Example sentences of "[verb] be 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 | Finance are asking for your overseas ' expenses for Greece … |
3 | The one who suffers is asking for help . |
4 | Trying to interrogate officers of the Grand Army would have been asking for trouble . |
5 | He would have liked to have watched it from the public gallery ; but that would have been asking for trouble . |
6 | Eighteen months ago they would n't have been asking for more money |
7 | All they 're doing is asking for something to eat , but it can be quite painful |
8 | Motion two seven nine as the General Secretary has indicated is asking for reference . |
9 | He certainly seems to have been asking for something , if not something quite as drastic as he got . |
10 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
11 | Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him . |
12 | 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 ? |
13 | Erm it 's an exercise that you 've been asking for . |
14 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
17 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
18 | Cos they have n't , they , they 've been asking for |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years . |
21 | This is what goats have been asking for in the their prayers . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
24 | She 's been asking for you , she feels terribly guilty about the baby . ’ |
25 | ‘ He 's been asking for you . ’ |
26 | Actually , Becky 's been asking for you , Rourke . |
27 | Your wife 's been asking for you — ’ |