Example sentences of "asked [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’ |
| 2 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 3 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 4 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 5 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 6 | Then I felt a pressure on my arm and a soft female voice asked me for a light . |
| 7 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , come on , that 's why you asked me for a drink . |
| 9 | He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver . |
| 10 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 11 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 12 | When they arrived at Auckland Alexander asked them for the silver and his Presence was such that they did not dare to tell him that they had no silver , so Joan said that it was ‘ in the bank ’ . |
| 13 | Which was good news for START ( Skin Treatment and Research Trust ) as we also asked you for a donation to help START in their research into replacement skin for series skin problems . |
| 14 | We asked you for a letter written by a father to his son admitting that he has some embarrassing or socially undesirable condition . |
| 15 | We asked you for a diatribe in verse from Neil Kinnock against the Tory press , the short-sighted public , or anyone or anything else he might be against at the moment . |
| 16 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 17 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 18 | Just as Debbie was about to wind up the window , he suddenly asked her for a lift , saying he only lived 5 minutes down the road and could she drop him on her way ? |
| 19 | When he failed to persuade her to cancel it , he asked her for a date — and romance blossomed . |
| 20 | ‘ What 's — the matter this morning ? ’ she said , in the voice she had used when he asked her for an off-games note . |
| 21 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 22 | A man in rags asked her for the price of a cup of tea . |
| 23 | Leo asked her for the second time . |
| 24 | After her marriage Signor Cantoni 's mother had seemed unable to bear a child so she took a large bunch of carnations to the Madonna and asked her for the gift of a baby . |
| 25 | At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship . |
| 26 | So when Jane asked him for a loan , he snapped back : ‘ I think my first duty is to look after myself ! ’ |
| 27 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 28 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
| 29 | In all the years Francis and I were married I never asked him for a cent . |
| 30 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |