Example sentences of "[verb] [be] ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us . |
| 2 | CPRW is one of a small handful of organisations in Wales that has been asked for views on what the report should say . |
| 3 | CPRW is one of a small handful of organisations in Wales that has been asked for views on what the report should say . |
| 4 | Costs could be enormous , and the Royal and Ancient , the game 's governing body , has been asked for financial assistance . |
| 5 | You have refused to pay what has been asked for my return , but if you knew what I have become , a fearless old man with nothing left to lose , you would pay twice as much to have me kept away ! |
| 6 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 7 | Now we committee erm with the resignation of Joan as ticket and subscription secretary , so all I can do is ask for any nominations from the floor , please or any volunteer who would like to follow Joan . |
| 8 | Finance are asking for your overseas ' expenses for Greece … |
| 9 | The one who suffers is asking for help . |
| 10 | What you 'll have to do is to ask for your allocation to be increased . ’ |
| 11 | All I had to do was ask for directions . |
| 12 | In many cases the major clients of the merging firms will have been asked for their views on the merger at the outset of negotiations . |
| 13 | Trying to interrogate officers of the Grand Army would have been asking for trouble . |
| 14 | He would have liked to have watched it from the public gallery ; but that would have been asking for trouble . |
| 15 | Eighteen months ago they would n't have been asking for more money |
| 16 | All they 're doing is asking for something to eat , but it can be quite painful |
| 17 | Motion two seven nine as the General Secretary has indicated is asking for reference . |
| 18 | He certainly seems to have been asking for something , if not something quite as drastic as he got . |
| 19 | But he always liked being asked for his opinion : it made him feel important and he had never understood why people needed to go on assertiveness courses . |
| 20 | ‘ All they ever do is ask for money . |
| 21 | First of all chairman we have put in this morning erm a paper on commitments which erm I think was asked for by the panel which is this document which should have been circulated er by now . |
| 22 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 23 | In such cases , it was best to say one would go directly and to rush out of the room and hope the substitute finally brought would convince him this was what had been asked for . |
| 24 | I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion . |
| 25 | This reply , however , turned out to be incorrect , as teachers had been asked for pen-portraits of the children for use at the Panel Hearings , and the Acting Director of Education Mike Drever had supported the request . |
| 26 | The Social Security Advisory Committee had been asked for its solution to the argument about when men and women should retire . |
| 27 | There was no evidence as to what the Perots ' attitude would have been if they had been asked for more than $2.5m. for Caliban . |
| 28 | had been asked for his advice , had recommended someone , and been told to approach him . |
| 29 | The UGC had been asked for and supplied a list of existing two-year courses , of which there were few , and all required more than two ‘ A ’ levels as an entry qualification ( most were , in fact , conversion or second-degree courses ) . |
| 30 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |