Example sentences of "ask [prep] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for more work — anything to keep my mind occupied . |
| 2 | At the outset we asked for more help from the congregation . |
| 3 | I asked for more money because of Zadak : I wanted to give him money for rain . |
| 4 | If I analyse the bosses I 've worked for , the ones who irritated me the most were the ones who were indecisive and who constantly asked for more information just to delay making a decision . |
| 5 | The US Federal Trade Commission is reviewing a new staff report on the anti-trust allegations against Microsoft Corp , but a decision on the matter probably is still weeks away , lawyers familiar with the case told the Wall Street Journal : with a two-to-two vote in February , the commission did n't accept staff recommendations to seek an injunction preventing the company from using its market power to engage in allegedly unfair competitive practices ; after the tied vote , the commissioners asked for more information in an effort to resolve the deadlock ; the status report , which was delivered to commissioners last week , provides additional support for the staff 's call for action . |
| 6 | And when I say I asked for more polenta , you will know that we were dealing with an intake situation of Road to Damascus proportions . |
| 7 | Magistrates adjourned the hearing until later today after a solicitor asked for more time to consult his clients . |
| 8 | Well , so long as no one tells Phena , everything should be all right , should n't it ? ’ she asked with more hope than expectation . |
| 9 | He might just as well have said : ‘ It 's all very well asking for more money for the railways , but if the volume of rail freight were doubled , it would still be only a mere 16 per cent of the rail-and-road total . ’ |
| 10 | They 're simply asking for more money to spent with no concerns about the value for money , and surely it was the Conservatives who used to tell us ten or fifteen years ago , that you could n't judge the quality of a service by the amount of money spent on it . |
| 11 | Eighteen months ago they would n't have been asking for more money |
| 12 | The hospital is asking for more money to clear the backlog . |
| 13 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 14 | Residents in Ansdale Road , Middlesbrough , have petitioned the council asking for more street lighting to try to reduce the problems associated with vandalism . |
| 15 | Then , once a week , Rivera asks for more information on your behalf . |
| 16 | Russia asks for more time to phase out ozone depleters |
| 17 | About fish , a matter of great symbolic and economic importance in Norway , the government bluntly says that if the EC asks for more fishing rights in Norwegian waters there will be no question of Norway joining . |
| 18 | They 'd asked for more space , as part of the head office refurbishment , but this was ridiculous ! |
| 19 | In its evidence to the Ashby Committee , the WEA had asked for more grant-aid to finance ‘ a considerable increase ’ in the number of full-time staff . |
| 20 | We have occasionally been asked for more news of , and items of particular interest to , UCN and external graduates . |
| 21 | Many readers of the first edition of The Birmingham Magazine have asked for more information about current courses ran by the University . |
| 22 | Cornwall County Council and the National Rivers Authority have asked for more information but have been refused by the MOD on the grounds that there is insufficient evidence to merit further investigation |
| 23 | A number of readers have asked for more advice on entries that cover matches in pairs and trios . |
| 24 | When employees ask for more money it is a comparative exercise . |
| 25 | They ask for more stimulus than their children provide and for the opportunity to give expression to their other creative and intellectual drives . |
| 26 | Please ask for more information about services which you think might be helpful to you . |
| 27 | You have to pour the custard on , and the they ask for more custard so you pour more custard on and you could just leave it . |
| 28 | The decision whether to ask for more money from the Home Office will be made by a special panel who meet on June 25 to discuss the issue , as well as deciding how to fund new security cameras for Warrington and police pay rises . |
| 29 | But his department has been slow to ask for more cash for environmental aid to the Third World . |
| 30 | A man who represented the regional office of the Prince 's Trust in Truro was ringing to ask for more information about my work . |