted , first of all asking for the condition of the officers and showing concern , and secondly giving us information . |
| 30 | She continued the service in the well-known words , asking for the baby to be protected against the world and against wickedness . |