Request

make request

I don’t get on with my boss, so I’ve made a request for a transfer to another department.

refuse request

She’s such a nice person that I couldn’t bring myself to refuse her request.

receive / dealt request

The box office has been inundated with requests for tickets. We’ve received / dealt over one thousand requests since the telephone lines opened at 9.

meet with request

I applied for two months’ unpaid leave to travel around India, but I’m afraid my request has met a flat refusal!

dealt request

Please be patient. We are a bit understaffed today. Your request will be dealt in due course.

ignore request

We’ve just had a request for help from a hospital in Zimbabwe. I don’t think we can ignore it.

agree to request

The judge agreed to the request for a break when some starling new evidence suddenly came to light.

grant request

The deposed president’s request for political asylum has been granted, so he will be able to remain in France indefinitely.

repeated request

I’ve made repeated requests to my neighbors to turn their music down, but they just think I’m mad.

last request

My father’s last request was that there should be no flowers at his funeral.

reasonable request

You’ve nothing to lose by asking for a rise. It seems a perfectly reasonable request to make.

urgent request

He received an urgent request to meet the Prime Minister and left for London immediately.

special request

I’ve got a special request. Could you play ‘All you need in love’?

popular request

The film is on TV every Christmas by popular request.

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I’m here at the request of my boss. He couldn’t make the meeting and asked me to take his place.

Full details are available on request. Just send a stamped addressed envelope to the address below.

The writer’s name was withheld, by request. Given the content of the article, the author feared for his safety.

We’ve had lots of requests for more information about visa requirements for Tibet.

 

Notes

• In ‘The film is on TV every Christmas by popular request.’, note the fixed expression ‘by popular request’.

Something happens by popular request if lots of people ask for it.

• Note the phrasal verbs in the following:

The bus company turned down a request for reduced prices for pensioners. (refused)

He put in a request for a week’s extra holiday, but he doesn’t hold out much hope of the boss granting it. (made)

• In ‘Full details are available on request. Just send a stamped addressed envelope to the address below.’, if something is available on request, you have to write for it specially.
• If you ask for something for yourself, you do so ‘at your own request’.

The footballer, Ali Smith, has been put on the transfer list at his own request.