Example sentences of "they ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's always keeping his eyes on what the kids are wearing and nudging us about what we see out there , what we hear them asking for , ’ says Caroline Freeman , an Armanishly elegant stick insect who works on his British team . |
| 2 | If you contact them ask for the Lineco Catalogue No L533–1000 . |
| 3 | As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations . |
| 4 | In such a situation in a foreign country I am never able to speak the language , so when they asked for my passport I just said ‘ Hotel ’ , because Spanish hotels always kept visitors ' passports , at any rate for the first night . |
| 5 | They expressed a wish to die in the wilderness ; they shall have what they asked for . |
| 6 | They shall very nearly have what they asked for . |
| 7 | ‘ I resigned at the same time as they asked for my resignation . |
| 8 | And so they asked for English counsel and ‘ furtherance ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ In giving the little I had ’ , says Baxter , ‘ I did not enquire whether they were good or bad if they asked for relief ; for the bad had souls and bodies that needed charity most . ’ |
| 10 | By breaking that agreement , homosexuals ‘ got the backlash they asked for . ’ |
| 11 | They asked for all the recommendations for a carer , and home support to be implemented . |
| 12 | They asked for access to give spiritual support to the Quaker children . |
| 13 | In fact , they asked for the practices and procedures of all the agencies involved to be thoroughly scrutinised . |
| 14 | When they asked for volunteers to carry out the various tasks of such a committee , the offers came in promptly from all parts of the Hall . |
| 15 | They asked for a delegation to meet the Social Work Committee ; they asked the Director of Social Work to meet with the Action Committee Chairman and Vice-Chairman to discuss the report issued by the organisation PAIN . |
| 16 | They asked for a multi-agency conference to be convened , involving the Social Work Department , teachers , doctors and health visitors . |
| 17 | They asked for information in a general way about various obvious crimes that had taken place in south-east Antrim . |
| 18 | Might the university expect better grades than they asked for previously ? |
| 19 | When the National Rivers Authority heard of the Gold Line product they asked for samples , and so impressed were they that Steve now supplies exclusively to the Thames and Severn/Trent divisions , which both have extensive coarse fish breeding stations . |
| 20 | They asked for particulars ; pink tie made some notes . |
| 21 | They asked for money for the child 's family . |
| 22 | He asked what they would like to drink and they asked for coffee , declining his offer of liqueurs . |
| 23 | When the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales , and the Gwent and Brecknock Wildlife Trusts met council officers and their advisers they asked for an assurance the council would proceed with the bill ( 2 ) . |
| 24 | Take-up has stemmed partly from the wish of those companies trading internationally and particularly in the highly litigious US to protect their directors and partly because , as Willis Corroon 's Drew Hardie said , ‘ when directors who had had this cover then moved to other companies they asked for it to be part of their new contract ’ . |
| 25 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 26 | Well after that , if they asked for yo a pound of apples , you could get them the pound of apples and you 'd se sell a lot quicker . |
| 27 | They asked for chocolate , mind you . |
| 28 | I know that today 's announcement will be a disappointment for them , and that those on the Tyne recognise that the response to all that they asked for previously was fair play . |
| 29 | Alec and his colleagues believe the military would laugh at them if they asked for personal protection weapons . |
| 30 | When the landlord 's agents and the militia arrived , the tenants offered the whole of next year 's rent in advance if only Mrs. Pedelty would leave them at peace ; it had taken half an hour to get word to her of this offer and to bring back her refusal Then they asked for compensation for the land they had cleared and she sent back to say if they persisted in the claim she would sue for dilapidation and waste . |