Example sentences of "been asking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 2 | Trying to interrogate officers of the Grand Army would have been asking for trouble . |
| 3 | ‘ A military gentleman has n't been asking for me , has he ? |
| 4 | Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now . |
| 5 | She 's been asking for you , she feels terribly guilty about the baby . ’ |
| 6 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 7 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years . |
| 8 | This is what goats have been asking for in the their prayers . |
| 9 | They had undoubtedly been asking for trouble . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's been asking for you . ’ |
| 11 | Erm it 's an exercise that you 've been asking for . |
| 12 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 13 | He would have liked to have watched it from the public gallery ; but that would have been asking for trouble . |
| 14 | ‘ The chief ‘ s been asking for you for some time , Mr Wycliffe . ’ |
| 15 | Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him . |
| 16 | He certainly seems to have been asking for something , if not something quite as drastic as he got . |
| 17 | Actually , Becky 's been asking for you , Rourke . |
| 18 | As clerk to the local Parish Council I should like to point out that Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have been asking for a footpath along this stretch of highway for the last twenty years . |
| 19 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 20 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 21 | Eighteen months ago they would n't have been asking for more money |
| 22 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
| 23 | Your wife 's been asking for you — ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We have been asking for this specialist help at the Memorial hospital for a long time now , but there has been no movement from the health authority over this matter . ’ |
| 25 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 26 | Cos they have n't , they , they 've been asking for |
| 27 | But we 've been asking during this programme will the real John Major please stand up . |
| 28 | Neither Quasp nor Blast exist , although we 've heard that enough worried Mancs have been asking about their location , wondering why they had n't yet heard about them . |
| 29 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 30 | Other people had been asking about Vecchi , too . |