Example sentences of "[conj] asked for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no one had any suggestions ; almost everything had been tried , or asked for , or abandoned . |
| 2 | Or asked for it . |
| 3 | Aitken did not tell Fraser of any suggestion of confidentiality since , as he later affirmed , he did not believe that any undertaking had been given or asked for . |
| 4 | He had accosted her in a public place , and yet she had n't screamed , or run , or asked for help . |
| 5 | Their own addresses will tactfully neither be used nor asked for . |
| 6 | The allocation runs counter to the recommendations of a report last year that asked for greater spending on universities ( see Nature 356 , 9 : 1992 ) . |
| 7 | It held passion and fire , it was a kiss of domination that asked for surrender yet promised surrender in return . |
| 8 | In 1985 Cox 's paper was timely and asked for shifts in American Irish and British labour politics in a wholly correct way . |
| 9 | Leonard could be depressive along with many other poets ( the psycho-endocrinological critique of poetry has yet to be written ! ) ; he could also be uplifting and assertive ; he could , indeed , write ‘ about something ’ to use Faulkner 's phrase from The Bear , and did so to the advantage of large numbers of people who gladly read , and asked for more . |
| 10 | It was Don who made the effort ; he bought the local paper and looked at ads for houses ; he phoned estate agents and asked for lists of properties . |
| 11 | Bright too had misgivings in this area , particularly about size of the single conductor , and asked for it to be enlarged . |
| 12 | ‘ We have sent it back and asked for a translation . ’ |
| 13 | He admitted eight robberies between May and July and asked for two others and six attempted robberies to be taken into consideration . |
| 14 | I accepted that but , having in mind Sweden 's small population and great resources of iron and timber , thought it an untypical sort of country , and asked for another . |
| 15 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 16 | He told them how morally indefensible was the policy of apartheid , and asked for prayer for Africa . |
| 17 | And she loved his body , the astringent unsweaty cleverness of it , that gave with delight and asked for so little back . |
| 18 | She had been lucky so far ; she had not yet been caught , not yet been dragged off to some shrink and asked for explanations . |
| 19 | The RAC removed 89 parts from the stack and asked for replacements from the spares stock . |
| 20 | Before she could add , as she was evidently about to , that she never bought anything at the door , he announced himself hurriedly and asked for her husband . |
| 21 | In Peking he contacted missionaries and asked for baptism . |
| 22 | IT WAS a full year before he made the break — but eventually , on August 21 , 1984 , he went over to one of the more independent local magazines , Cauce , and asked for its leading journalist Monica Gonzalez . |
| 23 | Mr Endara was told of the planned attack , and asked for his support , which he apparently granted , saying that he was ready to become the new leader if the US could topple the Noriega regime . |
| 24 | When at last my number came , I presented myself at the window and asked for a ticket on the 10.05 to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 25 | I went to window three and asked for a ticket to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 26 | He went to an Indian fortune-teller and asked for advice . |
| 27 | Nigel gave up all belief in things occult after that and asked for his money back . |
| 28 | In the street they stopped us and asked for our papers . |
| 29 | But if so , why had they not walked in and asked for it ? |
| 30 | What is certain is that on the bright and sunny morning of 4 June 1913 the forty-year-old Emily Davison called at the offices of the WSPU in London and asked for two of the union 's white , green and purple flags . |