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How to use ask for in a sentence

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If you do get the promise of a concession by special request, ask for written confirmation from the airline.
Then he would ask for her to help him to stand up, because his legs had fallen asleep.
When customers began to ask for assembled radios, employees took the kits home and assembled them for extra money.
They wolf-whistle, ask for your name, your number, etc, and one even commented that Tuppy's skirt is very short.
In matrilineal ethnic groups such as the Wolof, the mother's brother is sent on behalf of the groom to ask for the bride's hand.
Don Quijote explains that any knight errant who did not ask for a lady love's favor and protection would be subject to criticism.
If you don't know the language of the country you live in, you can't ask for what you need.
If you ask for, say, 300 baht worth, the meter will certainly show that amount as you hand over the cash.
I think that it would be legitimate to ask for references from somebody's employer and bank.
In sandwich bars, ask for granary bread, and in supermarkets choose granary rolls, pittas and tortilla wraps.
And if you want to be alerted when a new user is added to the system, ask for alerts on users.
There's another wee guy who was not quite all there and he used to go into the record shop and ask for Elvis' latest hit.
Must President Bush come before Congress, the Senate for example, and ask for a yea or nay vote on war with Iraq?
After completing all of the requirements, and after a year and a day, the Newbie becomes a neophyte and may ask for initiation.
More in the crowd ask for food and water as the sun continues to cover the area with relentless heat.
Has anyone ever heard him publicly criticise a player and ask for him to be relieved of his position in the team?
As a remedy for the undesirable effects of interventionism they ask for still more interventionism.
One of the quickest ways of getting help is to go to the mosque and ask for zakat.
We ring whatever people ask for including Stedman Doubles, Crayford Minor and Norwich Surprise Minor.
It was also common for a town to ask for its own law court so that legal problems could be settled quickly.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The individual remembered hearing the gentleman ask for the train to Cuneo.
Therefore we ask for your opinions on the question of the power of adaptation in fecundity.
Parties applying at an office for advertized letters should always ask for them as such.
This was the first time she had ever heard Martin ask for something as sentimental as a kiss.
If the patient does not ask for the bedpan, the attendant should offer it at suitable times.
The bhikshu was never to ask for a gift, he must receive in silence what is offered.
A man does not ask for apple pie because of its calory content, but because he wants apple pie.
In the same way, if he likes to eat a chicken wing or a squab leg in his fingers he can ask for a finger-bowl.
You wouldn't have him give information about me to any man who chooses to ask for it?
You ask for what you do not need when you call upon me for a word of commendation.
What a good saint is our Ignatius, exclaimed the consolable widow, he bestows on us more benefits than we ask for!
They ask for Mademoiselle, are consternated when they learn of her departing.
Cumae refused to give a pension to Homer, for fear that all the blind men would ask for a pension.
And if you ask for Daphne, the gardener will point her out, for he calls the tree by her name.
Why, he might as well ask for Delmonico's bill of fare, but we have got to get 'em.
Also, he said that his wish in seeing the Princess was to ask for the whereabouts of Miss Denham.
To ask for a guarantor for a reputable resident is simply to discommode two people instead of one.
We had sea room, and no lee shore to fear, and the ship was stanch, and no sailor can ask for more than that.
The mission at Florence is to give away, and I am here to ask for the secretaryship.
When we ask for the common type of working Semitic religion, where are we to look for it?
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