Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] asked for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Endill asked for a box of nails and Wednesday returned ten minutes later with a tin of spaghetti . |
| 2 | Adam , who is conflating events from various dates here , reports that Conrad asked for the marriage of Cnut 's daughter ( Gunnhild ) to his son ( Henry ) , and ceded Schleswig and territory north of the river Eider ( south of Hedeby ) as a token of their treaty of friendship . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was this symbolic importance which led Home Secretary Kenneth Baker , when responding to the Woolf report in February 1991 , to announce that all prisoners would have access to toilet facilities by the end of 1994 ( more than a year earlier than Woolf asked for ) . |
| 4 | The Government had failed to agree on a programme : Baldwin was for protection ; Samuel was against it ; and MacDonald asked for ‘ a doctors mandate ’ . |
| 5 | His glance towards the file told them precisely where that letter was and McLeish asked for it promptly . |
| 6 | In 1908 , the men met in Ayr and Kilpatrick asked for settlement of his share of the Baron 's earnings . |
| 7 | In 1982 the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales asked for a new Religious Education programme that would reflect this thinking . |
| 8 | They had , it appears , expended upwards of £100 to that date and Millford asked for a new lease upon Fleming Royalties in Shaw 's and Wildhagen 's names . |
| 9 | A program knowing something about people 's typical behaviour in restaurants is able to infer ( without needing to be explicitly told ) that if John asked for the bill and then left , he probably paid the bill before leaving . |
| 10 | The raid was not too bad , but Gillies asked for his unit to be moved further out into the country after that . |
| 11 | A quarrel between Corcyra , a daughter-city of Corinth , and Epidamnos , a daughter-city of Corcyra herself , led to the first open clash , the battle of Sybota , between Athenian and Peloponnesian League ships ( 433 ) : Epidamnos had appealed over the head of Corcyra to the ‘ grandmother ’ Corinth , while Corcyra asked for , and got , help from Athens . |
| 12 | When Jane asked for an overdraft , the bank manager ( slogan : ‘ We Like to Say ‘ Yes ’ ’ ) , a pompous Dad 's Army look-alike , after conferring with some nasty men in suits who turned their backs to her , had shown her the door . |
| 13 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 14 | Only about one hundred copies had been circulated when Shelley asked for the destruction of the rest of the edition . |
| 15 | When Mapplethorpe asked for the objects to be returned , Bell and his staff presented him with a letter purported to be in Wagstaff 's hand , extending the loan period an additional five years . |
| 16 | A commission to paint Comic Strip comedian Rik Mayall ended rather abruptly when Mayall asked for fuel of an alcoholic nature during his afternoon sitting and , on learning that the artist voted Conservative , began doing Hitler goose steps around the room . |
| 17 | Little was heard of the committee until six months later when Billy asked for another group meeting . |
| 18 | I was duly astonished when Harley asked for his putter and sent Derek Jefferson ahead to hold the flag . |
| 19 | When Richardson asked for them back , Billy airily said , ‘ Oh , I 've given all that to the Musée Picasso ’ . |
| 20 | There was an independent witness who deposed that Aitken had a conversation with him shortly after the publication of the report and before any fee was paid , when Aitken asked for the names of Biafran charities to which the money might properly be sent . |