Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] ask for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Flaubert 's niece asked for the traditional cast of the writer 's hand to be taken . |
| 4 | He predicts that McDonald 's will ask for a consent of ten p.p.m . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 7 | They met after care assistant Gillian , of Aintree , put an ad in a Forces ' newspaper asking for a pen-pal a year ago . |