Example sentences of "[verb] be asking for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The one who suffers is asking for help .
2 Trying to interrogate officers of the Grand Army would have been asking for trouble .
3 He would have liked to have watched it from the public gallery ; but that would have been asking for trouble .
4 Motion two seven nine as the General Secretary has indicated is asking for reference .
5 And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there .
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