Example sentences of "ask for money " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I asked for money from my husband he would talk of all the expenses , of how much it cost the family to keep me . |
| 2 | He never asked for money . |
| 3 | Not the end if the woman asked for money or threatened disclosure . |
| 4 | This advertisement in the Morning Post of 23 October 1809 asked for money towards a fund for offering compositions to creditors which would effect the debtors ' release — 10s in the pound for every debt under £20 ; 7s 6d under £50 ; 5s above £50 . |
| 5 | Matthew : Matthew makes Judas out to be a greedy man who asked for money . |
| 6 | News on Sunday asked for money to produce a dummy newspaper , which would then be market-researched , and the results wrapped into a feasibility study . |
| 7 | Another letter from the middle school was about a visiting theatre group and asked for money as well as a tear-off slip . |
| 8 | They asked for money for the child 's family . |
| 9 | She did nothing much about it — Eismark was still just somebody in shipping , not a politician — and it was only when he came onto the Secretariat that she asked for money to do some more work about it . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Johns said he knew nothing of this but the next day Grugel again asked for money and became aggressive . |
| 11 | Mr Johns said he knew nothing of this but the next day Grugel again asked for money and became aggressive . |
| 12 | Officials asked for money to help the Middlesbrough club survive after a series of fires at their Normanby Road ground . |
| 13 | The 14-year-old boy was walking the alsatian along a path between Park Avenue and Penparcau , Aberystwyth , Powys , when the attacker , who was aged about 20 , approached him and asked for money . |
| 14 | In the nearest modern marketing has come to the skin-flintery of Ebenezer Scrooge , a growing number of American shopping malls have picked the Christmas season to ban the Salvation Army from ringing its bells and asking for money for its traditional Big Red Kettle collection boxes . |
| 15 | ‘ Here we have Wren Boys who dress up and go from door to door asking for money , every St Stephen 's Day , ’ she said . |
| 16 | asking for money without explaining what it is for |
| 17 | ‘ I worked for three years in the Collector of Taxes department , which was really just shuffling papers and asking for money . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm asking for money , ’ I replied , my cheeks red . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're not just asking for money , though , are you ? ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ You are asking for money , I suppose , ’ he said frostily . |
| 21 | Much as she dreaded the near embarrassment of asking for money , the West Bog and its drainage was the best and readiest solution to their problem . |
| 22 | They should not feel aggrieved at her asking for money ; when she went into the cold hall she felt that it would not give her back much , if anything . |
| 23 | ‘ He was asking for money . ’ |
| 24 | In that first parliament of his , immediately after his coronation , he had refrained from asking for money , had even prided himself on his princely forbearance , and believed it had won him friends and trust . |
| 25 | ‘ He had some of our headed notepaper with a photograph of himself and was asking for money from people in Balmoral Avenue . |
| 26 | Police announced that youths posing as charity collectors have been knocking on doors in Liverpool asking for money for the James Bulger Appeal . |
| 27 | Little urchins tugging on our coat tails , miming eating , asking for money like some white-skinned version of a miniature beggar in a Calcutta slum . |
| 28 | I 'm not asking for money or taking anything from you . |
| 29 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 30 | Look for the full name and address on the ad , so you can trace the company , especially if it asks for money in advance . |