Example sentences of "ask [pron] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met Jane Toler at a party , and , homing in on my angularity of form , she asked me to sit for her . |
| 2 | ‘ She also asked me to recount for her the circumstances leading up to the car crash in May 1968 in which poor Willy Morpurgo suffered brain damage . ’ |
| 3 | Er he 's gone to Barnsley , cos they asked me to ask for this , gone to Barnsley . |
| 4 | I made a great nuisance of myself and , in the end , they resorted to the traditional method of dealing with trouble-makers : they asked me to stand for my own ward at the next local government elections . |
| 5 | I could understand the term ‘ genetic engineering ’ — well , as long as nobody asked me to speak for a minute without hesitation or deviation — and I recognized ‘ DNA ’ , which was said to be the basic stuff of life . |
| 6 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 7 | The Silver Reed SK830 plus EC1 Pattern Controller we asked you to compete for , is the new fine gauge electronic machine which has been added to the range and it has a retail price ticket of almost £1,000 ! |
| 8 | Mass screening is not feasible , but targeting groups at high risk and asking them to attend for screening is perfectly plausible . |
| 9 | When James Gill of SPAG informed the County Council of the lack of planning permission for the lake , the council wrote to Mogul asking them to apply for planning permission to retain the lake . |
| 10 | Giving an account of it like this makes me feel as though you 're asking me to account for it , explain it for you . |
| 11 | I thought er that God wanted me to be a doctor and I did n't have a place to go to , I took my A levels having had five chances of places to be a doctor and everybody saying no , we do n't want you and erm I had everybody praying for me at church and quite miraculously at the end of the August , when I should start in the September , I had a phone call at half past ten at night from a surgeon at the London Hospital asking me to go for an interview the next day . |
| 12 | I have , therefore , been asked to repeat my request of 3 July asking you to arrange for the hedges to be trimmed as soon as possible . |
| 13 | ‘ For 10 minutes they attempted to engage Anthony in conversation before explicitly asking him to work for and provide information to them . |
| 14 | He 's been waiting up and down town asking us to vote for him , flipping heck |
| 15 | In 1850 she was noticed by the artist Walter Deverell , who asked her to sit for him and a group of young friends who were beginning to distinguish themselves as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . |
| 16 | A few days later before Anne went to work her mother asked her to go for bread . |
| 17 | Whilst Zborowski was still in the south of France Modigliani met Madame Zborowska in the street and asked her to pose for him . |
| 18 | Then she met Woody at a New York exhibition of Luc 's paintings — and he asked her to audition for Husbands and Wives . |
| 19 | She was delighted when I asked her to work for me , ’ Roman said , his voice warm with sympathy . |
| 20 | A man once asked him to pray for him . |
| 21 | But he so impressed bosses they asked him to apply for the more senior post of general marketing director . |
| 22 | Twice she asked him to stay for a cup of tea , but he refused . |
| 23 | You ask me to dig for stone . |
| 24 | Go and look for some of your friends , the Stewpot fan club , and ask them to play for your precious team . |
| 25 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 26 | And then J. D. O'Connor , who edits the Clarion Cry , had asked me to write for him — almost as a joke at first — about women 's lives . |
| 27 | " Matthew has asked me to work for him again . " |
| 28 | IF Eugene Kertsman asks you to go for a little jog to keep fit — watch out ! |
| 29 | But I 'm going to put the evidence in front of you and ask you to decide for yourselves . |
| 30 | we 've got a busload here sir , they 'll probably turn up in a cab and ask you to pay for it |