Example sentences of "and asking for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Austrian parents do not have to suffer the embarrassment of going and asking for charity just to send their children to school looking like everyone else . |
| 2 | Dr. Tomlin has written a letter to Mr Gorbachev explaining about his hunger strike , and asking for support to help make him a Czech national again . |
| 3 | He bids farewell to sorrow , hoping henceforth to unpick with patience the lock of his disease , taking his punishment , and seeking to amend his life , giving thanks , and asking for mercy . |
| 4 | By clearing out this mind and asking for help from our mentor with our intuitive self , which is hidden inside us , we can progressively strengthen ourselves . |
| 5 | As this whole approach is to do with openness , its third part is to do with giving people information they need , with expressing your own thoughts and feelings and asking for help and advice when you need it . |
| 6 | The Anonymous Fellowships help sufferers to come to recognise that their problems lie primarily in their own perceptions and behaviour and that solutions lie in giving help to others and asking for help from them . |
| 7 | And , surely it 's about erm helping , I do n't know how you go about it but the illegality of it prevents people admitting it and asking for help , and taking erm any advice that people can give about using it safely . |
| 8 | I understand that C E C's accepting this motion and asking for remittance for further consultation . |
| 9 | Malcolm also slowly moved into made-to-measure tailoring , probably because of teddy boys coming in and asking for stuff to be made up . |
| 10 | In the nearest modern marketing has come to the skin-flintery of Ebenezer Scrooge , a growing number of American shopping malls have picked the Christmas season to ban the Salvation Army from ringing its bells and asking for money for its traditional Big Red Kettle collection boxes . |
| 11 | ‘ I worked for three years in the Collector of Taxes department , which was really just shuffling papers and asking for money . |
| 12 | Why is that getting pregnant and asking for maternity leave can be seen as a crime ? |
| 13 | In August 1923 Eliot had written to Alfred Kreymborg ( who published ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ in 1915 ) , responding enthusiastically to Kreymborg 's Puppet Plays , and asking for advice on manufacturing of puppets . |
| 14 | For anyone who is thinking of planting I would suggest visiting a local nursery which grows its own plants and asking for advice about planting times . |
| 15 | Mill says exactly what I just said in response of him that is if the people are prepared to accept these why what 's to stop them consulting and asking for advice about how they should cast their vote and so Mill later on gives a response to his own suggestion about plural voting in effect without realizing that what he 's done . |
| 16 | Next thing you know they 'll be trading in their cuban heels for a pair of comfy slippers , and asking for tea and biscuits on the rider . |
| 17 | Now of that hundred and twenty five thousand revenue spending which would be coming out of County Council to match what is likely to happen in the five B programme , most of that , most of that is on economic development activities , now the kind of way we can find that money without going to the authorities and asking for growth funding , because this Committee has not asked for any and that is not common in all the committees in the Council , is actually by finding it out of things like our monies , and other projects , actually funding it yourself as a Committee , funding the ability to draw in European money into Shropshire . |
| 18 | If there is no response after two such reminders a letter is sent to the general practitioner informing of non-response and asking for information . |
| 19 | Now , after the Fifth Army 's first abortive assaults on the Mort Homme , Falkenhayn wrote on March 30th to the Crown Prince , noting that ‘ the employment of four fresh divisions … had led to no successes ’ , and asking for information as to his future intent and expectations . |