Example sentences of "[pron] had ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to my fifteenth birthday I had asked for train sets and cowboy suits for Xmas and birthdays , and until I was eighteen I spent Saturday afternoons making tea and sandwiches for my Mam and some girls from school as they talked endlessly of ‘ fellas ’ and clothes and make-up — subjects never of any interest to me . |
| 2 | Well , I had asked for it . |
| 3 | He was pleased nobody had asked for his passport . |
| 4 | This is not the case , though , if the proposed subject is outside the catchment area of school and university examinations , as Terry Lovell discovered when she offered to write a book on Gissing for a leftwing series , which had asked for one on Jane Austen . |
| 5 | Bodie scowled , angry at the way a family , which had asked for protection , could then make itself so vulnerable by not trusting the judgment of the men they had hired . |
| 6 | If she had asked for Ward Five he would have told her morning visiting in the public wards was forbidden and he might , because he was feeling benevolent , have called her love . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had asked for a test-tube baby because her fallopian tubes were irreversibly blocked . |
| 9 | Mr Elton attacked his wife after she had asked for a divorce . |
| 10 | ‘ When Jane told us she had asked for a divorce it was a complete shock . ’ |
| 11 | It was unusual for her to have been alone then , but she had asked for time to herself . |
| 12 | She had sensed that he believed she had asked for the locket , that she was guilty of abusing his father 's generosity . |
| 13 | To her great relief , however , Fabia subsequently discovered that she had asked for a quite delicious meal of venison with bacon , mushrooms and tomatoes . |
| 14 | He always pitied people who had to ask for information . |
| 15 | Compare this with a ‘ puzzle ’ structure used by the same authors with a similar age group of children who had asked for a ‘ horror mystery ’ drama . |
| 16 | They snatched them from my hands while the boy who had asked for bread asked again . |
| 17 | Ya'acov Friedler was interned in the women 's camp at Port Erin with his sister , who had asked for him and his brother to join her there . |
| 18 | She adored Elizabeth , this good kind soul who had asked for little in return . |
| 19 | If you wanted to buy an ordinary bulb , you had to ask for it specially . |
| 20 | There was no toilet paper in the cell , so you had to ask for it . |
| 21 | And even then er you had to ask for permission to stay out till ten . |
| 22 | It was fatal to be out alone after dark , one had asked for it . |
| 23 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 24 | No Met nor Notam information was displayed , and we had to ask for the Met before filing our flight-plan to Santiago . |
| 25 | Two-year-olds generally cots and , though we had asked for one in advance , we were provided with a single bed which we had to surround with cushions to make it safe . |
| 26 | In answer to our persistent questioning , he bravely confessed the truth we had asked for — that Leslie and his men , in spite of the fact that they were wearing uniform , might have been shot as franc-tireurs . |
| 27 | WE got so much that we had asked for from Norman Lamont yesterday that it might seem churlish not to give his Autumn Statement an unqualified welcome . |
| 28 | Their quotation was £12 for two pages , we had asked for a quote based on four , and although the letter promised a price and font list it was not enclosed . |
| 29 | We had asked for the additional cost of providing an extension of the present service to the Cuiken area of Penicuik . |
| 30 | The leader of the MPs ' delegation , Sir Rhodes Boyson , the former local government minister , said afterwards that they had asked for an extra £650m to offset the sums which some local councils will have to raise in poll tax to the pay their contribution to the nation-wide poll tax safety net . |