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Meanings of asked for shelter in English
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Usage of asked for shelter in English
1
Here I asked for shelter and was immediately supplied with a bed.
2
As I have told you, he came to me and asked for shelter.
3
She told her she was a girl traveling alone and she asked for shelter.
4
He came to an inn and asked for shelter.
5
In the evening they arrived at the tents of some more Bedouin, and asked for shelter.
6
So the bear came in and asked for shelter from the storm, for he could speak.
7
We are travellers, who have asked for shelter.
8
On recognising Marcasse, however, the fugitives, far from showing themselves hostile, asked for shelter and help.
9
The weather was very stormy, and it blew and rained, so he turned into the mill and asked for shelter.
10
We asked for shelter.
11
He asked for shelter.
12
She asked for shelter and food and she received it: there was no reason to believe she was fabricating her story.
13
He got up hastily, and, taking the dog in his arms, went to the police station near by and asked for shelter.
14
But, as her house was small, and without a man, if they asked for shelter, she sent them to the next neighbor.
15
He would have stopped at some house and asked for shelter, but the hour was so late that he shrank from disturbing strangers.
16
When I asked for shelter, she answered brightly and trustingly that she would see, and went into a little room at the side.
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Asked for shelter across language varieties
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