Example sentences of "i be ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I been asked to imagine myself as I would have looked during that time , you can be sure that I would have had the beautiful gown , the ruffled frill and the bejewelled fingers of a lady . |
| 2 | Even more revealing , had I been asking the questions now ( the year of the miners ' strike ) , would have been the reaction to this one , suggested by Griffiths and Howson . |
| 3 | I am asked if I can be on standby if transport is needed ? |
| 4 | ‘ Whenever I am asked about the block vote by GMB members , they find the explanation baffling . |
| 5 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
| 6 | IT MUST be a plot , for here is another effect that I am asked to inquire about in my ignorant way . |
| 7 | IT IS not every day , at my age , that I am asked to go into a dark cupboard with a man , so I was both flattered and cautious on doing so . |
| 8 | What better time to take an over-view of the sort of things I am asked most often , and a look at how the commonest problems can be avoided ? |
| 9 | Thinking about the species I am asked about , the Oscar ( Astronotus ocellatus ) is way out in front , with probably 10% or more of queries . |
| 10 | After another half hour of lively sexist banter and innuendo , I am asked to leave and threatened with having dogs set upon me . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you agree with us , ’ I am asked , ‘ or has your manliness been squashed by the hard feminists ? ’ |
| 12 | The first meeting takes place this week and I am asked to make a presentation to the Committee which was set up by the minister of finance . ’ |
| 13 | All the patients ’ files are kept under lock and key in his office , so I only see what I am asked to type . ’ |
| 14 | When I am asked to think of a happy London , I think of this place in July and of my lazy pondmates : Kelly and Simone and Jo , the acidhouse DJ . |
| 15 | I am asked whether I am sorry . |
| 16 | I could read the whole of it if I am asked to do so . |
| 17 | It is worth getting this formidable reputation into perspective by quoting the words of Edward O. Wilson , the world 's foremost authority on ants as well as the author of Sociobiology : In answer to the single question I am asked most frequently about ants , I can give the following answer : No , driver ants are not really the tenor of the jungle . |
| 18 | Should I have a job specification for everyone in my team , so if I am asked where is it , I can say here it is , and make sure that they are all signed off . |
| 19 | It is very difficult to produce this type of game but I am asking my players to do it . |
| 20 | ‘ All I am asking , is to be treated in exactly the same way as Dr Wyatt ’ . |
| 21 | That is why I am asking you now to become a Friend of Save the Children . |
| 22 | Perhaps most importantly of all , I am asking what Anglicanism can learn from this trend in church life . |
| 23 | Or failing the gift of a sum in cash , I am asking you to make it a business transaction , to buy what you clearly must need and what we can no longer afford to keep . |
| 24 | I am asking you to take up the privilege . |
| 25 | Ask yourself , ‘ What precisely is it I wish my child to say and/or do when I am asking him/her to be good , polite , helpful , kind ? ’ ( or any of those other vague goals parents set for their bemused offspring ) . |
| 26 | In these last days of the programme I am asking you to stretch your body even further than before . |
| 27 | However , perhaps I am asking too much , because at £10.99 this is certainly a worthwhile text with a refreshing approach . |
| 28 | ‘ I am asking my accountants to have a look at it . |
| 29 | This month is different because I am asking you to help other people . |
| 30 | All I am asking is a little donation now and again . |