Example sentences of "ask [pron] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 You asked me for that ?
2 No one asked me for any comment .
3 ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’
4 They asked me for more money .
5 comment if I asked you for some advice ?
6 In order to help us I think in our discussions , it seems to me that , I think we ought to write formally to the County Council and to the District Council actually asking them for more details of their consideration for what they intend to do about parishes .
7 When I was in police custody the doctor came in to see me and gave me some tablets and I 'm asking you for some now . ’
8 Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow .
9 He then asked her for another £46,500 , claiming he needed the money to secure the bonds , and paid that , too , into his account .
10 I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra .
11 I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’
12 When Jamie came in with the food at gloaming , Cameron asked him for another blanket .
13 I asked him for more but he said that with the family allowance we had the same .
14 ask them for another go , of course she left it till she had the results and then told me so I 'm writing now to the
15 erm I would suggest that anybody who 's really erm concerned in the way you were can either approach their local Education Authority and ask them for some kind of information on this .
16 Do you mean to tell me that the girls ask you for such stuff as you have been reading ?
17 Right , now what I 'd like to do now is ask you for some of your , some names of friends of yours who , who I could go through the same process with them and , and establish their financial security for them too .
18 ‘ I should have asked you for more , ’ said Nubenehem .
19 Give him a call and ask him for some winners . ’
20 If it 's an Airborne guy , ask him for some ID . ’
21 But she 'd bite her tongue off sooner than ask him for any favours .
22 Today — Sunday , the day of THE FACE photo session — Melanie asks him for some quotes to give to the Daily Mirror about the affair .
23 Ask her for some Apertate for me .
24 When you said you had been ‘ meaning to ask me for some time ’ , did you mean over the five and a half lonely years to date of my grass widowhood or merely since I 've had no car and no earnings ?
25 ‘ I 'm glad to hear that , ’ said Zach , ‘ because I 'm going to ask you for another good suggestion . ’
26 So , basically what I 'm here to ask you for this evening is your support of the project , and specifically , if the town council could buy us another one of these shipping containers .
27 It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso .
28 We begin to ask him for more of his love to love him more .
29 No , she 's said , she , she ai n't got the courage to ask her for more money , so I said well just give it a few more weeks and then Anne and Brian 's turn up , if it do n't get any better then , I 'm afraid you got Anne and Brian 's .
30 Angela asked us for some help with her wedding day look , she had been growing her old hairstyle out but realised it was n't going to be long enough for her wedding day in September .
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