Example sentences of "[was/were] ask [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the students were asked to pick out the photograph that most resembled them , they usually selected the most flattering one . |
| 2 | Mr Thomas Russell was asked to board up the back part of he building to keep out the rain . |
| 3 | In 1938 Cranmer was asked to take over the captaincy from Bob Wyatt . |
| 4 | The turning-point in his fortunes came in October 1861 , when he was asked to take on the printing and publishing of the Union newspaper , which was trying to bring Tractarian Anglicans into touch with Roman Catholics . |
| 5 | The American firm , United Research Group , was asked to carry out an efficiency study of the supplies department , which buys hospital equipment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After completing the restructuring of British Steel , Finniston was asked to draw up the group 's first corporate plan . |
| 8 | DURING one of his many interrogations by the police , Mikhail Ardzinov , the deputy chairman of Uzbekistan 's Human Rights Society , was asked to fill in a form with basic information about himself , including his address . |