Example sentences of "he ask for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claimed that customers were appalled by the players ' language and that when he asked for order they threatened to punch out his lights . |
| 2 | Soon he asked for payment and William complied . |
| 3 | He asked for prayer about the journey to Jerusalem , knowing the tensions that existed between the Christians who had been of the Jewish faith , and those who were converted Gentiles . |
| 4 | Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months . |
| 5 | Mrs Stevens eventually gave him 5/ and when he asked for clothing suggested that he look in a nearby workman 's shed . |
| 6 | Although Kirk does not record that he raised any specific objection to this , or that he asked for confirmation that the Cossacks were all Soviet nationals within the terms of allied policy , he nevertheless includes the exchanges about the Cossacks among the points on which he requests the State Department 's views . |
| 7 | Secondly , he asked for authority to begin negotiations with Tolbukhin for the hand-over of the Cossacks . |
| 8 | He demurred , he asked for time to think , to consult his wife , to put the proposal to his daughter . |
| 9 | He asked for time to consider , but this was brushed aside and Nu , willy-nilly , became MP for Mergui , a place he had never previously visited . |
| 10 | He asked for coffee and fresh cake . |
| 11 | He asked for approval for having inaugurated the competition , but then said that if time would allow it , the War Office should be incorporated into the Downing Street scheme , particularly as the Pall Mall site was too small . |
| 12 | He asks for credit terms and , at the trader 's suggestion , he fills in a finance company 's hire purchase proposal form , which is in fact an offer made by the customer and addressed to the finance company to acquire the item from the finance company on hire purchase terms . |
| 13 | He asks for instalment terms . |