Example sentences of "[was/were] asking for a [noun] " 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 | He said , ‘ She was asking for a divorce . ’ |
| 3 | and another voice was asking for a priest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On 22 June , when the Prime Minister was asking for a corps of at least 5,000 parachutists , the commando idea was moving in a number of directions . |