Example sentences of "you ask for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you ask for champagne , |
| 2 | If you ask for breakfast in your room they have difficulty in understanding the idea , but they will do it . |
| 3 | Chair , we have through this , what we 've actually s what you 're actually saying there , because I , I happen to be of the view that when you ask for identification of five percent across all the committees and then you start to take that quite happily from the smaller spend committee , then clearly you 're in a position where you have to address the er , question , do we really want to provide this service at all , and that would be tragic in the case of economic development , because it 's so vital to the erm , economic development of the county as a whole , and so , yes , there , I would suggest that there 's clearly the need to be a corporate view , and a corporate er , er , will to actually put up resources at your disposal , er , er , especially since five B was n't actually , although it was it had n't actually been granted , so it was a bit of an unknown quantity when perhaps the first P A G erm , sat and deliberated . |
| 4 | use vague requests ( e.g. ‘ Why ca n't you be more polite ? ’ instead of ‘ Say ‘ please ’ when you ask for something' ) ? |
| 5 | And you are left alone , unless you ask for help . |
| 6 | ‘ If you are daft enough to bring such a nice wee lassie like her , to a dangerous place such as this , then you ask for trouble . |
| 7 | If you ask for clarification then nine times out of ten you will get it . |
| 8 | If you ask for Tampax they have to write down how many , because you can use the wrapping paper for roll-ups . |