Example sentences of "ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his note he asked for medical help — some vitamins , eye-drops , ‘ as I ca n't go out ’ — and for some money . |
| 2 | In 1985 Cox 's paper was timely and asked for shifts in American Irish and British labour politics in a wholly correct way . |
| 3 | The Prospect Inn has two of its decorative lino floors intact , although the owners , Whitbread , destroyed the original pole sign outside when the tenants asked for it to be repaired . |
| 4 | When I arrived at the counter I asked for Katrina . |
| 5 | Leonard could be depressive along with many other poets ( the psycho-endocrinological critique of poetry has yet to be written ! ) ; he could also be uplifting and assertive ; he could , indeed , write ‘ about something ’ to use Faulkner 's phrase from The Bear , and did so to the advantage of large numbers of people who gladly read , and asked for more . |
| 6 | Each night she spoke to a waiter to order a meal ; each morning she asked for boiled rather than scrambled eggs for breakfast . |
| 7 | It was Don who made the effort ; he bought the local paper and looked at ads for houses ; he phoned estate agents and asked for lists of properties . |
| 8 | ‘ Who asked for two eggs and a sausage ? ' |
| 9 | In addition , customers asked for a deposit may now appeal against the decision by BT to charge a deposit . |
| 10 | Bright too had misgivings in this area , particularly about size of the single conductor , and asked for it to be enlarged . |
| 11 | ‘ We have sent it back and asked for a translation . ’ |
| 12 | Sunderland asked for a £50,000 facility fee for admission to their match with Middlesbrough . |
| 13 | The vice-chancellors asked for papers to inform their debate on fees at Leeds . |
| 14 | He also asked for $25m for Hungary . |
| 15 | Sir Rhodes urged Mr Patten to reduce poll tax levels in London by imposing a cap of £300 per adult , and he asked for special help for those people living in low rateable value homes built between 1860 and 1930 . |
| 16 | Shortly afterwards the rebels asked for US troops to help them to defend the routes to the military headquarters they had seized . |
| 17 | Harmon asked for a move after losing his first-team place to Bob Jackson , an Australian in his second spell at Wilderspool , but Oldham and St Helens will be among teams disappointed to learn that Warrington do not intend to list him . |
| 18 | The coup leaders belatedly asked for additional US help . |
| 19 | He admitted eight robberies between May and July and asked for two others and six attempted robberies to be taken into consideration . |
| 20 | I had meant to give a detailed critique of the interaction between performers and studio audience in You Asked For It ( Tuesday , Radio 4 ) , a comedy improvisation game produced by the ‘ Cardiff Comedy Explosion ’ and introduced by a shy man called Luke Sorba . |
| 21 | She said she asked for a lift for herself and a male friend as a joke . |
| 22 | Ghost : Well , Ken , dear boy , you somewhat asked for it , When you chose Henry V to film again , Drawing inevitable comparisons . |
| 23 | A NIGHTCLUB bouncer accused of murdering Marie Wilks asked for a cloth to clean his car hours after her disappearance , then asked to keep the cloth , a court was told yesterday . |
| 24 | She only asked for one word to be removed . ’ |
| 25 | I accepted that but , having in mind Sweden 's small population and great resources of iron and timber , thought it an untypical sort of country , and asked for another . |
| 26 | They looked at me apprehensively when I asked for a drink of cider or wine . |
| 27 | We asked for thermometer ratings ( out of 100 ) for how warm people felt towards parties and their leaders . |
| 28 | Where we asked for marks out of ten , or thermometer ratings out of a hundred , we can use relative scores for different parties to construct measures of preference . |
| 29 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 30 | He told them how morally indefensible was the policy of apartheid , and asked for prayer for Africa . |