Example sentences of "could ask for [art] " in BNC.

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1 Who could ask for a better weapon than that ?
2 I could ask for a trial , but I was not confident of the judges ' honesty .
3 By gaw , he 's a topper and ah would n't sell 'im for any money , No man could ask for a better friend . "
4 But you could ask for a special audit .
5 If there was general agreement , he could ask for a suspension of Anglo-Irish conference meetings from next month , beginning talks before the summer recess .
6 I suggested , as a very moderate compromise , that any aggrieved applicant could ask for a review of his or her file by the incumbent Chairman of the Bar .
7 If it were a cart then he could ask for a lift and go to the city where there was shelter and plenty to eat .
8 I began to see that I could ask for the things I needed .
9 Either side , or the jury , could ask for the tape itself to be played during the trial and the judge would almost always accede ; difficulties might arise where the tape contained objectionable or inadmissible evidence , for example , references to previous convictions , but these could usually be overcome .
10 Or you or you could ask for the the number of all the conference centres in
11 Anyway , you could ask for the prices to be faxed back to you , or even just posted .
12 To make the program more useful , it could ask for the names of the input and output files at " run time " .
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