Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] ask for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all , thanks to the Editor for asking for a short article from the unions ( soon to be united as Unison ) for the inaugural Highways Department News Sheet . |
| 2 | Also I mean er we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then picking it , instead of actually taking the whole thing because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been an exception in this entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much , er all three of you for coming points so clearly |
| 3 | Also I mean , we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then cherry picking it , instead of actually taking the whole , because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been accepted in its entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much er all three of you for coming . |
| 4 | He got the board to take the initiative in asking for a League inquiry , hoping that in return the sentence would be a light one . |
| 5 | One day , Joan had the brave notion of asking for an invitation — or rather inviting herself . |
| 6 | Have you ever heard a husband on the verge of asking for a divorce finding fault with his wife , picking a quarrel or blackening her name to others ? |
| 7 | He was transfer-listed at Pounds 150,000 last week after asking for a move and Trinity offered Gary Price in exchange . |
| 8 | On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew . |
| 9 | Garvey 's clarification requests depend on a contingency pair analysis in which the second speaker comments on the utterance of the first speaker by asking for a measure of clarification . |
| 10 | There is an underlying difficulty of principle in asking for a law of gravitation consistent with SR : SR applies to flat space–time while gravitational forces are a manifestation of its curvature . |
| 11 | A BID to ease mortgage misery by asking for a bigger share of Government cash has suffered a setback . |
| 12 | On his first visit to Washington in September , the Second Channel demonstrated his piety by asking for a rug to pray on on the Friday evening ; Craig Coy , wonderingly , lent him his gym towel . |