Example sentences of "was asking [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nero wants you for the circus , he seems to have taken a fancy to you and was asking about the lanolin — say no more ! |
| 2 | ‘ I was asking about the health of your grandfather , someone I care about very much . |
| 3 | In fact , she was asking for no more than American colleges everywhere asked of their alumni , and many Americans had benefited from the Oxford system . |
| 4 | and another voice was asking for a priest . |
| 5 | On 22 June , when the Prime Minister was asking for a corps of at least 5,000 parachutists , the commando idea was moving in a number of directions . |
| 6 | Bob Haboldt , who showed a mixture of Italian , French , Dutch and Flemish works mostly priced at FFr 50–150,000 , sold four , but found collectors surprised by the FFr 500,000 ( £51,500 ; $89,700 ) he was asking for a very rare study of deer by Jan Brueghel the Elder and the FFr 400,000 ( £41,200 ; $71,750 ) he expected for a study of standing men by Pietro da Cortona . |
| 7 | But I must have done well the term before , or perhaps he was slacking , or both , because there we were together and Nigel as he then called himself was asking for a pound . |
| 8 | He said , ‘ She was asking for a divorce . ’ |
| 9 | He was asking for a fell-walking guide . |
| 10 | We had a motion which was put before Conference last year and it was carried and it was asking for a similar review to what 's being asked for this morning . |
| 11 | Leaning against a Cas. wall when Sister was on the bridge was asking for an explosion . |
| 12 | You would think that I was asking for the earth to be changed but I 'm not really . |
| 13 | The knack was asking at the moment of suspension by swinging one leg forward and the other back . |
| 14 | ‘ Ai n't that right Sandra ? ’ he was asking with an emphatic flourish , a wider grin . |
| 15 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
| 16 | ‘ Why , Mummy , ’ the child was asking in the bath , tickling her little bottom moving up and down on the sandy deposit at the bottom of the bath until Tony had nowhere for his legs , ‘ when the sky is blue very very blue all over and you look at it is it white ? ’ |