Example sentences of "had asked for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mr Chris Spry , for the London Ambulance Service , said that the South West Thames regional health authority had asked for the army 's help . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her lawyers had asked for the sentence to be dropped in favour of community service because her health is failing . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Unfortunately Lord North saw the question in a different light , for the four dissenting proprietors had asked for the presentation of another candidate . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We had asked for the additional cost of providing an extension of the present service to the Cuiken area of Penicuik . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had sensed that he believed she had asked for the locket , that she was guilty of abusing his father 's generosity . |
| 15 | The judge said he had asked for the case to be re-listed because he had anxiety about the sentence he imposed . |
| 16 | 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 . |