Sentence examples for ask for a thing from inspiring English sources

Bribing officials here would look genuinely impressive given the fat wedges of money that would change hands, but to their unending credit, over the four days we're in their country the Uzbeks never ask for a thing.

She never asked for a thing, never".

Yet, I've never been asked for a thing.

But unless prompted by us, Jacob never asked for a thing beyond our advice.

In truth, it is shy, the scorpion, a creature with eight eyes and almost no sight, who shuns the daylight, and is driven mad by fire, who favors the lonely spot, and feeds on nothing much, and only throws out its poison barb when backed against a wall -- a thing like me, but not the thing I asked for, a thing, by accident or design, I am now attached to.

We all want to push forward, and when you have five people who are all like that, you couldn't ask for a better thing".

"At that first Mozart rehearsal," he said, "I was apprehensive that I would ask for a certain thing and someone would come up and say: 'Maestro, I've actually written my doctoral dissertation on that grace note.

They could, however, ask for a few things this offseason: a three-point sniper, a big man, and a Rondo.

(Stockhausen doesn't actually ask for such a thing to happen, but it seemed apt).

"No one would have dared to ask for such a thing during Saddam's regime; if he did, he would definitely be executed," said Ghassan Ali, a 43-year-old farmer who lives near the oil field.

"The people who ask for such a thing know nothing about wine".