Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has been asking this questions since it was announced that Holiday '91 Presenter Anne Gregg will be leaving the programme later this month at her BBC bosses ' request . |
| 2 | When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … . |
| 3 | At Heathrow I 'd been asked specifically not to tranquillise him in case of the possibility of side-effects which could have seriously affected his future stud career . |
| 4 | I 'd been asked how I wanted him dressed . |
| 5 | ‘ Because I learned by accident INCUBUS was trying to take over his company — and exactly the same thing had happened with another industrialist I 'd been asked to draw up a profile for . ’ |
| 6 | I wish I had a pound for every time I 'd been asked that . |
| 7 | I 'd been asking Peggy to get something like that for ages . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd been asking why she 'd taken a clerical job when she 'd had an art training and she said it was all she could get at first but after a while she 'd managed to wangle this daytime class . ’ |
| 9 | During the fifties ignorance about Black people was rife : I remember being asked on many occasions , as a child , if I had lived in the jungle , if my parents ate cat food or even people . |
| 10 | First of all chairman we have put in this morning erm a paper on commitments which erm I think was asked for by the panel which is this document which should have been circulated er by now . |
| 11 | The first thing I did was ask Posi to scan its contents . |
| 12 | This cost-effective nature of a scholarship was a matter I had been asked to justify when I first asked my new assistant chief constable about the potential of postgraduate research as an ‘ observing participator ’ . |
| 13 | If I had been asked at Christmas whether my home waters of Chew and Blagdon would be full by opening day , the answer would have been an emphatic no . |
| 14 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |
| 15 | I had been asked by Professor John Mills and Dr James Waterhouse of Manchester School of Medicine to record my temperature every waking hour . |
| 16 | I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion . |
| 17 | If I had been asked to decorate a flat to reflect McIllvanney 's character then I would have given him an East Belfast bar with sawdust scattered on the floor , King Billy strutting on the walls , and blood splattered across its tobacco-stained ceiling . |
| 18 | I had been asked to let her know the minute I saw his car arrive . |
| 19 | Around the middle of 1969 I had been asked by the Jockey Club whether I would join the board of United Racecourses , for one reason and one reason only : in order to keep the peace between the Jockey Club and Lord Wigg . |
| 20 | I had been asked to consult Geoff Tulloch . |
| 21 | I put on my shoes and jacket which I had been asked to take off and told the doctor I would visit her another time . |
| 22 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 23 | I 've been asked to write about it and I said I 'd give it a think . ’ |
| 24 | I 've been asked to coordinate initiatives — ’ |
| 25 | Whenever I 've been asked to take a sponsored parachute jump I 've declined , giving the excuse ‘ fear of flying ’ . |
| 26 | I 've been asked to tab out the solo and the ending from a song from ‘ Hasten Down The Wind ’ , Linda 's version of That 'll Be The Day . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been asked not to comment , ’ he said , coyly . |
| 28 | But I 've been asked by the PM to co-operate with a special operative of the CIA . |
| 29 | I 've been asked by an inflight magazine , of all things , for 1,000 words on the state of publishing . |
| 30 | I have to say , that was one of the more unsettling questions I 've been asked in my life . ’ |