Example sentences of "[vb base] be asking [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Finance are asking for your overseas ' expenses for Greece …
2 Erm it 's an exercise that you 've been asking for .
3 Now we 've been asking for this for years .
4 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 .
5 ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’
6 All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ?
7 Cos they have n't , they , they 've been asking for
8 But we 've been asking during this programme will the real John Major please stand up .
9 Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street .
10 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 .
11 Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years .
12 This is what goats have been asking for in the their prayers .
13 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 .
14 ‘ 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 . ’
15 Neither Quasp nor Blast exist , although we 've heard that enough worried Mancs have been asking about their location , wondering why they had n't yet heard about them .
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