Sentence examples for asked for bread from inspiring English sources

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The first person her sister asked for bread was Manja.

She asked for bread, and apologized to him for taking so long to order dinner.

All of the African children asked for bread, but Michael led these 2 home.

BETSY FRAZEE HOUSE -- Lord Cornwallis is said to have asked for bread for his troops at this house in Scotch Plains, built in the mid-1700's, but went away hungry after a feisty remark from the owner, Betsy Frazee.

On our second visit, we asked for bread, but the waiter said no, not before the decorative plates were removed, because we might mar them with butter and crumbs.

In a landmark moment in the long campaign for women's ordination, Kroll stood up in the Church of England General Synod – which had just rejected the reform – and cried out from the gallery: "We asked for bread and you gave us a stone!" That was in 1978, and Kroll's Matthew 7 9-inspired cry was not to be answered for another 14 years.

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One night, we had to ask for bread and never received the ketchup we requested.

Having to ask for bread was evidence, Gisella Heinemann said, that "Yo micromanaged everything".

The grocer calls to ask if we need anything and we ask for bread, milk, tea, eggs and so on.

Chopped chicken liver devotees will relish City Deli's easily spreadable, onion-covered, very tasty version (but they'll have to ask for bread since it doesn't come automatically).

"The Bible asks, 'If your child asks for bread, would you give him a stone?

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