Example sentences of "[was/were] asking for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is partly that the teachers were asking for a depth of cataloguing , a level of retrieval , that is very expensive . |
| 2 | Basically this calls for an identification of present requirements and an assessment of likely requirements over the next 5 years , subject to review/upgrading in year 6 ; it may be that our letter conveyed the impression that we were asking for a ‘ 12-year plan ’ , this is not the case . |
| 3 | Virgin offered to improve the deal still further to a 75–25 split , but Miles Copeland , Sting 's manager , flatly refused , ostensibly because Virgin were asking for the length of the contract to be extended to include the publishing rights to more albums . |
| 4 | In fact , she was asking for no more than American colleges everywhere asked of their alumni , and many Americans had benefited from the Oxford system . |
| 5 | and another voice was asking for a priest . |
| 6 | On 22 June , when the Prime Minister was asking for a corps of at least 5,000 parachutists , the commando idea was moving in a number of directions . |
| 7 | Bob Haboldt , who showed a mixture of Italian , French , Dutch and Flemish works mostly priced at FFr 50–150,000 , sold four , but found collectors surprised by the FFr 500,000 ( £51,500 ; $89,700 ) he was asking for a very rare study of deer by Jan Brueghel the Elder and the FFr 400,000 ( £41,200 ; $71,750 ) he expected for a study of standing men by Pietro da Cortona . |
| 8 | But I must have done well the term before , or perhaps he was slacking , or both , because there we were together and Nigel as he then called himself was asking for a pound . |
| 9 | He said , ‘ She was asking for a divorce . ’ |
| 10 | He was asking for a fell-walking guide . |
| 11 | We had a motion which was put before Conference last year and it was carried and it was asking for a similar review to what 's being asked for this morning . |
| 12 | Leaning against a Cas. wall when Sister was on the bridge was asking for an explosion . |
| 13 | You would think that I was asking for the earth to be changed but I 'm not really . |