Example sentences of "ask for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How does it work ? , ’ he asked for the sake of British tabloid papers . |
| 2 | The panel asked for the new data to be published as a correction to the original paper . |
| 3 | Last week , when drafts of the latest NIH report began to circulate , Dr Baltimore finally asked for the Cell paper to be retracted . |
| 4 | I forgot to give it to Madge when she asked for the keys . |
| 5 | But did you say Madge asked for the keys ? |
| 6 | The bemused Parisians did n't know what the fuck we were on about when we asked for the ‘ Adidas Centre ’ in several differing French accents . |
| 7 | All he could remember was that TOWs were shipped at some point ; that ‘ the price asked for the military was twelve million two ’ ; that the aircraft could turn round and abort the delivery if the hostages were not released , which he thought was ‘ a most unusual thing ’ ; and that it was definitely not ‘ the Khomeini ’ with whom he had been doing business . |
| 8 | Victor concentrated ; asked for the lamp to be turned down low . |
| 9 | It is understood that family members , who control the estate of the writer , asked for the material to be withheld . |
| 10 | One presumes Waterloo then asked for the best of three for just qualifying for Bath is worth a minimum of £1,500 . |
| 11 | In 1989 their parents asked for the twins ' photograph to be published in a Sunday newspaper and vowed that they would never be locked away in an institution . |
| 12 | Another asked for the name of a good travel agent , while a third declared : ‘ I do not think I can bear another five years of Andrew Lloyd Webber ; I 'm off . ’ |
| 13 | If he asked him to pass the screwdriver he passed the hammer and if he asked for the hammer , he passed the nearest broomhandle , which was usually in another room altogether . |
| 14 | ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto . |
| 15 | This June Meeting asked for the bond balances to be called in so as the final land purchase could go ahead and , for the first of many times , it discussed the question of the use of caddies on a Sunday . |
| 16 | They marched into the shop and asked for the manager . |
| 17 | A young man wearing a yarmulka skullcap and sitting astride a roaring tractor wiped his brow with his arm when I asked for the location of Um Al-Farajh . |
| 18 | He tipped his seat back and zipped his jacket right up and he asked for the music to go on again , and he lay there in the dark with the music on , feeling warm in the middle of the freezing night , and he could feel himself smiling . |
| 19 | Sarazen was so sure that Daniels had been the key to his win that he asked for the old boy to be with him when he was presented with the claret jug , saying it was a ‘ team victory ’ . |
| 20 | Only one contestant appeared and at the end of the prescribed waiting period , the hour of nine he asked for the non-appearance of his adversary to be legally recorded . |
| 21 | She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian . |
| 22 | Philip asked for the loan of five ships ; Richard offered three . |
| 23 | Partly as a result of this unexpected support , the band decided to release the Ukrainian Peel sessions on a 10-inch mini-LP , ‘ Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela ’ , no doubt most fans just asked for The Wedding Present 's Ukrainian album . |
| 24 | Mick began , then paused where it asked for the name of the vehicle 's owner . |
| 25 | ‘ But why ca n't I join Brownies , Mummy ? ’ she asked for the twentieth time . |
| 26 | A week later , Tite again asked for the drawings to be exhibited ‘ with as little delay as possible ’ . |
| 27 | A program knowing something about people 's typical behaviour in restaurants is able to infer ( without needing to be explicitly told ) that if John asked for the bill and then left , he probably paid the bill before leaving . |
| 28 | after the failure of the first implant , asked for the fourth embryo to be thawed and implanted . |
| 29 | So a basic VHS machine will now cost around £450 or £500 — the price previously asked for the poor-selling V2000 machines from Philips and Grundig . |
| 30 | The US , which is paying about $4 million for each missile , rightly points out , and sometimes ruefully , that the nations of Western Europe asked for the weapon to be deployed in the first place . |