Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] to ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if the stranger had come to ask for his two pounds back , my sister would gladly have given it to him . |
| 2 | I read that 10 players had threatened to ask for transfers if I stayed on … they were supposed to be polled by telephone by some members of the Board . |
| 3 | Isabel had meant to ask for her hand back , but now her breath seemed to have been stolen as well . |
| 4 | Fewer than fifty had survived to ask for quarter , and fewer still had received it . |
| 5 | George had chosen to ask for Mr Nightingale because he had already established that connection . |