Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] ask him for " in BNC.

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1 At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further .
2 When I ask him for telephone numbers of the people who know him best , he gives me the numbers of Deneuve , Shrimpton and Helvin before Jack Nicholson , Brian Clarke and Julian Schnabel .
3 When I asked him for his reaction , he sat hunched behind a table in his little palace , his head hanging down , his half-moon spectacles on the end of his nose .
4 But when I asked him for permission he just agreed .
5 When you ask him for leave to serve him on this mission he will welcome it as the solution to his anxieties , for even if you are only gone from Kinsai for a time , it will seem to him that you do not mean to impose upon his favour . ’
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