Example sentences of "asked him for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
| 2 | The boy was in Nunnery Lane when another youth asked him for a ride on the bike and never returned . |
| 3 | In all the years Francis and I were married I never asked him for a cent . |
| 4 | They asked him for a swimming pool and a better playground , but he was n't making any promises . |
| 5 | So when Jane asked him for a loan , he snapped back : ‘ I think my first duty is to look after myself ! ’ |
| 6 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
| 7 | I believe she has even phoned an old school friend of mine whom she avowedly dislikes and asked him for the manuscript of a symphony we once composed together . |
| 8 | A girl from one of the other teams — for all of us had assembled by now — asked him for the time and briefly discussed the weather with him and when , after about 15 minutes , he struck off purposefully around a nearby playing field , he had a tail of 14 people — the entire membership of all four spy teams — determined not to lose their quarry . |
| 9 | I asked him for an instance of the difference between bookselling in Knightsbridge , London , and Union Street , Glasgow . |
| 10 | Once , Barry 's daughter asked him for an autograph . |