Example sentences of "[conj] ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The classical recourse of the bourgeois in trouble or with cause for complaint was to exercise or ask for personal influence : to have a word with the mayor , the deputy , the minister , the old school or college comrade , the kinsman or business contact . |
| 2 | The driver is that , even though I am suffering , it adds merit to what I do — i.e. I will stand rather than sit , I will struggle through alone rather than ask for help . |
| 3 | More often Hanka Zborowska switched the lights off and they pretended to be out so that Modigliani would not come up and ask for an advance on the next day 's work . |
| 4 | The most important thing is to stay calm , give yourself time to think and ask for clarification if necessary . |
| 5 | If you are rejected the most constructive thing you can do is to phone or write and ask for the reasons why . |
| 6 | Rather it is first like a hopeless drifting , a little apart from the world , afraid and unwilling to reach out and ask for help . |
| 7 | People ca n't even come up and ask for an autograph . |
| 8 | Men have been known to write and ask for a picture of me in a bathing costume . |
| 9 | If you need more information about driving licence matters you should contact and ask for ‘ Driver Enquiries ’ . |
| 10 | They would become so hooked on their daily interaction with their licensed dealer that they would ring up and ask for job interviews , often with the connivance of their own dealers . |
| 11 | But her sister refused , so the younger one had to go and ask for herself . |
| 12 | I knew I would never have the courage to go and ask for my job back after the baby was born , even if circumstances allowed it ; it would soon be filled again , and it 's always horrible to go back to a place where you 've been happy in your own little niche and find somebody else in it . |
| 13 | So if a girl does not feel able to go and ask for the Pill , or if she is reluctant to use it because she sees it as a health risk , the alternative may be to use nothing . |
| 14 | This in turn depends on the relevance it has , how important it is to them not to get pregnant , and how easy emotionally and practically it is to go somewhere and ask for it . |
| 15 | But if she did n't take it back he would only come along and ask for it She was surprised he had n't already . |
| 16 | So for them to actually come and ask for our work to be exhi er exhibited there , is excellent . |
| 17 | So he told me to go and ask for a job there . |
| 18 | Can you call and ask for Inspector , he 'll tell you more . |
| 19 | At the end of the last series , presenter Gordon Burns invited anyone who was interested in taking part to write in and ask for a place — and Paul was among the 8,000 who applied . |
| 20 | And they said erm if you would like to see the designs write and ask for a sample so we wrote and I have n't actually received any samples yet . |
| 21 | If she could be sure Miguel was there , she could walk up and ask for the jeep . |
| 22 | Wallace and Speed were the scorers … shame Town ca n't appeal and ask for a replay … |
| 23 | You 've got to go and ask for them to take you on the erm |
| 24 | Bloody hell , are they now , what do I go and ask for ? |
| 25 | All of the uses that I know of diagnostic computers are involve the doctor talking to the patient , looking at the patient , taking symptoms and then going and using the computer in a similar way that we perhaps might go and ask for an x-ray . |