Example sentences of "[vb base] ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you like your job but ca n't get on with the people with whom you have to work , consider asking for a transfer to another department . |
| 2 | This can be especially true if you are a woman who is unused to making sexual demands , or if you are already in a long-term relationship when you begin to ask for safer sex . |
| 3 | But I do get quite a few people phone me as you know asking for information . |
| 4 | No there was a lady came round the other day , you know asking for erm volunteers to erm tape , you know , recording conversations between people and yourselves and the family , you know ? |
| 5 | Yeah the the the amount of phone calls we get asking for P C , for P C , for P C , for P C , er for P C is quite incredible . |
| 6 | I always remember asking for Lawrence In Arabia , as a Sunday School prize . |
| 7 | That sort of thing you get asked for so much |
| 8 | I give these bibliographical details because from time to time I get asked for them by collectors and booksellers . |
| 9 | You get to ask for shells and in my wee toilet and I do n't |
| 10 | Should you be pleb enough to require chips with breakfast , remember to ask for fries . |
| 11 | What you do n't ask for you do n't get : always remember to ask for what you want . |
| 12 | Always remember to ask for identification from any caller before you open the door . |
| 13 | You 're really getting through a terrific amount of stuff and you keep asking for more it 's great . |
| 14 | ‘ If you keep asking for things you 'll be too expensive to keep — we 'll all just starve to death or you 'll have to be sent away to a Home where they 'll lock you up . |
| 15 | As museums keep asking for more public money , should they not heed public opinion , which is that works of art exist to be seen and should not be stashed away in cellars but should be got up and out and on view ? |
| 16 | And there 'll be a lot of families in the middle , where they 're not sure whether they fall in one category or the other , but they dislike having to take their cap in hand and go ask for another subsidy . |
| 17 | You 're always gon na have objections , I think you 've seen so far , throughout the whole sales process , some are more awkward than others but you got by them but the majority will come when you ask for the business , or go to ask for the business . |
| 18 | As children we tend to work on this and practise asking for what we want at every available opportunity . |
| 19 | You 've learned there 's no hope with one-night standers , so simply say thanks for the meal , but no thanks when they start asking for the afters . |
| 20 | I do ask for your prayers . |
| 21 | But what they do ask for , and what we should be calling to this government to honour the existing contracts at Swan Hunters , to allow the workers at Swan to complete the work on the three vessels already in the river . |
| 22 | Customers vary in age , he added , although the younger ones tend to ask for a pea butty a scoop of mushy peas in a bun . |
| 23 | We 've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book ! |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I can tell you what they 've asked for . |
| 25 | If they 've asked for really impossible things , it means the whole siege has been done for publicity — and they 'll probably kill Liam whatever happens . |
| 26 | ‘ This must be about the sixth glass of water you 've asked for . ’ |
| 27 | Moderator I 've asked for this new clause to come in immediately after seven because of what in accepting seven we 've just done . |
| 28 | I 've asked for about three hours my contact in Liverpool . |
| 29 | ‘ I reckon , with what you 've asked for , there wo n't be much change out of four hundred . ’ |
| 30 | Would it be possible to find out what Priscilla 's results were because she 's had a urine test and she 's extremely sore and they 've asked for another urine test , and I 'm |