Example sentences of "and ask [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell a trusted friend — preferably an adult — and ask them for advice about what to do . |
| 2 | Talk to your church leader or youth leader and ask them for advice and prayer support . |
| 3 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 4 | Erm you can phone them up and ask them for a Yellow Pages listing and they and they 'll give at random a listing from the Yellow Pages in whatever area you ask for . |
| 5 | Position a different 6 people 5 metres away from the same wall and ask them for their estimates . |
| 6 | so you can go to them and ask them for advice and they ca n't give it , because there 's not that link back to where you know |
| 7 | erm I would suggest that anybody who 's really erm concerned in the way you were can either approach their local Education Authority and ask them for some kind of information on this . |
| 8 | Daisy was screwing up her courage to accost Ricky and ask him for a drink after church when the Vicar launched into the final prayer about being made flesh , and she suddenly remembered the vast ox heart cooking in the oven for Ethel , which would burn dry if it was n't taken out , so she belted home . |
| 9 | ‘ Kristian is very good with fans when they see him the street and ask him for autographs . |
| 10 | In real-time only seconds had passed , not much more time than it would have taken to see if he was in and ask him for a few minutes of his time . |
| 11 | Give him a call and ask him for some winners . ’ |
| 12 | Sometimes the English Catholics write to me and ask me for help , and sometimes I write to them . |
| 13 | When you 've read it come and ask me for the disk and I 'll lend it to you . |
| 14 | And er anyway he come and ask me for a dance he did he goes , I 'm not much of dancer we did that one you know , what they call it ? |
| 15 | His technique was to go up to one at a literary party and ask her for a cigarette . |
| 16 | Would you like to go to grandma and ask her for a cloth ? |
| 17 | We walk down the street and are instantly recognised by a handsome Latino man and his girlfriend who come over and ask us for works . |
| 18 | No , they wrote and ask you for the exact date of day I started getting ability allowance . |