Example sentences of "have ask for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarvayev has asked for compensation from Moscow for health damage in the region , and for an independent inquiry , with foreign experts , to study the ecological consequences .
2 Meanwhile , Viennese police have found so many rare animals in the possession of eastern Europeans that a magistrate has asked for help from CITES in identifying where they come from .
3 Erm , are now in the process of following up to see if who has made er the switch to the new regime , and I have been approached by one project leader who has two programmers who refused to change , and has asked for help .
4 They also include the rights of beneficiaries when any fiduciary owner is the registered proprietor ; the rights and interest of a buyer who has asked for registration of title in the name of a nominee ; and the right of a buyer whose contract has not been registered on the seller 's title .
5 She 'd asked for warmth — and here it was and she did n't like it .
6 She 'd asked for time , had n't she ?
7 I believe that the opposition should have insisted on having a vote on a motion in which the government could have asked for support , and we would have put down an amendment saying that we thought that sanctions should have been given longer .
8 He could have asked for time off , she reflected , and would probably have been given it , but he was just not assertive enough .
9 The entire proceedings , including questions which the data collector may have asked for clarification during the search , were recorded on a sound recorder .
10 The four first-year women at B subverted this by swapping lab books ; Marie said , ‘ We 're not meant to , but we do ’ — as if there were some shame attached to having to ask for help .
11 In this co-operative situation , the students often help each other solve simple problems about terminal operation etc without having to ask for advice from a teacher .
12 I might have to ask for help with that as well . ’
13 ‘ I 'm the head of the oldest branch of the family and a noble family like ours should n't have to ask for help . ’
14 In 1889 a newly formed officers ' union , the Certificated Officers ' Union of Great Britain and Ireland , had asked for assistance from the NAS&FU in developing its organisation in return for an agreement that its members would refuse to employ non-union members .
15 And they had asked for compensation : so not war-widows ' pensions , in any case readily forthcoming in the Libyan welfare system , but perhaps bloodwealth , that compensation exchanged between groups to ensure peace between them .
16 The sentences were lighter than had been generally expected ; the military prosecutor on July 14 had asked for life sentences rather than death sentences ( as sought in June ) .
17 I had discussed the problems of insider analysis with him at a 1988 Police Conference , where he described how , on return to his force after his undergraduate degree , he had asked for permission to publish research material .
18 Britannia said he had asked for permission to see the flight deck and apparently made the threat while casually chatting to the captain .
19 Cripps had asked for permission to appeal against his expulsion .
20 Bodie scowled , angry at the way a family , which had asked for protection , could then make itself so vulnerable by not trusting the judgment of the men they had hired .
21 After he had sent off this AC/189 , Gen McCreery took steps to deal with the second signal he had received from Gen Keightley that morning , the 0.413 in which Keightley had reported in more detail on the imminent arrival in Austria of the 300,000 German and 200,000 Croat troops , and had asked for authorization to accept the surrender of these forces as " formed bodies " .
22 They snatched them from my hands while the boy who had asked for bread asked again .
23 Lessingham had refused whisky but had asked for wine .
24 They had asked for stationery and the medals that you know .
25 In the interval he seemed particularly cheerful and had asked for news about the Bishop 's Castle Railway
26 The laundry women and the scrubbers had asked for dinner to be provided but the committee felt that ‘ the wages of these employees were quite adequate ’ and the application was rejected .
27 It was unusual for her to have been alone then , but she had asked for time to herself .
28 Mr Meyer said after a three-day meeting with leaders of Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi 's conservative Inkatha party that they had asked for time to consult party officials before the start of the planning conference .
29 Prior to my fifteenth birthday I had asked for train sets and cowboy suits for Xmas and birthdays , and until I was eighteen I spent Saturday afternoons making tea and sandwiches for my Mam and some girls from school as they talked endlessly of ‘ fellas ’ and clothes and make-up — subjects never of any interest to me .
30 And even then er you had to ask for permission to stay out till ten .
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