"They asked for five minutes to speak and I turned them down," he said.

He'd asked for just ten minutes of her time and very reluctantly she'd agreed to see him at six that evening.

He asked for thirty minutes and a small area of the downtown was saved from the fire.

Meanwhile, a man claiming to be a coroner enters the house and asks for 20 minutes alone with the body.

I ask for five more minutes of your time to prove that this is so.

"I'm not going to be asking for 40 minutes and 20 shots."

He said he didn't want to win the belt like that and asked for five extra minutes.

"I started out by asking him for 10 minutes of his time."

I ask for only ten minutes, in order to dilate the hydrogen.

I'd asked for forty minutes to give me time to get to the rendezvous absolutely certain I was alone.