Example sentences of "[vb infin] ask for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Never touch someone who is angry , and do n't hesitate to ask for help . |
| 3 | He would not dare ask for money ; instead it would be up to the gentleman to raise the matter and to give payment when he deemed suitable . |
| 4 | Nor did she dare ask for privacy , because to do so would look as if she had something to hide — which in fact she did . |
| 5 | I believe that the opposition should have insisted on having a vote on a motion in which the government could have asked for support , and we would have put down an amendment saying that we thought that sanctions should have been given longer . |
| 6 | He replied that there was n't , but that I should have asked for Operations when I got to Porto . |
| 7 | Charles II found land grants very convenient ; he could give them to people who at the beginning of the century would have asked for monopolies and he could feel confident that these grants would not rouse the hostility in England that monopolies had caused . |
| 8 | He could have asked for time off , she reflected , and would probably have been given it , but he was just not assertive enough . |
| 9 | ‘ You would not have asked for Lina unless you liked the old lady . ’ |
| 10 | A report is aimed at a particular reader who is expecting and may have asked for facts , conclusions and recommendations . |
| 11 | The entire proceedings , including questions which the data collector may have asked for clarification during the search , were recorded on a sound recorder . |
| 12 | When it was too late and Nails had had time to cool down , he realised he should have asked for Mr Bean or even Biddy or Nutty 's dad to be contacted . |
| 13 | He had phoned her at Milton Buildings , saying that he had a routine enquiry to make about the Datsun , would have asked for Mr Marius Steen but , owing to the recent regrettable happening , wondered if she could help . |
| 14 | He he he must have asked for Mr . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I might have to ask for help with that as well . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm the head of the oldest branch of the family and a noble family like ours should n't have to ask for help . ’ |
| 18 | Okay now at this stage you do n't normally have to ask for volunteers for the first group because it usually sort of role then off they go . |
| 19 | And in no time at all , I did n't have to ask for jobs , I 'd got more than I could do , you know and er I was still , very well taken care of in the shop . |
| 20 | Erm and then after the , the greeting you went , the actual erm way that you went was statement of purpose and then you did actually start asking for referrals , you started but then you did n't actually follow anything up , you started the script of referrals but you did n't actually follow it up again with anything . |
| 21 | So a wild horse will learn to ask for food in the same way as a domestic horse that it may be stabled with , and older foals learn to copy their mothers , and demand their oats with the same imperious neigh . |