Example sentences of "have asked for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More subtle forms of referent power occur when an individual asks others to complete a task because ‘ the chief executive ’ or ‘ the minister ’ has asked for the work . |
| 2 | She could have asked for the moon , and seen the clansmen climb on each other 's shoulders to reach it down for her . |
| 3 | My Mother was n't insured and the funeral director 's bill of £150 was a shock ( he might as well have asked for the moon ) . |
| 4 | Had she not met Flynn , she would merely have asked for the farms to be restored to Maran Hill ; but the news from London made her too bold . |
| 5 | Realising that the take-off would involve an element of risk , the Nimbus pilot had , in fact , refused to go at first , and had asked for the K8 to be moved . |
| 6 | Mr Chris Spry , for the London Ambulance Service , said that the South West Thames regional health authority had asked for the army 's help . |
| 7 | Come and tell me about this morning , ’ He looked round for Catherine to discover that with admirable good sense she had asked for the facilities of the house , and was being issued with soap and hand-towels by Miss Williams . |
| 8 | Her lawyers had asked for the sentence to be dropped in favour of community service because her health is failing . |
| 9 | Although Granville probably realized the damaging implications of the fact that the Government had asked for the office designs without owning or having authority to acquire the land for them , he then went on to say that with the block plan , Parliament could choose : |
| 10 | Although we did not foresee any difficulties , we were astonished to hear that the Secretary of the Cabinet , Sir Robert Armstrong , had asked for the programme on the Suez operation of 1956 , in which Mountbatten had been First Sea Lord , to be deferred ‘ possibly for some months ’ . |
| 11 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 12 | Unfortunately Lord North saw the question in a different light , for the four dissenting proprietors had asked for the presentation of another candidate . |
| 13 | It was only after he had asked for the bill that he said something that had her on guard again , although there was nothing about his lazy , ‘ Enjoy the party , did you , by the way ? ’ that should have caused her muscles — including her tongue muscles , it seemed — to instantly tighten . |
| 14 | We had asked for the additional cost of providing an extension of the present service to the Cuiken area of Penicuik . |
| 15 | Still half dazed by shock , lashed by rage and a deeper pain she told herself was grief for Edmund , Isabel forgot the fleeting moments when fitzAlan had shown her tenderness despite his suspicions , forgot that he had asked for the truth . |
| 16 | Both governments had asked for the help of the governments of Argentina , Chile and the Andean Pact countries ( Bolivia , Ecuador and Peru ) to resolve the matter . |
| 17 | The opposition had asked for the nullification of an amnesty decree passed by the former government on those who had committed offences during the May protests , including Suchinda . |
| 18 | She had sensed that he believed she had asked for the locket , that she was guilty of abusing his father 's generosity . |
| 19 | The judge said he had asked for the case to be re-listed because he had anxiety about the sentence he imposed . |
| 20 | An Italian daily paper said prosecutor Maria Cordova had asked for the indictment of Maradona and Guillermo Coppola for an alleged shipment of 6.6lb of cocaine from Argentina to Italy in 1991 . |
| 21 | and er I 've asked for the er extra length one . |
| 22 | According to Ravik Smirnov , Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Cultural Commission , the Georgians have already requested the return of knives and weapons from the Kremlin Armoury ; Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have asked for the return of carpets , the Armenians lay claim to the seascape painter Ayvazovskiy , while the Ukrainians want the Cossack Blades . |
| 23 | A parallel debate is evolving in Maine where officials have asked for the removal of a dam , built in 1936 , in order to preserve salmon runs . |
| 24 | Er , Council are also agreeing to the road and a District Council are in agreement with the road , albeit that they have asked for the road to follow more closely to the erm but I believe it is acceptable that the road and the line of the road in general principle is . |
| 25 | The key to using this technique is to keep silent after you have asked for the order . |
| 26 | She 's asked for the icing of off our cake not our cake and she 's not having it . |