1.   Can I please, through your letters page, make a request on behalf of all vendors of second-hand equipment?

2.   I am informed that local authorities currently have to make their requests through the police.

3.   In many cases where a request has been made, it has met with a flat refusal.

4.   The fisherman made the request of the flounder, and this wish came true too.

5.   The request was made even before an application was submitted for a liquor license.

6.   Their son would make beseeching requests for more money whenever his personal exchequer was getting low.

7.   They made a request to begin work immediately.

8.   Arens said that he had made the request for a permanent upgrade during talks with the US Defence Secretary, Dick Cheney, in late May.

9.   Please could you also ensure that the delay in making this request does not mean that the work is excessively held back.