Example sentences of "be asking for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they 're asking for help from Swindon 's criminal underworld . |
| 2 | Choose the strong dog in a pack , then fail to discipline it properly , and you 're asking for trouble . |
| 3 | So to bloody tell 150 women , ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry , but you 're not having your visits ’ — you 're asking for trouble . |
| 4 | You 're asking for trouble , mate . |
| 5 | ‘ They 're asking for trouble — disillusionment at the very least , more probably betrayal . ’ |
| 6 | You 're asking for trouble Digger . |
| 7 | Police say it 's the worst assault they 've seen , and they 're asking for information from the criminal underworld . |
| 8 | C E C are asking for reference . |
| 9 | I understand that the C E C are asking for reference of this composite . |
| 10 | The C E C are asking for reference of this particular motion and I ask Ann to put the C E C view . |
| 11 | In marital therapy it is often noticeable that although a couple are asking for help to sort out their problem , so that they may have the closeness and intimacy for which they yearn , fear overcomes hope , and whenever things start to improve one of them can be relied upon to start up the next quarrel . |
| 12 | Almost a year since the end of the Gulf War , more and more of the British men and women who took part are asking for help in straightening out their lives . |
| 13 | At the moment , her organisation only looks after men , but more and more women — some with children — are asking for help . |
| 14 | ‘ You are asking for money , I suppose , ’ he said frostily . |
| 15 | If you have to read out your verbal presentation then you are asking for failure . |
| 16 | People living in one of the country 's most important farmimg regions are asking for cash from the European Community to help regenerate the area . |
| 17 | Others are asking for advice and reassurance amid fears of recession and the advent of a full- scale bear market . |
| 18 | There is no justification at all if you are asking for advice , arranging a loan , seeking help and advice from a doctor or paying a lawyer good money for his or her time . |
| 19 | And people are asking for advice and blessings , telling him about the problems they trust him to solve . |
| 20 | We 've all seen pictures of Page 3 girls and pornographic images of women showing the female body in a constantly inviting , sexual way just walking into a newsagent 's on a Sunday morning often means you are surrounded by them ) and it is hardly surprising if girls themselves , as well as men , sometimes feel confused ; believing that girls might ‘ want ’ to be raped , or are asking for trouble , if they dress up to go out , or behave independently by going out or walking home alone . |
| 21 | If you try moving the feet before changing the rig you are asking for trouble , since , in doing so , the board will wobble in the critical part of the turn thus losing smoothness and speed . |
| 22 | You can provided you keep under the thirteen amp rating but if you go over the thirteen amp rating then you are asking for trouble . |
| 23 | Bare feet are asking for trouble and so you need a pair of soft soled shoes which do n't slip on the boat . |
| 24 | er better support and better advice for schools , but I agree entirely with what says , it 's no good having the best advice in the world if we ca n't deliver the er , er , the , the recommendations and one of the things that er has been borne in , on me , when I was sitting on the panel looking at special educational needs that the early identification of the early intervention when there are difficulties which start to arise in schools can save you a lot of money later on and unless the schools have the resources to er , er to meet with the er recommendations which are being made on particular children , then we are asking for trouble there , so that I 'm very concerned about the fact that er , the like , like the early one which was er increase that er provision . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Trying to interrogate officers of the Grand Army would have been asking for trouble . |
| 27 | They had undoubtedly been asking for trouble . |
| 28 | He would have liked to have watched it from the public gallery ; but that would have been asking for trouble . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm asking for money , ’ I replied , my cheeks red . |
| 30 | If they heard a knock at the door or if they heard shouting and bawling in the street , but there 's nothing they can do what we 're asking for here is and I 'm asking for support is a phone to the people who can not afford one whereas if they hear something they can phone the police , or they can phone the support unit because are two people staying together in this day and age where they can not walk in the streets they 're attacked even in broad daylight going to get their pensions never mind at night-time . |