Example sentences of "[noun prp] have asked " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matt has asked particularly for a device which can be interfaced with a computer so I have searched through my data library in order to find a short-list of suitable devices . |
| 2 | WEST Germany has asked the UN Security Council to meet to discuss the situation in Romania . |
| 3 | In my area of east London , the TEC has asked the careers service to canvass for places because the training providers are not coming up with them . |
| 4 | Today Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him , and I gave him an answer . |
| 5 | AIRLINE tycoon Richard Branson has asked his 3,000 staff to share jobs or take unpaid leave . |
| 6 | Branson has asked European Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan to launch an inquiry into the system of allocating airport slots . |
| 7 | Q : Valerie has asked me if you could answer a few questions on her behalf . |
| 8 | Well , Tam has asked the question but answered it elsewhere , writing that Crossman 's ‘ sense of his own position in the elite of the nation never deserted him ’ , and that ‘ he seldom if ever had any doubts about his place at the very epicentre of the British Establishment ’ . |
| 9 | On one occasion Mrs Singh had asked me to go with her to visit one of the boy 's teachers . |
| 10 | Mr Cunningham had asked Mr Lamont to ‘ extend taxation of income to members of the Royal Family who are currently excluded . ’ |
| 11 | I could guess that he might have asked me what Gharr had asked — what I was doing on Vadinamia . |
| 12 | Kuwait 's Oil Minister Hamud Abdullah al Raqaba disclosed that Kuwait had asked for an 800,000 bpd oil loan from the Gulf Co-Operation Council ( GCC ) , worth US$14,000,000 a day , to help meet reconstruction costs incurred by the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] . |
| 13 | ‘ No , ’ said Mrs Darrell violently to McAllister , who was dipping a curtsy , and beginning a stammering apology , but only because Dr Neil had asked her , not because she was sorry for what she had done . |
| 14 | When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) . |
| 15 | Dora had asked about sporting facilities in the region and been promised an interview with the manager of a leisure complex in Alès ; Rose , who belonged to an amateur drama group in Carshalton , was to meet the director of a forthcoming performance of ‘ son et lumière ’ whose office was in Anduze . |
| 16 | When he had come off the phone the night before and Erica had asked who it had been , he had replied , with a certain confidence and an audible distaste , ‘ Someone talking nonsense ’ . |
| 17 | Braun had asked the City Council to create , or at least support , the creation of a system of pathways which would connect the several museums bordering Museumsquare in order to encourage visitors to circulate . |
| 18 | In a letter to the summit meeting President Gorbachev had asked for immediate support for his economic restructuring programme in the form of credits , technical co-operation , personnel training , joint ventures and joint projects . ) |
| 19 | When David had asked her to clear the mess away , for fear of inciting his stepfather 's rage , Beth had astonished him by refusing . |
| 20 | Rachel 's heart skipped a beat at her first sight of him and if she had been trying to delude herself that David had asked her along purely for the sake of her new friends she was forced to dismiss it as his gaze met hers . |
| 21 | ‘ Whassamatter , Jazzbie , ’ Andrew Jean had asked , ‘ you a loca ladybug ? |
| 22 | LEAs had asked for £34 million for this year but were allocated £13.6 million . |
| 23 | Lucy had asked her to supper in her West London flat . |
| 24 | Lisbon diplomats said Portugal had asked the United States to try a new initiative to bring the two sides together . |
| 25 | The court heard that Baillie had asked another man to hide the gun and warned him that he could be the next to be 'blown away' |
| 26 | Maisie had asked her to ‘ look after the childer ’ , and that must be her main concern . |
| 27 | Angy had asked most of the questions at first … about Lou 's job with a fashion magazine , former acquaintances at college , recent visits to Uncle Vittorio and Aunt Rosina . |
| 28 | Father O'Malley had asked , head slightly bowed . |
| 29 | In mid-fury Edward had asked what day of the week she imagined it was , for at the time , in the highly coloured world of the argument , this detail had become of supreme importance . |
| 30 | In its evidence to the Ashby Committee , the WEA had asked for more grant-aid to finance ‘ a considerable increase ’ in the number of full-time staff . |