Example sentences of "be ask [pers pn] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's certainly possible to work with drama students in this way , although it 's very important to be fair and clear about what you 're asking them to do . |
| 2 | Lassies today , they 're getting them , th they 're asking them to do too much . |
| 3 | Except that Glinwood would n't do what you 're asking me to do . |
| 4 | Are you going to put Council Tax up two hundred pounds , because to , to , to meet all the demands of Council , well that 's the sort of thing you 're asking me to do . |
| 5 | You 're asking me to do what I 've done ! |
| 6 | They , they know what they have to do to protect that stock , to protect their life 's interests and they , and they know they do n't need to be told really by any officer here who are not in that not , not in that game , what they have to do that 's what they 're asking us to do and they certainly asked us to do that on the erm , on the tour of county farms that we had only , only a few weeks ago . |
| 7 | as if we 're asking you to do our work . |
| 8 | Yeah , they 're asking you to do a survey thing . |
| 9 | Liverpool Labour group member George Knibb said : ‘ What we are asking you to do is for what you believe in for the miners to commit yourselves to for your own workforce . ’ |
| 10 | Sensing some anxiety on my part about your reaction to the work I am asking you to do , you tell me . |
| 11 | ‘ Because what I am asking you to do is become the paid companion to la Principessa . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm asking you to do something for me . |
| 13 | You return the twins to me and I wo n't blame you one bit for failing , because all I 'm asking you to do is to try . |
| 14 | " Doctor , " she replied , " All I 'm asking you to do is find something to break my eggs . " |
| 15 | The only thing I 'm asking you to do is put them in the diary now . |
| 16 | That 's all I 'm asking you to do . |
| 17 | And that 's all I 'm asking you to do . |
| 18 | They respected him , too , of course , as one of the greatest players since the war , and knew that , as a top-flight batsman and a bowler who could be both slow and fast-medium , he would not be asking them to do things he had not already achieved himself . |
| 19 | You will be asking them to do something difficult and unusual for them . |
| 20 | Here are some words which are commonly used in essay and exam questions , grouped according to the basic types of writing which they might be asking you to do . |
| 21 | Okay well soon I will be asking you to do them in your head but |
| 22 | Nobody 's been asked me to do this . |
| 23 | Erm we will , course we will give consideration to erm a further issue which I think is what you were asking us to do . |
| 24 | Do n't know what you were asking us to do we were a bit unsure of |
| 25 | Did you feel the pressure of having to ask the questions till then , when , when they were asking you to do it to plans ? |
| 26 | ‘ I believe the Lord is asking me to do a Discipleship Training School ( YWAM ) . |
| 27 | Even where you have to answer set questions — as in an exam — a choice between alternatives usually has to be made ; and not only do you have to pick a particular question to answer , but you also have to decide exactly what it is that the question is asking you to do . |
| 28 | Similarly Fawn Hall , asked by North to alter memoranda to conceal his work for the contras , remembered feeling uneasy : ‘ but I believe in Colonel North , and I know that there must have been a good reason why he was asking me to do this , and I — I did as I was told . ’ |
| 29 | And the day I have games was asking me to do fifty pick-ups run around the circuit five hundred |
| 30 | Dandelion looked at Pipkin and realized what it was that Hazel was asking him to do . |