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The phrase "ask to be given" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when requesting something to be provided or granted to you.
Example: "If you need assistance, don't hesitate to ask to be given the necessary resources."
Alternatives: "request to receive" or "ask for".
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Companies ask to be given another chance.
WHY did Mr. Jackson ask to be given drugs that would help him sleep?
Musk has moved forward with the project by filing with the US Federal Communications Commission to ask to be given permission put the satellites into space.
Because of that, we ask to be given privacy as we seek to rebuild our home, our family and our daily living".
Since the rise of Meitu, a different kind of client has become more common: young, impressionable women who bring pictures of their idols to his office and ask to be given this or that feature.
Driven to hospital by an escort of balaclava-wearing police officers, Fahmy used his rare contact with the outside world to ask to be given more regular access to his lawyer, who he meets for only 45 minutes before a court appearance, and for the court's sessions to be held more regularly than once every three weeks.
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The owner asked to be given a break.
He asked to be given the punishment for all the defendants, who included four married couples.
The firm's lawyers, Carter-Ruck, then asked to be given more time, until 5.30pm tonight.
Higazy said that it wasn't his, and when he appeared before Rakoff he asked to be given a polygraph.
Ali and Karim (they asked to be given pseudonyms) are Iraqis in their thirties, married with children.
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