Example sentences of "and [adv] ask for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a red light up , and he was stopped by a policeman as he reached the opposite pavement and duly asked for the appropriate number of marks . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We are not going to have any shooting trouble with them but they are tough bargainers and always ask for the whole earth , expecting maybe to get an acre . " |
| 4 | He wandered up to the logging camp on his eighteenth birthday and enthusiastically asked for a job . |
| 5 | He wanted something done about it and even asked for a move . |
| 6 | Throughout the dispute my technique was to go through the front door — I refused to be smuggled in — and then ask for a deputation of the demonstrators to come and talk to me . |
| 7 | 5.6.2 SUMMARISE AND THEN ASK FOR THE ORDER |
| 8 | Rachel was popular among the stall , always courteous and concerned and never asking for the impossible except with great charm and self-deprecation . |
| 9 | We do not wish to pre- judge this review and therefore ask for the composite to be referred . |