Example sentences of "when [pers pn] asked [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked him for his reaction , he sat hunched behind a table in his little palace , his head hanging down , his half-moon spectacles on the end of his nose . |
| 2 | But when I asked him for permission he just agreed . |
| 3 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 4 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 5 | Johnson did not drink her proffered dram , but Boswell and the two guides did , and when she asked them for snuff , her great luxury , they had none , but gave her money instead . |
| 6 | When we asked them for details about their visit they were very coy . |
| 7 | ‘ What 's — the matter this morning ? ’ she said , in the voice she had used when he asked her for an off-games note . |
| 8 | I can not recall an occasion when he asked me for help before . |