Example sentences of "[prep] ask for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After asking for help from passers-by , they were eventually pointed in the right direction . |
| 2 | Like poor Annie , many people find that being in crisis is their only way of asking for love and concern . |
| 3 | You will find no happiness , for ultimately life does not allow you to get away with anything , but rather , it has an uncanny way of asking for payment when we least expect it . |
| 4 | The custom of asking for permission to marry has less significance nowadays ; it harks back to the time when a father had control over his unmarried daughter 's money until a husband came along . |
| 5 | Fear of asking for help |
| 6 | If we are brought up to think of asking for help as childish , and if our own requests for help have not been swiftly and cheerfully met , we are less likely to respond in a simple and positive way to demands . |
| 7 | Much as she dreaded the near embarrassment of asking for money , the West Bog and its drainage was the best and readiest solution to their problem . |
| 8 | ( The pecking of the spot is the chick 's signal method of asking for food : if the spot was on its parent 's , rather than a model bill , the chick would receive a meal . ) |
| 9 | ‘ Others have made the mistake of asking for respect for their traditions and languages and of claiming the human rights that are due to them — including the right of access to the mass media ’ . |
| 10 | It may be because people are not aware that these benefits exist ; they do not wish to ask for help while they can manage on what they have ; or they may be too proud to claim , thinking that it is like asking for charity . |
| 11 | Amid interruptions from the telephone and boys coming into to ask for help , he talked about the parish , which is the poorest in Los Angeles . |
| 12 | or a coronary is normal , and I think again , that stops people for asking for help because the they 're not sure whether it 's a depressed mood or an illness . |
| 13 | It is clearly undesirable to ask methods tutors to be less practical , but there is a case for asking for practicality to be embedded in social awareness . |
| 14 | Those thinking about asking for funding might find it useful to look at the SOED booklet referred to above . |
| 15 | ONE IS always a bit bashful about asking for blood tests on onself — no one likes to be thought of as a hypochondriac . |
| 16 | When buying your plane tickets it 's also worth asking for information relevant to your trip — many travel agencies produce fact sheets on the foreign destinations they go to . |
| 17 | In that first parliament of his , immediately after his coronation , he had refrained from asking for money , had even prided himself on his princely forbearance , and believed it had won him friends and trust . |
| 18 | Director Mike Cairns said having to pay for community care may mean some older people are deterred from asking for help . |
| 19 | As understanding is crucial in physics , the difficulty in asking for help leads to problems with work ; it is , as Chapter 6 will argue , a particular problem for women , who often feel isolated in the department . |
| 20 | However , in asking for finance for research , or trying to persuade an organisation they would benefit from your work , it is sometimes necessary to describe the work more in ‘ social problem ’ terms . |
| 21 | In asking for clarification , information or advice , you ask the rest of the meeting to help you and no one can think of that as presumptuous . |
| 22 | According to the local RCM representative , Erwin 's laziness consisted of taking advantage of his Jewish beliefs in asking for time off . |
| 23 | It was going even further , in asking for authority to accede to Ivanovitch 's demand that Yugoslavs " NOT in Austria " ( ie in Italy ) , " including Chetniks " ( such as the 11,000 under Damjanovitch who had surrendered on 3 May ) should also be handed over . |
| 24 | This may be on a sale or return agreement without asking for payment . |
| 25 | An alternative to asking for item after item is to ask , " What animals ( birds , fish , etc. ) do you have in your country ? " , or , " What different kinds of clothing do you wear ? " |
| 26 | The hostility that siblings show can therefore commence at a very young age : 2-year-olds become increasingly adept at asking for mother 's help in a sibling conflict and can be quite explicit about what the sibling has done to them . |
| 27 | He told the congregation hesitantly : ‘ We begin by acknowledging our own personal failings and by asking for forgiveness . |