Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] ask for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations . |
| 2 | And so they asked for English counsel and ‘ furtherance ’ . |
| 3 | If I ask for extra to buy baby clothes , he says he does n't have the spare cash . |
| 4 | Alec and his colleagues believe the military would laugh at them if they asked for personal protection weapons . |
| 5 | If they ask for some cheese , you wo n't get it on the meat counter will you ? |
| 6 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 7 | I knew you 'd thought of something , and when you asked for extra milk it was n't hard to guess what it was . ’ |
| 8 | When you ask for some information from hard disk , the coaching controller grabs more information than you need from the same area of the disk . |
| 9 | Halfway round the ring when he asked for little more collection she offered no resistance and they moved as one into an easy working trot rising . |
| 10 | The Wisconsin state authorities feel that they have lost enough money on Steve Chen 's dreams — his failed Supercomputer Systems Inc received $75m in incentives from to establish its operations in Eau Claire , and they showed Chen the door when he asked for another $5m to get his fledgling SuperComputers International Inc off the ground in Eau Claire . |