Example sentences of "[adv] been ask [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr McCallum added that she had rarely been asked to help anyone end their life , though relatives sometimes asked , using the argument ‘ you would n't let a dog die in this way ’ . |
| 2 | It was Penelope , to tell Sophia that she had suddenly been asked to go to dinner at Rupert Stonebird 's that evening , but that she would n't have time to go home and change first . |
| 3 | The CLA , anglers and conservationists have all been asked to contribute and have done so . |
| 4 | The Djibouti government , he said , had never asked the French to mediate with the FRUD ; they had merely been asked to honour the mutual defence agreement signed between the two countries in 1977 , which they had singularly failed to do in the face of the FRUD " invasion " . |
| 5 | He has already been asked to join them for a 60-date tour next year . |
| 6 | Students due to enter the school that year had already been asked to volunteer for the parallel track , so two cohorts existed — those who had expressed a preference for the new approach and those who had not . |
| 7 | The reunion was a great success and Keith and joint organiser Jeryl Whitelock , who is a lecturer in International Marketing at Salford have already been asked to organise the next one in five years time , when the graduates will mark the twentieth anniversary of successfully completing the degree . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just been asked to take over a leading role in a production that 's been playing in Stratford which they 're taking to the Barbican . |
| 9 | Still it was hard when she 'd just been asked to blow up an orbiting city with almost a million inhabitants . |
| 10 | Her musical career continues — she has just been asked to write a song for a new album by Belinda Carlisle . |
| 11 | The Joneses have just been asked to find 15 years ' back rent along with the residents of the other 17 flats at Shire Court in Swindon . |
| 12 | Brosnan has just been asked to adorn a Birmingham building with his burnished , living metal . |
| 13 | ‘ But let me tell you — both of you , ’ darting a venomous look at Major Calder , ‘ that this is without doubt the most degrading and distasteful thing I 've ever been asked to do ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ One of the most difficult matches we have ever been asked to play , ’ confided Sir Alf Ramsey in June , 1973 , his apprehension understandable despite being able to call upon the vast experience of Bobby Moore , Alan Ball and Martin Peters . |
| 15 | This was the first time that the health service had ever been asked to make staff economies . |
| 16 | Englishmen had been settling overseas for a century and a half but their colonies had been inhabited by people who , apart from the slaves who got no choice in the matter , had no particular difficulty in committing themselves to being loyal to King George : Englishmen , Scotsmen , Irishmen , or Germans would accept the King without question , and the Dutch of New York and the Acadians of Nova Scotia were almost the only people who had ever been asked to make a serious change of allegiance , which had been harder for the Acadians because of religious differences . |
| 17 | I 've only ever been asked to write one travel feature . |
| 18 | ( Oh , yes , Benjamin and I had also been to university but , due to minor misunderstandings , had both been asked to leave before we received our degrees . |
| 19 | Companies have also been asked to describe the subjects covered in training and their future needs , the way training is being carried out and how it is rated . |
| 20 | It has also been asked to explore radio and insert work , and expand off-the-page activity . |
| 21 | One of the two main instruments , a germanium spectrometer , would be provided by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) , which has also been asked to make available data-receiving facilities at two ground stations . |
| 22 | He has also been asked to play the lead in an Italian mini-series about the early life of Mussolini , a story which traces the Italian dictator 's transition from humble socialist mine worker to the power-mad founder of the fascist Blackshirts . |
| 23 | Indeed , this event was the first of several that has enabled Keith to use his knowledge of Russian as he has also been asked to write a short speech for a Coopers and Lybrand partner in Sheffield and subsequently coach him with his delivery skills . |
| 24 | The company has also been asked to consider spinning cellular operations into a separate company . |
| 25 | I have also been asked to pass on the request of one of the nearby residents for the latch to be replaced on the playing field gates . |
| 26 | Decisions on pits which will survive will be left to British Coal , which has also been asked to prepare for privatisation as soon as legislation can be put in place . |
| 27 | These breed clubs have regenerated interest in the people who had for some reason left the breed and have now been asked to return to spread their knowledge to the younger members . |
| 28 | The board has simply been asked to provide that information before I can make a decision . |
| 29 | The organisation Les Vieilles Maisons Francaises is also very strong and Michael 's colleague , Gwyn Meirion-Jones , has frequently been asked to lecture to this group . |
| 30 | 53 said the assistant manager , who had earlier been asked to put our 50 chairs , and who then had to find another three in a panic when some extra people arrived . |