The phrase "ago asked for" is not correct in English and does not convey a clear meaning.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks context to determine its intended use.
Example: "He asked for help a week ago."
Alternatives: "previously requested" or "asked for earlier".
"I have grievously sinned and long ago asked for the Lord's forgiveness".
As it happens, another New Yorker cover, a poster, hangs in the office of David Axelrod Michelle Obamaa has said reading the magazine is one of her favorite ways to relax; and the President, a big New Yorker reader, not long ago, asked for a signed copy of a cover in which he was walking on water — and then fell in.
"They called several days ago, asking for me," Mr. Takahashi said.
According to Putin's official spokesman, Berezovsky wrote a personal letter to the Russian president two months ago, asking for forgiveness.
Mr. Schmidt, 47, who has made several other deals involving compromising celebrity pictures and videos in the past, approached representatives for the actor several weeks ago, asking for money.
Sources familiar with the investigation say that he sent a prosecution memo to DC two months ago asking for authority to indict a public figure (Spitzer).
Mr. Harris, who keeps a rifle by his front door, recalled a Mexican couple reaching his house one morning three months ago, asking for water and use of a telephone.
Yannis Stournaras, the finance minister, sent a letter to his French counterpart several days ago asking for the original list, but so far the Greek official has not received a response, according to the ministry spokesman, who was not authorized to speak publicly.
Since that time, the home has been heavily renovated, and its current owners weren't even aware of its musical significance until television news crews knocked on their door a few years ago, asking for details about Morrison's former home.
But doubts about the unsavoury parade were rein forced by contradictions in the testimony--and by the Bahraini security services' known propensity to turn to torture.Political protest in Bahrain has its origin in a petition, signed by 25,000 people and presented to the emir more than two years ago, asking for a return to the democracy that the island had briefly experienced in the mid-1970s.
"I went to see her five years ago, asking for help to get my husband treatment, saying I couldn't cope any more.
