Example sentences of "and asked [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 2 | I used to go to Orkney for to go and asked for some cardboard boxes only we call them pasteboard boxes . |
| 3 | Leonard could be depressive along with many other poets ( the psycho-endocrinological critique of poetry has yet to be written ! ) ; he could also be uplifting and assertive ; he could , indeed , write ‘ about something ’ to use Faulkner 's phrase from The Bear , and did so to the advantage of large numbers of people who gladly read , and asked for more . |
| 4 | She expressed a warm opinion of the piece and asked for more of her work . |
| 5 | I accepted that but , having in mind Sweden 's small population and great resources of iron and timber , thought it an untypical sort of country , and asked for another . |
| 6 | When he received a Mickey Mouse , he swelled triumphantly , and asked for another . |
| 7 | On May 13th , after days of heavy selling by the markets — and heavy buying by Spain 's central bank — the government suspended its obligation to defend the peseta , and asked for another realignment of the system . |
| 8 | He finished the beer and asked for another . |
| 9 | So she gave Jamie to a horse dealer called Liz Burt and asked for another in return . |
| 10 | Northallerton magistrates sentenced the 20-year-old to a total of seven months in a youth custody centre after he admitted two burglary charges and asked for another seven offences to be taken into consideration . |