Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] ask for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all , thanks to the Editor for asking for a short article from the unions ( soon to be united as Unison ) for the inaugural Highways Department News Sheet . |
| 2 | Also I mean er we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then picking it , instead of actually taking the whole thing because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been an exception in this entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much , er all three of you for coming points so clearly |
| 3 | Also I mean , we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then cherry picking it , instead of actually taking the whole , because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been accepted in its entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much er all three of you for coming . |
| 4 | He got the board to take the initiative in asking for a League inquiry , hoping that in return the sentence would be a light one . |
| 5 | At the tiny station of Plowden an angry old woman asked whether we had permission to park our car in the yard , so I did n't add to her troubles by asking for a ticket to Ludlow , as I had intended , but drove on to Marshbrook where the porter was more kindly . ’ |
| 6 | One day , Joan had the brave notion of asking for an invitation — or rather inviting herself . |
| 7 | Have you ever heard a husband on the verge of asking for a divorce finding fault with his wife , picking a quarrel or blackening her name to others ? |
| 8 | The women were not fair and just , even towards their husbands , ( they tested their husbands ' bonds by asking for the rings ) . |
| 9 | He was transfer-listed at Pounds 150,000 last week after asking for a move and Trinity offered Gary Price in exchange . |
| 10 | Hall then wrote to Palmerston , on 20th March , only one week after asking for the designs , saying that he would not include Donaldson as I think it very doubtful whether the new Department will be proceeded with , as I hope the Downing Street improvement will be carried out' , and two days later The Saturday Review in an article on the competition also suggested that the War Department should be moved to the Downing Street area . |
| 11 | Stopping people by asking for the time or change is a favourite mugging trick — especially when there is more than one attacker . |
| 12 | On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew . |
| 13 | Garvey 's clarification requests depend on a contingency pair analysis in which the second speaker comments on the utterance of the first speaker by asking for a measure of clarification . |
| 14 | In some cases , especially among people of higher status , the letter is regarded as a more polite way of asking for the interview and it helps differentiate the interviewer , when he or she calls , from marauding salesmen . |
| 15 | There is an underlying difficulty of principle in asking for a law of gravitation consistent with SR : SR applies to flat space–time while gravitational forces are a manifestation of its curvature . |
| 16 | A BID to ease mortgage misery by asking for a bigger share of Government cash has suffered a setback . |
| 17 | The £172,000 prop failed to appear for Leeds on Sunday , and yesterday confirmed his disenchantment at Headingley by asking for a move . |
| 18 | Well , in the in the question of I M R O as far as it 's erm occupational pension scheme members are concerned , er there 's no there 's no compensation responsibility and I think that that means that you get no , no whistle blowing and in I mean there 's , we 've got , I mean one of the points that we , we heard of just last evening was that one of the of the banks involved ended up er in its arrangements with Maxwell of asking for a hundred and sixty per cent of shares for every hundred per cent of loans that it made to Maxwell . |
| 19 | On his first visit to Washington in September , the Second Channel demonstrated his piety by asking for a rug to pray on on the Friday evening ; Craig Coy , wonderingly , lent him his gym towel . |