Example sentences of "[conj] ask [pers pn] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But she 'd bite her tongue off sooner than ask him for any favours . |
| 2 | As with values , it is probably best to assess your opponent 's objectives rather than to ask him for them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A surly man stepped from a trailer doorway and asked me for money . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A brave reporter thrust a microphone under his nose and asked him for his comments . |
| 9 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 10 | Thinking about this one morning in 1954 , I went along to the keeper of the laboratory chemical stores and asked him for something which was water-soluble and formed needle crystals . |
| 11 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I believe she has even phoned an old school friend of mine whom she avowedly dislikes and asked him for the manuscript of a symphony we once composed together . |
| 14 | Then went to the Citizen 's Advice Bureau ( CAB ) at Wembley , as my husband had suggested , and asked them for information about how to join a union . |
| 15 | To embroider the sampler , we turned to some multiple agencies and asked them for their recommendations of good value on a £1,000 booking for four people . |
| 16 | They were always touching each other ; they fucked the lecturers and asked them for money for drugs . |
| 17 | I moved some girls into the middle and asked them for their guesses . |
| 18 | Erm he wrote to Photo Gallery and asked them for er an exhibition date and they gave him one in nineteen ninety . |
| 19 | The mare 's breathing was heavy and distressed and she kept turning her head round to him as if asking him for help . |
| 20 | DEFINITION : Research is ringing someone up and asking them for other people 's names . |
| 21 | Mr Quarmby describes himself as going ‘ cap in hand to the recording companies and asking them for advance rental income ’ . |
| 22 | This is to do with drawing people into a situation and asking them for their thoughts and feelings . |
| 23 | One day in April , Horsley , Walsh and Everett spent the morning in Manchester meeting the Co-op insurance company and asking them for a £750,000 investment , before rushing straight round to the Council Economic Development Committee to pitch for another £500,000 . |
| 24 | Some of us were concerned about speaking to customers and asking them for their observations . |
| 25 | The consultation exercise involved supplying members of the Library Advisory Committee ( LAC ) with copies of our current list , and asking them for suggestions for cuts . |
| 26 | Tell a trusted friend — preferably an adult — and ask them for advice about what to do . |
| 27 | Talk to your church leader or youth leader and ask them for advice and prayer support . |
| 28 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 29 | Erm you can phone them up and ask them for a Yellow Pages listing and they and they 'll give at random a listing from the Yellow Pages in whatever area you ask for . |
| 30 | Position a different 6 people 5 metres away from the same wall and ask them for their estimates . |