Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] ask [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 2 | Would you like to go to grandma and ask her for a cloth ? |
| 3 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 4 | At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship . |
| 5 | One day in April , Horsley , Walsh and Everett spent the morning in Manchester meeting the Co-op insurance company and asking them for a £750,000 investment , before rushing straight round to the Council Economic Development Committee to pitch for another £500,000 . |
| 6 | After her marriage Signor Cantoni 's mother had seemed unable to bear a child so she took a large bunch of carnations to the Madonna and asked her for the gift of a baby . |
| 7 | Claris looks out from under her limp-brimmed woollen hat and asks me for an orange with a charming broken-toothed smile . |
| 8 | Daisy was screwing up her courage to accost Ricky and ask him for a drink after church when the Vicar launched into the final prayer about being made flesh , and she suddenly remembered the vast ox heart cooking in the oven for Ethel , which would burn dry if it was n't taken out , so she belted home . |
| 9 | His technique was to go up to one at a literary party and ask her for a cigarette . |