Example sentences of "asking for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand that C E C's accepting this motion and asking for remittance for further consultation . |
| 2 | We are just asking for knowledge of the Minister 's attitude to a funding council . |
| 3 | You will find no happiness , for ultimately life does not allow you to get away with anything , but rather , it has an uncanny way of asking for payment when we least expect it . |
| 4 | This may be on a sale or return agreement without asking for payment . |
| 5 | Tact must always be used when asking for identification or payment in advance . |
| 6 | Jordan knew all that , he was just asking for asking 's sake . |
| 7 | It is also asking for air-time on radio and television , and for access to national and provincial newspapers and magazines . |
| 8 | Those thinking about asking for funding might find it useful to look at the SOED booklet referred to above . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not asking for capital . |
| 10 | when asking for name and telephone number eye contact , alright there . |
| 11 | I feel genuinely hostile to an undergraduate ( supposedly one of the best educated people in the country ) who writes asking for sponsorship for some project and who does not know how to begin or end his letter or how to spell the name of the person to whom he is appealing . |
| 12 | He had a dry throat , too , and kept asking for water . |
| 13 | Then , " two children came into the room and came over to me asking for water . |
| 14 | What about local businesses , are they going to be getting involved , are you going to be asking for involvement from local businesses ? |
| 15 | ‘ If any of those Coventry supporters comes this way asking for petrol , ’ shouted Mick , ‘ I 'll tell 'em where to go . |
| 16 | Encourage comment , speculation and prediction rather than asking for reproduction of what they have heard . |
| 17 | Faced with the defenceless young man asking for mercy , the blacksmith could not kill him , so he relieved him of his sword and took him prisoner . |
| 18 | He bids farewell to sorrow , hoping henceforth to unpick with patience the lock of his disease , taking his punishment , and seeking to amend his life , giving thanks , and asking for mercy . |
| 19 | I could not accept this terrible punishment , and wrote to all the important people I could think of , asking for mercy for Magwitch . |
| 20 | This influences the expectations that the public in Easton have of the police , and of their role in the community — a point which one constable made by explaining that one resident in Easton , upon finding himself locked out of his home , called at the station asking for the duplicate set of keys to his house which he thought the police would routinely possess for the residents ' benefit ; phone calls from the public asking for air and train information also sometimes occur . |
| 21 | Vinoba in his pilgrimages around India asking for land to be distributed to the poor said , ‘ I myself went one day to the temple of Deogar , but the priests beat me because I brought my brothers , the pariahs ( outcastes ) there . |
| 22 | And therefore the requirement is simply for a parent asking for baptism for their child to have been baptised . |
| 23 | In other words , given no food choice a cat gives up asking for variety ; given variety it demands more . |
| 24 | She put her request prettily , asking for peace and quiet to study in , more space for books and plants . |
| 25 | At 4 pm the following afternoon he awoke and came downstairs asking for breakfast ! |
| 26 | He was replying to the disclosure by John Ward , the dead woman 's father , that he had written to Mr Rowland earlier this year asking for assistance in persuading the Kenyan authorities to open a murder inquiry . |
| 27 | Jersey cops put out an alert to the Yard asking for assistance in tracking down the globe-trotting 27-year-old . |
| 28 | WILLIAMS is seen asking for assistance from LADY JONES and LORD DARNFORD . ] |
| 29 | An article will be published in the C.B News asking for assistance , not necessarily on a full time , regular basis . |
| 30 | That is why the IAEA approached France and the United Kingdom asking for assistance in removing the material and making it safe in specialised facilities . |