Example sentences of "[verb] ask for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel genuinely hostile to an undergraduate ( supposedly one of the best educated people in the country ) who writes asking for sponsorship for some project and who does not know how to begin or end his letter or how to spell the name of the person to whom he is appealing . |
| 2 | A man had rung asking for Mr Kennedy . |
| 3 | The Reagan administration has asked for $709.3 million for ballistic missile defence ( BMD ) for 1984 , and has proposed more than double that for 1985 . |
| 4 | Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarvayev has asked for compensation from Moscow for health damage in the region , and for an independent inquiry , with foreign experts , to study the ecological consequences . |
| 5 | The Scottish Office has asked for responses to the consultation document by 27 November . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Viennese police have found so many rare animals in the possession of eastern Europeans that a magistrate has asked for help from CITES in identifying where they come from . |
| 7 | Erm , are now in the process of following up to see if who has made er the switch to the new regime , and I have been approached by one project leader who has two programmers who refused to change , and has asked for help . |
| 8 | Bunter Soames , vastly amused , has asked for others — which he also promises to wear . |
| 9 | Mr McWhinney 's family has asked for donations in lieu of flowers to be made to the club 's runway repair fund . |
| 10 | They also include the rights of beneficiaries when any fiduciary owner is the registered proprietor ; the rights and interest of a buyer who has asked for registration of title in the name of a nominee ; and the right of a buyer whose contract has not been registered on the seller 's title . |
| 11 | François d'Aubert , the centrist vice-chairman of the French National Assembly 's finance committee has asked for details of the bank 's dealings with Mr Parretti . |
| 12 | Mr Pike has asked for details of a diesel tacho in your April issue . |
| 13 | Next month I 'm going to tab out a request from Mr Bob McGhee , of Basingstoke , who has asked for Don Rich 's solo from Buck Owens ' Love 's Gon na Live Here . |
| 14 | As a result , it has asked for £528 from Lothian Region for 1993/94 . |
| 15 | Other countries have used systems of this kind with success and the Government have concluded that the time has come to ask for powers to adopt a system of early release on licence in this country . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've come to ask for help , ’ he said . |
| 17 | As I 've started writing to ya now , I might as well ask you some stuff that I 've been dying to ask for ages . |
| 18 | You may need to ask for advice , or even have one or two dummy runs , but given time you can get there in the end . |
| 19 | When the process described by Erikson is successful , ‘ the community in turn feels ‘ recognised ’ by the individual who cares to ask for recognition ; it can , by the same token , feel deeply — and vengefully — rejected by the individual who does not seem to care . ’ |
| 20 | WILLIAMS is seen asking for assistance from LADY JONES and LORD DARNFORD . ] |
| 21 | In vain has Adrienne written asking for news from the North-East to be included in the last two issues : for we had nothing to report beyond our puny struggles against the mighty Aerobics phenomenon . |
| 22 | This had been one of the 150 organizations that had written asking for patronage when Diana became engaged , and had been turned down . |
| 23 | Callers of any sort were scarce at Four Winds , mostly people who came asking for directions or even a glass of water when the weather was hot . |
| 24 | It was because of her worsening rheumatism that she 'd asked for Ruth to come and help her this summer . |
| 25 | She 'd asked for warmth — and here it was and she did n't like it . |
| 26 | She 'd asked for time , had n't she ? |
| 27 | The council is also empowered to ask for details of any unusual part of the project to prove compliance with the Building Regulations , eg special foundations for building on doubtful ground . |
| 28 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 29 | I read that 10 players had threatened to ask for transfers if I stayed on … they were supposed to be polled by telephone by some members of the Board . |
| 30 | THE Great North Run is nearly upon us , and I am writing to ask for help in finding a runner who is prepared to run for DIAL UK , the National Association of Information and Advice Lines . |