Ask for
Ask for verb - Increase the likelihood of.
Both terms in one sentence
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He thought he had finished conclusively and the kids were asleep, only to hear them ask for "the rest of the story." He would resort to apocalypse.
Source: Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies
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