Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lebanese Government appealed to the United States , and King Hussein of Jordan invoked his long-standing friendship with Britain to ask for her help . |
| 2 | The council can negotiate with the applicant in advance to ask for changes to the scheme and these can result in new drawings being submitted . |
| 3 | Vinoba in his pilgrimages around India asking for land to be distributed to the poor said , ‘ I myself went one day to the temple of Deogar , but the priests beat me because I brought my brothers , the pariahs ( outcastes ) there . |
| 4 | The Prince of Wales asked for help |
| 5 | Go into any church in a poor area and you 're likely to find candles lit before the statue of Mary and little messages on scraps of paper asking for her help . |
| 6 | In May 1967 the mayor ridiculed a Nationalist proposal to submit a draft memorial to the Ministry of Development asking for an extension . |
| 7 | The Ministry of Supply asked for any kind of bone except the backbone of a kipper . |
| 8 | 47% of families asking for help from the Family Welfare Association did not have enough money left to feed themselves . |
| 9 | The 1987 Assembly of the All Africa Conference of Churches asked for opportunities for Church leaders to study so that they can cope with problems cropping up everywhere . |
| 10 | Dr Newman was seeing five or six people each surgery with the same symptoms , and ‘ the pharmacist reported a flood of people asking for remedies ’ . |
| 11 | You 'd do it if you were on a bank executive and you said well only five percent of people ask for independent advice , why do we bother with all that lot ? |
| 12 | Muirend Avenue and Viewfield Road A letter from Councillor Fraser to the Director of Highways asking for dates and details of the new traffic management scheme . |
| 13 | Muirend Avenue and Viewfield Road A letter from Councillor Fraser to the Director of Highways asking for dates and details of the new traffic management scheme . |
| 14 | The questionnaire addressed to the Head of Department asked for information under five headings : |
| 15 | The ethnic Albanians of Kosovo asked for EC recognition of an independent Kosovo on Dec. 23 . |
| 16 | ‘ It is a sign of weakness to ask for help . ’ |
| 17 | Chris Nicholls from Plymouth asked for a Turbo The Tortoise infinite lives poke , so thanks go to W Keenan from Tyne and Wear for his/her help . |
| 18 | I I have to say the top earners of course ask for those further away . |
| 19 | News on Sunday asked for money to produce a dummy newspaper , which would then be market-researched , and the results wrapped into a feasibility study . |
| 20 | The current clampdown on drinking and driving has allowed people without embarrassment to ask for soft drinks at functions and market forces have led to an influx of low-alcohol wines and beers . |
| 21 | Only two weeks ago , Hendry sent a plea to Roxburgh asking for his chance at the highest level . |
| 22 | Firstly , they could send requests to Paris asking for the abolition or limitation of the judicial control of the Parlement in Paris over the duchy 's courts . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State asked for the Committee 's comments . |
| 24 | To add to this demoralising sense of isolation , the tenacious curtain of smoke from the bombardment meant that the front line frequently could not see the supporting troops behind ; nor , worse still , could their rockets of supplication asking for the artillery to bring down a barrage , or cease shelling their own positions , be seen at the rear . |
| 25 | We agree that the rate of refusal by relatives and the incidence of failure to ask for organs should be minimised . |
| 26 | The working party has continued to monitor the progress of the Bill and wrote to the Secretary of State in January asking for clarification of the Government 's policy on charging and access rail freight users . |
| 27 | Reports suggested that he also took a message from Walesa asking for approval for the sacking of Finance Minister Lescek Balcerowicz , the architect of Poland 's " shock therapy " free-market economic programme . |
| 28 | ‘ Here we have Wren Boys who dress up and go from door to door asking for money , every St Stephen 's Day , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Only querulous pupils and awkward governors at interviews asked for some justification for studying it . |
| 30 | We are making sure that in future , courts will have much better information about people asking for bail . |