Example sentences of "we ask for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To involve people in Billy Graham Crusades we asked for a specific and limited commitment , something that people understood and could accept : a prayer meeting in their home once a week , for five weeks only ; giving a monthly gift to the Crusade , for six months only . |
| 2 | We asked for a lament in verse or a prose epitaph for Punch |
| 3 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
| 4 | Finally we asked for a change in the wording of supplementary benefit law which would abolish the term ‘ cohabitation ’ , with its sexual connotations , and substitute what seemed the more decent and objective phrase , ‘ living together as husband and wife ’ . |
| 5 | In the first place , we asked for a salary rise , a reduction in land rents and more fertile land because usually the owners round there would rent us plots which were n't good for anything . |
| 6 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 7 | When we asked for a script from that side from the beginning , it did n't come . |
| 8 | Yes , on page three , one twenty , chair , we asked for a date , the date of that conference is the thirteenth and fourteenth of December . |
| 9 | And er she wanted er you know she has visions of us filling the streets of from to with banners waving and the we asked for no banners in the first rally we had back in October because we did n't want it to be seen as some thing that had you know big sort of take over and everybody you know the Communist Party and the language people and er all the different factions being able to wave their banners you know , We support the Blaenau quarry men . |
| 10 | The bemused Parisians did n't know what the fuck we were on about when we asked for the ‘ Adidas Centre ’ in several differing French accents . |
| 11 | The reason we asked for the figures is to get a ball park idea . |
| 12 | all that 's been disclosed is one as far as I know , erm your Lordship can see that I at some stage need to have a look at them , er before I complete in any way so I can cross examine Mr er my Lord may I just say this , on the seventeenth of November , that 's two days ago , we asked for the documents of the necessary twelve M P's two days ago |
| 13 | We asked for an extra day , and that was fine . |
| 14 | And we asked for an extra ten days . |
| 15 | Are we asking for the experimentally and/or theoretically impossible ? |
| 16 | We ask for a plant 's eye view of life and death in a sward and hope ultimately to be able to collect these reductionist observations into statements about the population , the species or even possibly the community . |
| 17 | Now I think , er and I 'm sure that Mrs will , I 've I 've got other information as well , that we could , I , I , I 'd like to recommend that we had an on going petition which could be in Welfare Rights , the Town Hall , The Libraries , but there 's no , I do n't think there 's an opposition to such a thing , whereby we ask for a P D S A clinic in Harlow , I 'm sure there 's room round where they were sit , sited before , and I do n't know , you know , I 'd like to know what Mrs 's thinks , also I 've got information er , a , following lots of phone calls erm there is an organisation called The Blue Cross , they have a clinic in Victoria and they 're , they have a head office in Oxford and they will help if they know the name of the vet and have the invoice and I 'm afraid it 's tested , but they will help pensioner 's and other low paid people to meet there bill 's , so that 's another outcome , while were doing the petition . |
| 18 | The only time a board memorandum might be contemplated is where the Information Memorandum includes forward projections ( typically seeking US buyers ) and we ask for a letter of representation ( see 1103.4 ) . |
| 19 | Erm , and I feel very strongly , and I urge members to consider that we should support this as a matter of principle , to help er , that group of our society , I me , I was going to suggest an amendment that we ask for the average age of this council erm , |
| 20 | Now Lord we ask that the peace that you promise that passes our understanding will keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and in its Son , your Son , our Saviour Jesus Christ and we ask for the blessing of you , of the Father upon us , as we continue to serve in your name . |
| 21 | But that that we ask for an exploration of the feasibility of widening the use of homes into nursing care , very sheltered accommodation , apartment style accommodation etcetera . |
| 22 | could we ask for a site meeting with them ? |
| 23 | Some of us needed to go out to the lavatory , and all of us asked for a wash . |