Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] ask for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd like that dance you asked for earlier . ’ |
| 2 | Each night she spoke to a waiter to order a meal ; each morning she asked for boiled rather than scrambled eggs for breakfast . |
| 3 | At the outset we asked for more help from the congregation . |
| 4 | At the quarter marker he asked for canter and got extended trot . |
| 5 | Right , that 's the end of that then , so let's move on to the projected sales reports I asked for last time . |
| 6 | I wanted to find a better job , but for a factory you need to have finished school and in the coffee processing industries they ask for ninth grade . |
| 7 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 8 | In his note he asked for medical help — some vitamins , eye-drops , ‘ as I ca n't go out ’ — and for some money . |