Example sentences of "[verb] been asking for " in BNC.

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1 Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it .
2 Trying to interrogate officers of the Grand Army would have been asking for trouble .
3 He would have liked to have watched it from the public gallery ; but that would have been asking for trouble .
4 Eighteen months ago they would n't have been asking for more money
5 He certainly seems to have been asking for something , if not something quite as drastic as he got .
6 He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail .
7 Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him .
8 And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ?
9 Erm it 's an exercise that you 've been asking for .
10 Now we 've been asking for this for years .
11 And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there .
12 ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’
13 All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ?
14 Cos they have n't , they , they 've been asking for
15 Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now .
16 Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years .
17 This is what goats have been asking for in the their prayers .
18 As clerk to the local Parish Council I should like to point out that Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have been asking for a footpath along this stretch of highway for the last twenty years .
19 ‘ We have been asking for this specialist help at the Memorial hospital for a long time now , but there has been no movement from the health authority over this matter . ’
20 She 's been asking for you , she feels terribly guilty about the baby . ’
21 ‘ He 's been asking for you . ’
22 Actually , Becky 's been asking for you , Rourke .
23 Your wife 's been asking for you — ’
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