Example sentences of "ask for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the following day she telephoned a local newspaper , the Sowetan , saying she feared for her life , and asked for protection . |
| 2 | I presided over a the Criminal Law Revision Committee when we reviewed the law relating to rape and we discovered that there was this myth that women asked for rape . |
| 3 | Mrs Stevens eventually gave him 5/ and when he asked for clothing suggested that he look in a nearby workman 's shed . |
| 4 | You asked for Operation Cuckoo to be your personal responsibility and I gave it to you . |
| 5 | Two five five , the reason why the Executive asked for withdrawal was because it 's moving us a bit too fast along this track , and it 's moving us in a particular direction before we 've had the time to think about whether that 's the right direction to go . |
| 6 | We asked for thermometer ratings ( out of 100 ) for how warm people felt towards parties and their leaders . |
| 7 | I also asked for government accounts , and was given the summary of estimates of revenue and expenditure for 1991-2 . |
| 8 | Success rates were generally low for questions which asked for knowledge of the decimal equivalent of common fractions : The answer 1.2 is suggestive of the view that a fraction a/b is equivalent to the decimal a.b . |
| 9 | In 1908 , the men met in Ayr and Kilpatrick asked for settlement of his share of the Baron 's earnings . |
| 10 | If we had wanted that we would have used medical questionnaires to evaluate physical and mental health , listed the facilities and defects in each house , and asked for income and expenditure budgets . |
| 11 | Thereafter , whenever Ferdinand 's armies asked for quarter , they were likely to receive ‘ Magdeburg quarter ’ . |
| 12 | But without doubt the most contentious defector to reach the West was Anatoli Golitsin , who arrived at the office of the CIA 's station chief in Helsinki in Finland in December 1911 and asked for asylum for himself , his wife and daughter . |
| 13 | He was refused entry to Kuwait and asked for asylum in France.President Giscard d'Estaing asked the Shah his views and the Shah made one of the worst mistakes in his reign by agreeing the Khomeini should go to France , He assumed that the obstreperous priest would be les of a threat to him in distant , Christian France than in neighbouring , radical , Islamic country . |
| 14 | The refugee was one of several people travelling on false documents who , when detained in the UK , asked for asylum not only from their countries of origin but also from Germany . |
| 15 | At this point apparently , Pliny became unwell ; he lay down on a cloth spread out for him and twice asked for water to drink . |
| 16 | A slattern brought a small table for Athelstan to rest his writing tray on , and of course a jug of wine and two goblets , though Athelstan shook his head and asked for water . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He never asked for money . |
| 19 | Not the end if the woman asked for money or threatened disclosure . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Matthew : Matthew makes Judas out to be a greedy man who asked for money . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Another letter from the middle school was about a visiting theatre group and asked for money as well as a tear-off slip . |
| 24 | They asked for money for the child 's family . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Mr Johns said he knew nothing of this but the next day Grugel again asked for money and became aggressive . |
| 27 | Mr Johns said he knew nothing of this but the next day Grugel again asked for money and became aggressive . |
| 28 | Officials asked for money to help the Middlesbrough club survive after a series of fires at their Normanby Road ground . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |