Example sentences of "asks for [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court decided that victims of art thefts should be protected against the usual requirement in civil cases that the owner must make some effort to recover stolen goods within three years ; it ruled that the clock does not start ticking for the statute of limitations until the victim locates the stolen artworks and asks for their return . |
| 2 | The teacher as the Mayor asks for their help . |
| 3 | That is , I think , the task which the Home Secretary expects judges to perform when he asks for their advice on the requirements of retribution and deterrence , and the task which the judges do perform . |
| 4 | In example 4 , she involved them in her use of a book for instruction , and asks for their suggestions to solve her ‘ problems ’ . |
| 5 | Whereupon Judah asks for her favours , for which she takes his signet , cord and staff as a pledge for payment — so that , when pregnant , she is able to prove that he is the father of the child and so legitimize her twins and perpetuate the line of her husband . |
| 6 | ‘ If Artai asks for her hand — ’ he began delicately . |
| 7 | NOW NORSK DATA ASKS FOR ITS OSLO LISTING TO BE CANCELLED FOR TWO MONTHS |
| 8 | He asks for his glasses , I hand them to him . |
| 9 | On the historical side , the most important acquisition was a letter of Mary Queen of Scots to the Earl of Leicester , 1567 , in which she asks for his assistance in promoting a good relationship between her and Queen Elizabeth . |
| 10 | There survives a copy of a letter sent to a priest Ælf. , almost certainly Ælfwine , which says that none of the royal councils are hidden from him , and asks for his intercession with the queen so that the writer might be given a fishery . |
| 11 | When you or your travel agent asks for your holiday booking to be confirmed , we allocate your chosen holiday to you and give confirmation of the booking at that moment . |
| 12 | This is usually the time of year she asks for my subscription to the Church of England Orphans and I wonder if she has forgotten me . |
| 13 | He asks for our opinions on a leggy model who 's draped over a sunlit verandah . |