Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] asking for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virgin offered to improve the deal still further to a 75–25 split , but Miles Copeland , Sting 's manager , flatly refused , ostensibly because Virgin were asking for the length of the contract to be extended to include the publishing rights to more albums . |
| 2 | Leaning against a Cas. wall when Sister was on the bridge was asking for an explosion . |
| 3 | It is partly that the teachers were asking for a depth of cataloguing , a level of retrieval , that is very expensive . |
| 4 | and another voice was asking for a priest . |
| 5 | On 22 June , when the Prime Minister was asking for a corps of at least 5,000 parachutists , the commando idea was moving in a number of directions . |