Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Get a bit of sympathy cos I 've been asked for eight by you . |
| 4 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 5 | The development is being promoted by the City of Edinburgh District Council , although it has not yet progressed to the submission of a planning application on which I have been asked for comments by the District Councils Director of Planning . |
| 6 | Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now . |
| 7 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 8 | The one who suffers is asking for help . |
| 9 | Erm it 's an exercise that you 've been asking for . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
| 11 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |
| 12 | She 's been asking for you , she feels terribly guilty about the baby . ’ |
| 13 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 14 | However , the know-how fund is doing extremely good work throughout the former Soviet republics , where we have been asked for that help , as it is in the rest of central and eastern Europe . |
| 15 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years . |
| 16 | ‘ We have been asking for this specialist help at the Memorial hospital for a long time now , but there has been no movement from the health authority over this matter . ’ |
| 17 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 18 | Cos they have n't , they , they 've been asking for |
| 19 | There was no evidence as to what the Perots ' attitude would have been if they had been asked for more than $2.5m. for Caliban . |
| 20 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 21 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 22 | Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him . |
| 23 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 24 | ‘ He 's been asking for you . ’ |
| 25 | You have refused to pay what has been asked for my return , but if you knew what I have become , a fearless old man with nothing left to lose , you would pay twice as much to have me kept away ! |
| 26 | In such cases , it was best to say one would go directly and to rush out of the room and hope the substitute finally brought would convince him this was what had been asked for . |