Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 2 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 3 | Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him . |
| 4 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 5 | ‘ He 's been asking for you . ’ |