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I saw a girl studying at a coffee shop and I thought she was beautiful.And a couple of weeks after I'd seen her studying at the coffee shop, I saw her dancing really hard at a club, when I thought she was so attractive that I

  1. could not help but ask for her phone number.

  2. could not help but ask her to give me her phone number.

I'm perfectly comfortable using "ask someone to ~" pattern, but I'd like to know if I can use "ask for~" in this context.

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  • yes, I thought I could use "can not help ~ing / but ~" pattern here to imply that I have no choice but to approach her and ask her to give me number. because she is attractive enough for me to do that.
    – jihoon
    Commented Aug 4, 2015 at 6:13
  • Are you sure about dancing hard? how one dance hard?
    – Ahmad
    Commented Aug 4, 2015 at 9:26
  • You much use AND in your sentences. I would write I saw a girl studying at a coffee shop. I thought she was beautiful. A couple of weeks later, I saw her dancing at a club. At that moment I thought she was so attractive that I couldn't help but ask her for phone number.
    – Ahmad
    Commented Aug 4, 2015 at 9:33

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Yes, both are correct,

however, when you ask someone to get something, the pattern is ask somebody for something, example:

I asked John for his number.

if you say ask for something as

I asked for her number

it may also mean you asked the other people to give you her number

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