Example sentences of "[was/were] asking for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is partly that the teachers were asking for a depth of cataloguing , a level of retrieval , that is very expensive . |
| 2 | Virgin offered to improve the deal still further to a 75–25 split , but Miles Copeland , Sting 's manager , flatly refused , ostensibly because Virgin were asking for the length of the contract to be extended to include the publishing rights to more albums . |
| 3 | He said , ‘ She was asking for a divorce . ’ |
| 4 | and another voice was asking for a priest . |
| 5 | But I must have done well the term before , or perhaps he was slacking , or both , because there we were together and Nigel as he then called himself was asking for a pound . |
| 6 | Leaning against a Cas. wall when Sister was on the bridge was asking for an explosion . |
| 7 | You would think that I was asking for the earth to be changed but I 'm not really . |