Example sentences of "[pers pn] do not ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | While my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) was speaking , I said that I challenged any Conservative Member of Parliament to spend just one week — I do not ask for longer — living on the money that so many of our constituents who are pensioners have to rely on — the state pension and income support . |
| 2 | I do not ask for sex right away . |
| 3 | ‘ I did not ask for the job — it was offered to me , ’ Taylor said . |
| 4 | I did not ask for the job , it was offered to me . |
| 5 | I did not ask for more money — I was in Bayreuth at the time . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It was done from my section and I am afraid I did not ask for sufficient permission . |
| 7 | Joaquim Lobato said angrily , ‘ I did not ask for that . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I did not ask for it . |
| 9 | ‘ We were not experienced enough and we did not ask for , and were not given , enough help and guidance from NatWest . ’ |
| 10 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 11 | They did not ask for time to think it over ; there was only one possible answer to such a proposition . |
| 12 | Moreover , when nineteenth-century feminists demanded equal education and employment opportunities for single women , they did not ask for any special consideration to be extended to women on account of their reproductive role . |
| 13 | It is , it has been pleaded at various points throughout paragraph three in reciting the history , that at the various meetings between Peter and Mr that no advice of this nature was given and it is the plaintiff 's case that failure to give advice of this nature , even if they did not ask for it , which they did not , was a breach of the professional duty owed to them by the defendant . |
| 14 | He did not ask for mercy ; he did not plead extenuation : he was here , he said , ‘ to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime , and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ He did not ask for any special treatment . ’ |
| 16 | He did not ask for independence and never attempted to repudiate the suzerainty of the sultan . |
| 17 | And she was promising nothing to him , either ; he knew that was what she meant , but he did not ask for anything . |
| 18 | Supposing the lessor does not want compensation , is the notice to be held bad because he does not ask for it ? |