Example sentences of "[noun] 's [noun] ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've even had a letter from the President 's office asking for your date of return . |
| 2 | USL 's suit asks for unspecified compensatory , treble and punitive damages as well as ‘ an accounting and disgorgement of BSDI 's profits derived as a result of its wrongful acts … |
| 3 | He replied that it was the Reporter 's job to ask for one . |
| 4 | Flaubert 's niece asked for the traditional cast of the writer 's hand to be taken . |
| 5 | Lord Denning concluded that the proposition did not apply in this case and that there were reasons which a reasonable minister could entertain and so there was no ground on which the court could interfere with the minister 's decision to ask for a ballot order . |
| 6 | But the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority has introduced a private member 's bill asking for a ten-year extension of its powers to reclaim Seal Sands . |
| 7 | Thereafter , whenever Ferdinand 's armies asked for quarter , they were likely to receive ‘ Magdeburg quarter ’ . |
| 8 | He predicts that McDonald 's will ask for a consent of ten p.p.m . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ borrows one section from Jimi Hendrix 's ‘ 3rd Stone From The Sun ’ ( Hendrix 's estate asked for an ‘ inspiration ’ credit rather than money , apparently because they 're most keen for people to be directed to his music ) . |
| 10 | When they arrived home , Liz quickly wrote to the curator of the castle 's museum to ask for a pattern of the dress , only to be told that it had been copied from an 1898 issue of the London Illustrated News . |