Example sentences of "[conj] ask for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did Master Ruthven go down to the kitchen or buttery or ask for any victuals to be sent up ? ’ asked Catesby . |
| 2 | It 's nothing , this is the way I deal with it , if I treat this job , if I go in to a shop or ask for any service I expect , you know , the same that I give , and basically speaking then I 'm pleased . |
| 3 | The right-wing coalition knows better than to ask for any help from the Greens . |
| 4 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 5 | I used to go to Orkney for to go and asked for some cardboard boxes only we call them pasteboard boxes . |
| 6 | Leonard could be depressive along with many other poets ( the psycho-endocrinological critique of poetry has yet to be written ! ) ; he could also be uplifting and assertive ; he could , indeed , write ‘ about something ’ to use Faulkner 's phrase from The Bear , and did so to the advantage of large numbers of people who gladly read , and asked for more . |
| 7 | She expressed a warm opinion of the piece and asked for more of her work . |
| 8 | I accepted that but , having in mind Sweden 's small population and great resources of iron and timber , thought it an untypical sort of country , and asked for another . |
| 9 | When he received a Mickey Mouse , he swelled triumphantly , and asked for another . |
| 10 | On May 13th , after days of heavy selling by the markets — and heavy buying by Spain 's central bank — the government suspended its obligation to defend the peseta , and asked for another realignment of the system . |
| 11 | He finished the beer and asked for another . |
| 12 | So she gave Jamie to a horse dealer called Liz Burt and asked for another in return . |
| 13 | Northallerton magistrates sentenced the 20-year-old to a total of seven months in a youth custody centre after he admitted two burglary charges and asked for another seven offences to be taken into consideration . |
| 14 | And the 1980s have seen a determined rejection of imported fashions , the British novelist or dramatist speaking to his people in the confident expectation that the world at large , too , will insist on taking notice and asking for more . |
| 15 | The Prosecution would point to the 1991 Currie Cup Final and ask for some evidence of the power of South Africa . |
| 16 | You must go to her and claim relationship with her , and ask for some help in our trouble . ’ |
| 17 | It may be necessary to return to the patient and ask for more details of symptoms and search for any important features that have been overlooked . |
| 18 | A counsel was held lots were who should walk up to the master after supper that evening and ask for more , it fell Oliver Twist |
| 19 | and ask for any help in doing his car do n't go to work or can he borrow this , just say no I 'm sorry you could n't help us and I 'm your sister so now I ca n't |
| 20 | The decision whether to ask for more money from the Home Office will be made by a special panel who meet on June 25 to discuss the issue , as well as deciding how to fund new security cameras for Warrington and police pay rises . |