Example sentences of "[adv] ask for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Treasury Counsel announced that the Secretary of State for the Environment was now inclined to take the view that the statue was not part of the listed building , and so asked for an adjournment . |
| 2 | I am merely asking for an extension of the logic which is already so well known to Marsham street . |
| 3 | Gorbachev had apparently asked for the military to support him as Commander-in-Chief . |
| 4 | This suited the broad sweep of the first movement and the magical filigree of the second movement splendidly , but the finale perhaps asks for a degree of conscious showmanship . |
| 5 | However , if you merely ask for a repetition of the number , it still may not be clear if it is fourteen or forty . |
| 6 | My predecessor Patrick Jenkin had sensibly asked for an examination of the different ways that European countries financed their health care . |
| 7 | Having to laugh when everyone else does so as not to appear stupid , hoping no one would be shrewd enough to ask for an explanation . |
| 8 | ‘ If Rocastle feels he has no future at Leeds he can obviously ask for a transfer ’ |
| 9 | Partly as a result of this unexpected support , the band decided to release the Ukrainian Peel sessions on a 10-inch mini-LP , ‘ Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela ’ , no doubt most fans just asked for The Wedding Present 's Ukrainian album . |
| 10 | Last week , when drafts of the latest NIH report began to circulate , Dr Baltimore finally asked for the Cell paper to be retracted . |
| 11 | Half an hour later , he was back downstairs asking for the duty officer . |
| 12 | Just ask for a fiver . |
| 13 | You can apply for a card with a spending limit of £250 at any time while you 're a student — just ask for a copy of the leaflet ‘ Whilst you are there — Midland Access ’ at any of our branches . |
| 14 | He has already asked for a return match and when I have had a rest I shall try to accommodate him . ’ |
| 15 | He 'd already asked for a copy of the calendars of the Carmelite , Nicholas of Lyn . |
| 16 | The family has already asked for an investigation into her death by officials at Winterton psychiatric hospital , Sedgefield , from which she was discharged for weekend leave a day before she died on Sunday . |
| 17 | If it feels easy to raise fresh equity from shareholders then dividend pay-outs will be high , for managers can easily ask for the money back again . |
| 18 | But anyway we 've grasped the point that the general elections it 's really down to the prime minister to er er to ask for the dissolution of parliament and the prime minister will normally a will normally ask for the dissolution of parliament when he or she thinks they 've got the best chance of winning . |
| 19 | Always ask for a slice cut freshly from the salame and do not expect to get the true flavour from a pre-cut chunk on a plate . |
| 20 | You always ask for a pils . |
| 21 | Also always ask for the swarf to be blown out of cut sheets , and for the ends to be temporarily taped up to keep the sheets clean inside |
| 22 | So do send off the guarantee registration card ; the manufacturer usually asks for the return of the card as a term of his guarantee . |
| 23 | I 'd only once asked for a transfer and not because of any discontent or fall- out with the club . |
| 24 | John could easily believe it ; be remembered how , when he was walking the route of that particular line , he had once asked for a glass of water at a cottage and been charged eightpence for it . |
| 25 | He wandered up to the logging camp on his eighteenth birthday and enthusiastically asked for a job . |
| 26 | He also asked for a rule change to allow the cleaning of golf balls on the greens — as allowed at some clubs — but apparently not at Henley . |
| 27 | She also asked for a notice saying ‘ Please close the gate ’ . |
| 28 | Coun Wilson also asked for the identity of the companies that received the irregular payments . |
| 29 | In most professions it was suicide to admit to being a homosexual , and in some macho jobs like bricklaying it was probably asking for a brick to be dropped upon one 's head . |
| 30 | It also asks for the inter-relationship between land use and transport to be spelt out more clearly . |