Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what 's more , there 's no pressure to buy , no long term commitment to meet and a Red House ordering procedure that guarantees that you only ever get the books you ask for . |
| 2 | Not all parents who ask for help will be expecting the professional to solve the problem for them . |
| 3 | Now hear this : I will take provisions only if you take me to Elaine and provide both of us with the things I ask for . ’ |
| 4 | Questions which ask for a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ answer are badly devised and do not carry the interview forward in a constructive way . |
| 5 | Some families who ask for help have a basically good relationship with their children . |
| 6 | The sales assistant serves you personally — she selects the goods you ask for , takes your money , gives you your change , wraps up your purchase and may even pack the goods into your shopping bag . |
| 7 | The guidelines say that doctors should seriously consider requests from patients with incurable diseases who ask for their lives to be ended . |
| 8 | Spontaneous examples of positive performance such as using specific knowledge , rounding , correcting and so on are generally recorded during oral interaction with pupils and are not revealed by written tests which ask for specific answers to specific questions . |
| 9 | The idea is graphically summarised by Alison Norman : ‘ We are all familiar with the advertisements and Christmas begging letters which ask for money in terms which suggest that old people are in danger of hypothermia or social isolation simply because they are old — not because they do not have sufficient incomes to heat and repair their homes or to pay for a taxi or telephone . ’ |
| 10 | I wanted to find a better job , but for a factory you need to have finished school and in the coffee processing industries they ask for ninth grade . |