Example sentences of "when [noun] ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when Esquire ask for their 2,000 words next month about the connection between the Croatian Winter Olympics team uniform and Public Enemy , or the brutal point of Michael Barrymore , I can somehow contrive it that I end up writing about how it feels waiting for Maddy 's first smile , about the wonder of her 35th day , about her growing up and me growing up . |
| 2 | When Jane asked for an overdraft , the bank manager ( slogan : ‘ We Like to Say ‘ Yes ’ ’ ) , a pompous Dad 's Army look-alike , after conferring with some nasty men in suits who turned their backs to her , had shown her the door . |
| 3 | There is no surplus from which to pay a dividend , but when directors asked for £162m of new capital through a rights issue at this time last year , shareholders were promised an unchanged final 7.64p , so they should receive it on July 1 . |
| 4 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 5 | Only about one hundred copies had been circulated when Shelley asked for the destruction of the rest of the edition . |
| 6 | When Mapplethorpe asked for the objects to be returned , Bell and his staff presented him with a letter purported to be in Wagstaff 's hand , extending the loan period an additional five years . |
| 7 | A commission to paint Comic Strip comedian Rik Mayall ended rather abruptly when Mayall asked for fuel of an alcoholic nature during his afternoon sitting and , on learning that the artist voted Conservative , began doing Hitler goose steps around the room . |
| 8 | Little was heard of the committee until six months later when Billy asked for another group meeting . |
| 9 | We now sell Book Tokens only when people ask for them . |
| 10 | I was duly astonished when Harley asked for his putter and sent Derek Jefferson ahead to hold the flag . |
| 11 | When Richardson asked for them back , Billy airily said , ‘ Oh , I 've given all that to the Musée Picasso ’ . |
| 12 | When Schoenberg asks for the piccolo to play ppp in the top level of its register ‘ so schwach wie möglich ’ with the bassoon and solo strings at different dynamic levels , and then asks for completely different textures and dynamics in the next variation , I know that this can not be properly realized by an orchestra in a concert-hall seated in the conventional way . |
| 13 | Firemen in Hartlepool were only too happy to help out when pupils asked for assistance in putting up bird boxes in trees within the grounds of West Park School . |
| 14 | There was an independent witness who deposed that Aitken had a conversation with him shortly after the publication of the report and before any fee was paid , when Aitken asked for the names of Biafran charities to which the money might properly be sent . |
| 15 | When employees ask for more money it is a comparative exercise . |