How To Use Ask for it In A Sentence
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But when you ask for it back, don't be surprised to get an admonitory finger-wagging about being over-fixated on money and wealth, when you really should be thinking more about wellbeing and the work-life balance.
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So excessive was the Roman horror of obscenity that even physicians were compelled to use a euphemism for _urina_, and though the _urinal_ or _vas urinarium_ was openly used at the dining-table (following a custom introduced by the Sybarites, according to Athenæus, Book XII, cap. 17), the decorous guest could not ask for it by name, but only by a snap of the fingers (Dufour, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 174).
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism
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Mention it a few times, point out how cool it is and how you've always wanted one, and finally ask for it outright.
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Everybody says, "When you have kids, you really get away from yourself." But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, I'm going to create unconditional love for myself, and I'm going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I'm going to get it. Brooke Shields
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They make it especially for Oktoberfest and certain people ask for it specifically.
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Instead of the usual space-gobbling water storer/heater, you get a smaller, more efficient gizmo that just gives you hot water when you ask for it.
An Inconvenient Truth
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It was only the other day I read in the report of the Consumers League in my own city that a benevolent institution, when found giving out clothing to be made in tenement houses that were not licensed, and taken to task for it, asked the agents of the League to show some way in which the law could be evaded; but it is just as well for that benevolent institution that name and address were wanting, or it might find its funds running short unaccountably.
VII. Pietro and the Jew
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The irredentist ideology was eventually exacerbated by the fascist regime, which used it as an ideological mask for its expansionist policy.
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Stay with vinegar-and-oil salad dressing, and when in doubt, ask for it on the side.
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Keeping you at home, in the kitchen, with the children, while government policy rains Hell on the kind of hussies that "ask for it" from men, and scowling and sternly tapping it's foot at the men who give it to them, is all in your own best genetic interest.
Figleaf's Real Adult Sex - Confessions of a libertine prude / grumblings of a prudish libertine
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If you want milk you have to ask for it and it costs extra (often 50 bani or 5000 old lei) and is usually a single creamer and not real milk.
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Some bishops will increasingly seek and rely on counsel in these matters, but whether they ask for it from those offering to give it remains to be seen.
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My initial patriotic instinct was to order the U.S. beef and ask for it "tartare," just for spite.
Archive 2003-02-01
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Everybody says, "When you have kids, you really get away from yourself." But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, I'm going to create unconditional love for myself, and I'm going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I'm going to get it. Brooke Shields
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In working on your own WOC systems, pay attention to when you can glean implicit feedback without having to ask for it directly.
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When the liquor is about 70°, it is generally tunned off into a large vat or cask for it to ferment.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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Regulations do not require such requests to be submitted in writing, and his squadron commanders did not ask for it.
Christianity Today
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I have taken offence to the statement that a lie was told, and I ask for it to be withdrawn and apologised for.
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That doctor from the city fixed her arm all up in what he called a jacket, and that nurse that you sent just seems to know what Huldy wants before she can ask for it I hear them nurses are awful expensive, and I don't think she better stay but a day or two longer.
Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life
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It was only the other day I read in the report of the Consumers League in my own city that a benevolent institution, when found giving out clothing to be made in tenement houses that were not licensed, and taken to task for it, asked the agents of the League to show some way in which the law could be evaded; but it is just as well for that benevolent institution that name and address were wanting, or it might find its funds running short unaccountably.
VII. Pietro and the Jew
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It is your money, so never be backward in coming forward to ask for it.
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To get this you will need to call up your Service Provider and ask for it.
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I am so incredibly civil to him that people often take me to task for it.
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If you wanted to buy an ordinary bulb, you had to ask for it specially.
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` ` What do you hask for it? '' asked the planter indifferently, designating the house by a wave of his whip.
Old Creole Days
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`Since you have not yet given your prognostication, I will ask for it now," Ellel said, with a sidelong look.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Everybody says, "When you have kids, you really get away from yourself." But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, I'm going to create unconditional love for myself, and I'm going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I'm going to get it. Brooke Shields
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If a man wants your money, he ought to ask for it, or send round a subscription-list, instead of juggling about the country, with an Australian larrikin; a "brumby," with as much breed as the boy; a brace of chumars in gold-laced caps; three or four ekka-ponies with hogged manes, and a switch-tailed demirep of a mare called Arab because she has a kink in her flag.
Indian Tales
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If your medicine has a name which you are unable to find in the index, contact your dispensing chemist and ask for its generic name.
The Medicine Chest - your family's guide to prescription drugs
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Each drink in Nero's has two shots of espresso in unless you specifically ask for it not to.
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I have taken offence to the statement that a lie was told, and I ask for it to be withdrawn and apologised for.
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All right, your teaching fellows have the authority to work with me and grant you an extension, but you have to ask for it ahead of time.
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I also saw, in the lumber-room, a number of packing-cases -- one with a label dated two days back -- which had been opened with an iron lever; and yet, when I made an excuse to ask for it, you said there was no such thing in the place.
Martin Hewitt, Investigator
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The Hotsburger, which is made with a thick, loosely packed beef patty spiked with lots of chopped jalapeño and served open-faced on garlic toast, has been off the menu for years now, but somebody will always make you one if you ask for it.
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They can simply ask for it, and in many cases, ISPs have been more than willing to pony it up.
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If your medicine has a name which you are unable to find in the index, contact your dispensing chemist and ask for its generic name.
The Medicine Chest - your family's guide to prescription drugs
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Then again I did ask for it I called someone an emotionally immature moron.
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If we recall the cheapness of government securities under the Empire, and the liberality of Napoleon towards those of his faithful servants who knew how to ask for it, we can readily see that the Baron di Piombo must have been a man of stern integrity.
The Vendetta
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You had to ask for it by name and it wasn't listed on their table; but, if you knew it was there and I got word from a little birdie to ask for the "Shoshone" - which apparently caused the fine folks pouring beer much amusement they would pour a wonderfully sour and refreshing dark Flanders Red.
Archive 2009-08-01
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And no matter whether they ask for it or not, only a sleazeball sleeps with sixteen-year-olds.
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_Percalus. _ (rising and moving the arbute boughs aside with the tip of her sandal), "And, unless thou wouldst wait very long for my father's consent, perchance thou mayst have to ask for it very soon -- too soon to prepare thy courage for so great a peril.
Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance
