Example sentences of "and ask [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After her marriage Signor Cantoni 's mother had seemed unable to bear a child so she took a large bunch of carnations to the Madonna and asked her for the gift of a baby . |
| 2 | At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship . |
| 3 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 4 | A surly man stepped from a trailer doorway and asked me for money . |
| 5 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 6 | A brave reporter thrust a microphone under his nose and asked him for his comments . |
| 7 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 8 | Thinking about this one morning in 1954 , I went along to the keeper of the laboratory chemical stores and asked him for something which was water-soluble and formed needle crystals . |
| 9 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
| 10 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 11 | I believe she has even phoned an old school friend of mine whom she avowedly dislikes and asked him for the manuscript of a symphony we once composed together . |
| 12 | Then went to the Citizen 's Advice Bureau ( CAB ) at Wembley , as my husband had suggested , and asked them for information about how to join a union . |
| 13 | To embroider the sampler , we turned to some multiple agencies and asked them for their recommendations of good value on a £1,000 booking for four people . |
| 14 | They were always touching each other ; they fucked the lecturers and asked them for money for drugs . |
| 15 | I moved some girls into the middle and asked them for their guesses . |
| 16 | Erm he wrote to Photo Gallery and asked them for er an exhibition date and they gave him one in nineteen ninety . |
| 17 | DEFINITION : Research is ringing someone up and asking them for other people 's names . |
| 18 | Mr Quarmby describes himself as going ‘ cap in hand to the recording companies and asking them for advance rental income ’ . |
| 19 | This is to do with drawing people into a situation and asking them for their thoughts and feelings . |
| 20 | One day in April , Horsley , Walsh and Everett spent the morning in Manchester meeting the Co-op insurance company and asking them for a £750,000 investment , before rushing straight round to the Council Economic Development Committee to pitch for another £500,000 . |
| 21 | Some of us were concerned about speaking to customers and asking them for their observations . |
| 22 | The consultation exercise involved supplying members of the Library Advisory Committee ( LAC ) with copies of our current list , and asking them for suggestions for cuts . |
| 23 | Tell a trusted friend — preferably an adult — and ask them for advice about what to do . |
| 24 | Talk to your church leader or youth leader and ask them for advice and prayer support . |
| 25 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 26 | Erm you can phone them up and ask them for a Yellow Pages listing and they and they 'll give at random a listing from the Yellow Pages in whatever area you ask for . |
| 27 | Position a different 6 people 5 metres away from the same wall and ask them for their estimates . |
| 28 | so you can go to them and ask them for advice and they ca n't give it , because there 's not that link back to where you know |
| 29 | erm I would suggest that anybody who 's really erm concerned in the way you were can either approach their local Education Authority and ask them for some kind of information on this . |
| 30 | Daisy was screwing up her courage to accost Ricky and ask him for a drink after church when the Vicar launched into the final prayer about being made flesh , and she suddenly remembered the vast ox heart cooking in the oven for Ethel , which would burn dry if it was n't taken out , so she belted home . |