Example sentences of "asking for more " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hope that woodworkers of all types will send in their wheezes , as readers are always asking for more tips . |
| 2 | Now is the time to consolidate your gains by asking for more walks and extra perks , as your sensible attitude will enhance your standing during this fruitful period . |
| 3 | He might just as well have said : ‘ It 's all very well asking for more money for the railways , but if the volume of rail freight were doubled , it would still be only a mere 16 per cent of the rail-and-road total . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm not asking for more than any other 22-year-old — just the same . ’ |
| 5 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 6 | Whenever you give clarification or provide information four times out of ten someone else will follow you by doing the same and three times out of ten someone else will follow you by asking for more . |
| 7 | One month later Allison wrote to Clark asking for more details about Clark 's work — this time on t-butyl hydroperoxide , another chemical known to produce free oxygen radicals . |
| 8 | But if not , a fifth barrier , both for new and more mature Christians , to asking for more of the Spirit is still fear of man , and fear of the supernatural . |
| 9 | The winner , Katie Bishop , 15 , cooked a special meal with an unusual carrot pudding that had the judges asking for more . |
| 10 | As soon as his manger is empty he carries it around in his teeth asking for more . |
| 11 | And now she 's seen Prince Harry safely off to boarding school , she 's asking for more . |
| 12 | If it is true he is on £4,000-a-week and is asking for more , Brian Clough is right — as usual — to say ‘ no ’ . |
| 13 | She makes a sort of crackling noise which I 've never been able to explain : it may be contentment — or perhaps she 's asking for more . |
| 14 | And the 1980s have seen a determined rejection of imported fashions , the British novelist or dramatist speaking to his people in the confident expectation that the world at large , too , will insist on taking notice and asking for more . |
| 15 | We hope that woodworkers of all types will send in their wheezes , as readers are always asking for more tips . |
| 16 | A week after the had asking for more , Oliver remained greater prisoner in the darken solitary room which he had been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of the board , but it appears that at first sight not unreasonable disclose that for a particular gentleman of white waistcoat . |
| 17 | You 're really getting through a terrific amount of stuff and you keep asking for more it 's great . |
| 18 | I did n't feel like asking for more details , because they were obviously bad . |
| 19 | Higher capacity than others : The capacity of family members to absorb punishment and come up asking for more is simply phenomenal . |
| 20 | We shall be asking for more details in Committee about who else will be involved and how they will discharge their duties . |
| 21 | After 12 months the relevant authorities are still asking for more copies of the plans that were submitted about nine months ago . |
| 22 | I ca n't for the love of me understand the leadership of all the unions that allowed , we do n't even get enough holidays of what they get on the continent , we should be asking for more , not taking them off us or putting it in October to celebrate Nelson and Trafalgar because I could n't give a monkey for 'em . |
| 23 | They 're simply asking for more money to spent with no concerns about the value for money , and surely it was the Conservatives who used to tell us ten or fifteen years ago , that you could n't judge the quality of a service by the amount of money spent on it . |
| 24 | I think in fact it 's a bit of a cheek for the Chief Constable to go to the Home Secretary here ev , Home Secretary again this year , asking for more officers , when he has n't recruited all the ones that he was given last year . |
| 25 | Eighteen months ago they would n't have been asking for more money |
| 26 | The hospital is asking for more money to clear the backlog . |
| 27 | Residents in Ansdale Road , Middlesbrough , have petitioned the council asking for more street lighting to try to reduce the problems associated with vandalism . |
| 28 | However , four goals in the last 23 minutes quietened the boos and whistles from a crowd which arrived with great expectations and feared they would go home asking for more , much more . |
| 29 | We wanted to compress that to Ms Green 's asking for more staff in her department and finance these measures . |