Example sentences of "[coord] ask [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After her marriage Signor Cantoni 's mother had seemed unable to bear a child so she took a large bunch of carnations to the Madonna and asked her for the gift of a baby . |
| 2 | At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship . |
| 3 | I believe she has even phoned an old school friend of mine whom she avowedly dislikes and asked him for the manuscript of a symphony we once composed together . |
| 4 | When you 've read it come and ask me for the disk and I 'll lend it to you . |
| 5 | Perhaps we would fling pride aside and ask someone for the price of a cup of tea , actually intending to spend it on that . |
| 6 | No , they wrote and ask you for the exact date of day I started getting ability allowance . |