I asked for Allamurr, and they expressed themselves sorry in not having any left, and gave us to understand that they would supply us, if we would stay a day.
Not seeing Mr. Gilbert, I asked for him, when Charley told me that our unfortunate companion was no more!
So he went to the priest, and the priest gave him some holy water as soon as he asked for it.
He asked for one of them in marriage, leaving to her the choice of which she would bestow on him.
You are young and in the bloom of life, but when death seemed staring you in the face, you expressed no anxiety, asked for no counsel, showed no alarm.
He asked for me particularly, and Ernest came for me at last.
I knew there was something underneath my gayety better worth your love, and was glad I could give you more than you asked for.
If he knew that his crime could be brought home to him; that he would certainly be charged with murder if he dared to show himself, or if he asked for money, he would desist.
Whether he gave his name or concealed his name, when he asked for Mrs. Vimpany at the house-door, she would in either case refuse to see him.
Have you forgotten how you received me, sir, when I asked for a loan at your hotel in London?
As he spoke, he asked for a rope to strangle him; but Madame Wang lost no time in clasping him in her embrace, and reasoning with him as she wept.
Neither need we include the two girls of our number, who are ill; nor take into account the four girls who've asked for leave.
But would one presume to ask for what shouldn't be asked for?
I reckon when the devil gets the handling of him at last he'll have to put sand on his claws to keep him from slipping through.
I've got to get away from that little old town pretty frequent or I begin to moult like a canary.
The sense of some great impending disaster hung heavily on me, and to break the spell I asked for details.
You thought I was mad when I asked for Scudder's book, but we put our backs into the job and in twenty-four hours we had won out.
I explained that I was going back to France that evening, and he asked for my warrant.
I asked for it, I simply said it must come--and now I am able to bear myself and look around me, and say that the secret of my liberation is not death but life.
He pleaded how hard he had worked, and what a chance he had; he would pay back the money out of the first royalties from the book--which could not possibly fail to earn the hundred dollars he asked for.
And Corydon would promise it--she would promise him anything he asked for; but this was a boon it did not lie within the possibility of her temperament to grant.
I asked for a place with the patients, but all were already distributed, so that my only resource will be to try to sleep tonight.
All that he asked for was a line on a visiting card, a kindly word from the Countess, which he would at once carry to Baroness Duvillard to prevail on her to set the regulations aside.
At last, too, the church which the Virgin had asked for, the Basilica, began to rise on the summit of the rock itself.
You will beasked for some, for I feel anxious about some of the patients.
The police which, once more, asked for my passport, has, however, returned it to me with the remark that there is nothing against my undisturbed stay at Venice.
I tell you this because I think that you will not approve of the plan, and will refuse your consent if asked for it.
Today followed a letter for him, accompanied by one to me, in which I am asked for information as to Tausig and his whereabouts.
He asked for a light, and, saying he wanted nothing else, withdrew at once to his room.
That's why I asked for it," said the unblushing Allan.
Next at a farm he asked for a horse, and at a second for a sleigh; and at another place he asked for a fur coat.
No one said him "Nay"--even the stingiest folk were all forced to give him what he asked for.
No; just because I asked for information, you might have known that was not what I really wanted.
Here he asked for food, and soon sat down to a plentiful meal, the coarseness of which was more than compensated for by the excellence of his appetite.
You see,' he said, 'after all, the mine was worth the two hundred thousand pounds we asked for it.
I asked for a cell for myself; my wish was granted.
Therefore, after another fortnight, I wrote in a stricter tone, and after another two weeks, I asked for my manuscript back, to send it to another publisher.
After a whole week had passed without any reaction, I asked for an answer.
What was then our surprise, our joy, to find that in Madrid there was no octroi at all, and that the amiable mozos who took our things hardly knew what we meant when we asked for it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asked for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
