Example sentences of "asking [pron] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Draft a letter to my council , Nicholas , notifying them that I have already had the news of the action at Pilleth , and asking them to send out orders for the knights and squires of all the midland counties to meet me at Lichfield , fully prepared , mounted and arrayed for war , by the seventh day of July . |
| 2 | Lingfield councillor Alan Robinson has written to Darlington police asking them to step up patrols round Presto 's car park in Yarm Road after reports that youths are disturbing nearby residents by driving around it late at night . |
| 3 | My guess is though , that if , if the age difference had been something like erm , seven or eight years , by the time your mother was asking you to give up sweets for your very much younger brother , you would probably have matured sufficiently and perhaps identified enough with your mother to see yourself playing a more kind of maternal role , as , you know the grown up sister . |
| 4 | There must have been rumours of the dastardly deed at the hall as early as 1578 , for it was in that year that Sir Henry Knyvett ( another of Darrel 's antagonists ) wrote a letter to Sir John at Longleat , asking him to search out Mr Bonham and to enquire how many children his sister had and what had become of them . |
| 5 | Was this his way of asking her to take over Lotta 's place in his life ? |