Example sentences of "he [be] asking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it with an odd , teasing leer , as though he were asking for something very difficult , and when the boy spoke he sounded awkward , his voice high and polite . |
| 2 | Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt : |
| 3 | Strictly speaking — and this is important analytically — he is asking for treatment to be discontinued . |
| 4 | In fact he is asking for two kinds of help : aid to stop ongoing injury and aid to recover from the damage . |
| 5 | It looks like a clever move — by publicly questioning the boards intent ( by requesting the meeting ) he is asking for commitment to the progression of the club . |
| 6 | If you do , then maybe you should give him the chance he is asking for . |
| 7 | If you do , then maybe you should give him the chance he is asking for . |
| 8 | erm We 've got to recognise the professional advice that Matthew is giving us in this report , that he , he needs professional trained staff , and it grieves me that really we can only offer a technician when he is asking for something more . |
| 9 | What he 's asking for is that any references to that particular disastrous day is not referred to as Black Wednesday , but in fact as Devaluation Day . |
| 10 | Erm for instance if he 's asking for the child to go to live with him and you oppose that then then court would make a decision as to where the child s should live . |
| 11 | After his triumph , Benn said : ‘ I do n't want to fight Eubank because I do n't like him but I 'll take it for the million he was asking for . ’ |
| 12 | Bob Haboldt , who showed a mixture of Italian , French , Dutch and Flemish works mostly priced at FFr 50–150,000 , sold four , but found collectors surprised by the FFr 500,000 ( £51,500 ; $89,700 ) he was asking for a very rare study of deer by Jan Brueghel the Elder and the FFr 400,000 ( £41,200 ; $71,750 ) he expected for a study of standing men by Pietro da Cortona . |
| 13 | One would have thought that the principle of people living in glass houses not throwing stones would have warned Ivan off a career as a journalist , gossip , and so-called satirist , but it did not seem to occur to him that he was asking for trouble of a kind that she knew would cause him the most intimate anguish : but in fact , so appalling were Ivan 's features and physique that comment on them was rare , even his worst enemies ( and he had hundreds ) not considering them fair game . |
| 14 | He was asking for a fell-walking guide . |
| 15 | ‘ He was asking for money . ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps she ought not to have spoken so bluntly , even though he was asking for it . |
| 17 | Oh well he 's asked them what he was asking for it then ? |