Example sentences of "asking to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , sir ? ’ he asked Sharpe , but in a nervous voice which suggested that he expected his temerity in asking to be met with a savage reproof . |
| 2 | Part of the reason behind the payments is to placate high earners , some of whom are asking to be moved to overseas branches of their companies to avoid higher taxes . |
| 3 | She hardly spares a thought for the letter she wrote to her mother complaining about her foster home and asking to be moved … . |
| 4 | This is asking to be mugged . |
| 5 | They were all losers ; the Jewish refusniks , the intellectual dissidents , the scattered Christians asking to be eaten by the KGB lions . |
| 6 | Today they are asking to be heard — even on such an explosive subject as the war in Arabia . |
| 7 | He did n't go home , but lay down in one of the rest rooms at the police station , asking to be called at once if there was any news . |
| 8 | He wrote to the local Conservative Association asking to be made a member . |
| 9 | The row culminated in the headteacher , Jim Nind , asking to be transferred to another post and four of the seven teachers , apparently exhausted by the events , going on sick leave for a week . |
| 10 | Every day , anything up to a thousand illegal Asian workers are crowding into Tokyo 's main immigration bureau , asking to be deported . |
| 11 | But between plays and poems odd new characters do begin monologuing away and asking to be written down . |
| 12 | By his next letter he had recovered his good humour and was asking to be forgiven . |
| 13 | Ken wrote asking to be forgiven for being ‘ a foolish old man ’ . |
| 14 | LIBERAL Democrats on Sheffield City Council are asking to be told about the financial state of GB Universiade , the company organising the World Student Games in 1991 , writes John Rodda . |
| 15 | ‘ Nothing much , really just asking to be told if they found her . ’ |
| 16 | Some chairmen expressed their discontent with Citrine 's centralising tendencies , for example , by asking to be released from their turn at occupying one of the four Central Authority seats reserved for them , or by sending deputies to headquarters meetings . |
| 17 | I recognise that at present this advice is given in confidence but , like Glidewell L.J. , I would foresee little difficulty in the Secretary of State asking to be released from that confidence in pending cases . |
| 18 | ( The examiners are asking you to show that you have a view and can justify it , whatever it is ; they are not asking to be attacked for holding the view outlined in the question , which they probably do n't hold anyway . ) |
| 19 | His head knocked on the steps of the rostrum as if asking to be let in . |
| 20 | One is hammering on the front door of Elland Road asking to be let in to the VIP suites . |
| 21 | Testators normally began their will by committing their soul to Almighty God and asking to be buried in the local churchyard ( or if they were rich and important enough within the church itself ) . |
| 22 | You can receive information about all of the show in the Riverside Theatre by simply giving your full name and address to the Box Office staff and asking to be added to our mailing list . |
| 23 | Maria kept asking to be taken to the theatre . |
| 24 | Despite some misgivings , he persuaded Tom Gray to accompany him on a wander to a nearby burial ground , Lying on top of a heap of bones , ‘ almost asking to be taken , was a femur . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're certainly asking to be evicted . |
| 26 | But that does n't mean that the ordinary case is one in which the woman is in any way asking to be raped . |
| 27 | Erm but I I was n't actually that surprised that the school er at a school asking to be paid for the tapes because erm they 've got to get their money from somewhere |
| 28 | CARL PREAN has written to the English Table Tennis Association asking to be omitted from future ranking lists because of the way they are determined . |
| 29 | Seven bishops — Sancroft ( of Canterbury ) , Trelawny ( Bristol ) , Lloyd ( St Asaph ) , Turner ( Ely ) , White ( Peterborough ) , Ken ( Bath and Wells ) and Lake ( Chichester ) — petitioned the Crown asking to be excused from reading and distributing the Declaration . |
| 30 | If you are unable to take part in your Games lesson ( due to injury or illness ) then you should bring a note , asking to be excused . |