Example sentences of "and asking for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not fair to the others — and asking for clothes for his wife is about the last straw ! ’ |
| 2 | By clearing out this mind and asking for help from our mentor with our intuitive self , which is hidden inside us , we can progressively strengthen ourselves . |
| 3 | The Anonymous Fellowships help sufferers to come to recognise that their problems lie primarily in their own perceptions and behaviour and that solutions lie in giving help to others and asking for help from them . |
| 4 | I understand that C E C's accepting this motion and asking for remittance for further consultation . |
| 5 | Malcolm also slowly moved into made-to-measure tailoring , probably because of teddy boys coming in and asking for stuff to be made up . |
| 6 | In the nearest modern marketing has come to the skin-flintery of Ebenezer Scrooge , a growing number of American shopping malls have picked the Christmas season to ban the Salvation Army from ringing its bells and asking for money for its traditional Big Red Kettle collection boxes . |
| 7 | In that case the employees , who were warehousemen employed by a company which supplied nuts and bolts , wrote to ten of their employers ' suppliers informing them that they intended to start up in business on their own trading in nuts and bolts , and asking for details of their products . |
| 8 | In August 1923 Eliot had written to Alfred Kreymborg ( who published ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ in 1915 ) , responding enthusiastically to Kreymborg 's Puppet Plays , and asking for advice on manufacturing of puppets . |
| 9 | For anyone who is thinking of planting I would suggest visiting a local nursery which grows its own plants and asking for advice about planting times . |
| 10 | Mill says exactly what I just said in response of him that is if the people are prepared to accept these why what 's to stop them consulting and asking for advice about how they should cast their vote and so Mill later on gives a response to his own suggestion about plural voting in effect without realizing that what he 's done . |