Example sentences of "[be] asking [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And certainly that other main arm of executive control — the army — seems little better at this than the police , for the number of participant accounts of their deep structures remains negligible , supporting McCabe 's ( 1980 ) contention that we should be asking of all of these costly institutions , ‘ who is to be controlled by whom and for what reasons ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But we wo n't be asking for any of the Conservatives to join us . ’ |
| 3 | In future we 'll be asking for less . ’ |
| 4 | We shall be asking for more details in Committee about who else will be involved and how they will discharge their duties . |
| 5 | I ca n't for the love of me understand the leadership of all the unions that allowed , we do n't even get enough holidays of what they get on the continent , we should be asking for more , not taking them off us or putting it in October to celebrate Nelson and Trafalgar because I could n't give a monkey for 'em . |
| 6 | ‘ In some ways I 'm not really the guy to be asking about all this , because Quo have such a one-off sound . |