Example sentences of "asked [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the work carried out by Touche Ross is now open to criticism , in fairness , that firm was asked to carry out the work within an unreasonably short timescale . |
| 2 | For example , you are often asked to write down the numbers of the questions answered in the order in which they are attempted . |
| 3 | B would fail to comply with this if , when asked for brake fluid , he knowingly passes A the oil , or when asked to tighten up the bolts on the steering column he merely pretends to do so Similarly , A would fail to observe the maxim of Quantity , the injunction to make one 's contribution in the right proportion , if " when B needs three bolts , he purposely passes him only one , or alternatively passes him 300 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Conservation is being asked to take on the burden of social policies for rural Britain . ’ |
| 6 | In each of the above examples the children have been asked to take on the role of " people who know " ; and it is this which gives them their stake in the drama . |
| 7 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |
| 8 | In 1938 Cranmer was asked to take over the captaincy from Bob Wyatt . |
| 9 | ‘ I bin asked to take over the choir like , for the concert , play the organ … . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ So , Mr Calder , you were n't really surprised at being asked to take over the job of chairman ? |
| 11 | Sunderland 's housing committee is to be asked to take over the property with a view to renting it to a would-be tenant who could buy it outright in future under the right-to-buy scheme . |
| 12 | Parents have in some cases been asked to take over the practice of hearing their children read almost exclusively , either at home or in school . |