Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] ask for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now of that hundred and twenty five thousand revenue spending which would be coming out of County Council to match what is likely to happen in the five B programme , most of that , most of that is on economic development activities , now the kind of way we can find that money without going to the authorities and asking for growth funding , because this Committee has not asked for any and that is not common in all the committees in the Council , is actually by finding it out of things like our monies , and other projects , actually funding it yourself as a Committee , funding the ability to draw in European money into Shropshire . |
| 2 | ‘ He has not asked for any help from us . |
| 3 | The vehicle seen in Panorama is in constant use by news teams and the BBC has now asked for another , which will be delivered in April . |
| 4 | He has never asked for any favours and , on the field , he 's never given any either . |
| 5 | However , four goals in the last 23 minutes quietened the boos and whistles from a crowd which arrived with great expectations and feared they would go home asking for more , much more . |
| 6 | Joaquim Lobato said angrily , ‘ I did not ask for that . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He did not ask for any special treatment . ’ |
| 8 | Moreover , when nineteenth-century feminists demanded equal education and employment opportunities for single women , they did not ask for any special consideration to be extended to women on account of their reproductive role . |
| 9 | I did not ask for more money — I was in Bayreuth at the time . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ For God 's sake , I did n't ask for all that . |
| 11 | Got a got a pair of twos there ee by heck ! for four and a pair is six well I think I 'll have I 'm afraid two eights , two o , two eights , two tens and then nine did n't ask for that but I had to throw a pair of twos away for that and go in there you go . |
| 12 | Well we did n't ask for that . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't ask for this , ’ she said . |
| 14 | They did n't ask for any money , they just wanted a good royalty and help with promotion . |
| 15 | I did n't ask for any of it . |
| 16 | I think it would be very helpful to the panel to know what proportion of that thirty six thousand is within the district , within the Greater York area , do n't ask for that to be done now , because it may well involve some difficult arithmetic , perhaps it 's tonight 's homework . |
| 17 | German Chancellor Helmut Kohl told them bluntly : ‘ Do n't ask for more money . |
| 18 | And traditionally , I find , British parents tend to erm say on the one hand we 'll let the school get on and do their professional job — I find it quite depressing they do n't ask for more say in the organisation , but they do demand , quite rightly , the right to criticise when things go wrong . |
| 19 | Hey do n't ask for any more right greedy bastards , I du n no . |
| 20 | I had not asked for that and , even if I had , my chances of obtaining them would have been zero . |
| 21 | It might have continued like that for me too , if I had not needed a chat with my local breastfeeding counsellor and realised she had not asked for any payment . |
| 22 | If the so-called specialist does not ask for this information then retreat rapidly and find someone else who does . |
| 23 | Higher capacity than others : The capacity of family members to absorb punishment and come up asking for more is simply phenomenal . |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't asked for any , and they have n't sent them . ’ |
| 25 | I have n't asked for any favours from you . ’ |
| 26 | The Minister will know that I and other Leicestershire Members from all parts of the House have continually asked for more officers to be allocated to Leicestershire . |
| 27 | The workforce at Swan Hunters have never asked for any special privileges , they 've always asked for a fair deal on a level playing field . |