Example sentences of "could ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Stan Hardy , the league 's new director-general , said yesterday that anybody could ask for material that may be held on them . |
| 2 | The TV provides everything we could ask for and more . |
| 3 | Then we could ask for really good singers . |
| 4 | Finally I was given the number , but not the code for Guildford , connection being broken before I could ask for it . |
| 5 | If there is someone you trust and who knows you well you could ask for their opinions on some of these questions and your answers to them . |
| 6 | I began to see that I could ask for the things I needed . |
| 7 | And few could ask for more than that . |
| 8 | A typical examination question could ask for comment on , say , how the designers of Word for Windows might have been influenced by Ventura Publisher . |
| 9 | For about a song and three-quarters they are quite exciting to watch — they 've got rhythm , they 've got lightning-fast political raps , who could ask for anything more ? |
| 10 | ‘ People in Prague could ask for anything ’ , he said , ‘ and they [ art works and cultural objects ] were never given back ’ . |
| 11 | You should enquire what the rules are and additionally , to give you a better idea of what size pension you might realistically expect , you could ask for some practical examples — say , over the last five years — of retired individuals in a similar earnings bracket to your own . |
| 12 | the Altstadt , where you 'll find all the nightlife anyone could ask for , crammed into half a square mile . |
| 13 | Who could ask for a better weapon than that ? |
| 14 | Either side , or the jury , could ask for the tape itself to be played during the trial and the judge would almost always accede ; difficulties might arise where the tape contained objectionable or inadmissible evidence , for example , references to previous convictions , but these could usually be overcome . |
| 15 | Or you or you could ask for the the number of all the conference centres in |
| 16 | ‘ The air — ’ he paused , ‘ it is after all the nectar of the district , the essence of the mountains — to eat simple food in such air with such wonders of nature to look on — who could ask for more ? ’ |
| 17 | I could ask for a trial , but I was not confident of the judges ' honesty . |
| 18 | To have important business in one 's life and such a woman to return to : that , surely , was all a man could ask for ? |
| 19 | I could ask for anything . |
| 20 | They could ask for its return . ’ |
| 21 | They had woken the Trees only so that they could ask for their help , of course . |
| 22 | By gaw , he 's a topper and ah would n't sell 'im for any money , No man could ask for a better friend . " |
| 23 | But you could ask for a special audit . |
| 24 | Everything a man could ask for . ’ |
| 25 | Dysart had been , over the years , as loyal a friend as any man could ask for . |
| 26 | If there was general agreement , he could ask for a suspension of Anglo-Irish conference meetings from next month , beginning talks before the summer recess . |
| 27 | I suggested , as a very moderate compromise , that any aggrieved applicant could ask for a review of his or her file by the incumbent Chairman of the Bar . |
| 28 | Anyway , you could ask for the prices to be faxed back to you , or even just posted . |
| 29 | To make the program more useful , it could ask for the names of the input and output files at " run time " . |
| 30 | No one could ask for more from these players . |