Example sentences of "ask you for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 2 | He asked you for life , and you gave it to him — |
| 3 | Which was good news for START ( Skin Treatment and Research Trust ) as we also asked you for a donation to help START in their research into replacement skin for series skin problems . |
| 4 | If the Hapsburgs occupied Paris and a couple of Austrian soldiers asked you for information about a Frenchman , would you tell them ? ’ |
| 5 | If , for example , your boss asked you for ideas but each time you produced one he totally disagreed with it and rejected it out of hand then , assuming you found this unpleasant , your behaviour of putting forward ideas has been punished . |
| 6 | In July we asked you for your original ideas on alternative uses for our free filter matting — and offered a prize of a ‘ lifetime 's supply ’ of Crystal Clear airline . |
| 7 | We asked you for a letter written by a father to his son admitting that he has some embarrassing or socially undesirable condition . |
| 8 | We asked you for a diatribe in verse from Neil Kinnock against the Tory press , the short-sighted public , or anyone or anything else he might be against at the moment . |
| 9 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 10 | I expect he asked you for money . |
| 11 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
| 12 | No I asked you for formally for permission to go ahead and go ahead with the . |
| 13 | I asked you for your one pound eighty five and you said no . |
| 14 | ‘ By asking you for the answer . |
| 15 | I am therefore today asking you for her hand , for no one else is capable of making me happy nor more fitted to wear a crown . |
| 16 | I have not heard anything more since then , and am anxious to give you as much time as possible working with the tape before asking you for feedback on your experiences with it . |
| 17 | And I certainly would n't be asking you for favours . ’ |
| 18 | Mr R. Melbourne of Loughborough wins our first £25 award by asking you for a list of those clubs who have won the old First Division title and also played in the Fourth Division . |
| 19 | When I was in police custody the doctor came in to see me and gave me some tablets and I 'm asking you for some now . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not asking you for a penny . ’ |
| 21 | It 's asking you for a type . |
| 22 | ‘ No , all I 'm asking you for is a few moments of Master Lorimer 's time . |
| 23 | As I understand it Chair , what you 're saying is , that there are , at three there is a , a request for an exclusion of press photographers , but the convenience of press photography we 're saying that instead of taking immediately so that we 'd have to call them back here for the even later , we 're asking you for it to be taken at the end with the rest of exclusion |
| 24 | So can we come back then to er asking you for written confirmation of the |
| 25 | We are asking you for your protection , everything is well documented and clear . |
| 26 | ‘ Was she asking you for money ? ’ |
| 27 | Give me what no one ever asks you for . |
| 28 | Suppose your boss asks you for suggestions about how a particular problem could be solved and you immediately respond with some ideas . |
| 29 | He asks you for details of the players in the last 20 years who have won First Division championship medals with two different clubs . |
| 30 | Once again , having selected the fax as the print device , you ‘ print ’ to it and it asks you for the address details . |