Example sentences of "was asked [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have forgotten how I picked up my copy , it may have been at a retreat which I was asked to lead at Pleshey . |
| 2 | ‘ After that , totally by chance , I was asked to go on the road with Mike and the Mechanics and it fitted around the 1989 work I was doing with the Floyd . |
| 3 | But , when I was asked to go on a demonstration years ago , I did n't because I just do n't see gender as a problem . |
| 4 | She said she was asked to go to the bank to sign away the house . |
| 5 | Before being taken on I was asked to go to Parma because the ‘ Big Boss ’ , as he was called , wanted to interview me . |
| 6 | ‘ It turned out to be extremely good for me because within twenty-four hours of leaving I was asked to go to Hollywood and prepare Scrooge for Paramount Pictures . |
| 7 | and I should warn you that once I was asked to go to a , a series of lectures in a certain cathedral on the seven deadly sins , because the Canon who invited me said he wanted a married man who was good on lust ! |
| 8 | Dr. David Spackman from Bloxham , who works in a surgery at Sibford Gower , was asked to go to Iraq to give medical attention to the thirty eight hostages the former prime minister brought home . |
| 9 | When in July , for example , he was asked to testify for the London Library against a rating valuation , he was visibly nervous before giving his testimony ( it seems , according to Rupert Hart-Davis , that he had been awake the whole night before ) . |
| 10 | At another house , the officer was asked to wait on the doorstep ‘ while the dog was put into the back garden ’ . |
| 11 | I went to the castle and was asked to wait in a comfortable room . |
| 12 | The refugee from Glasgow saw through , and stood up to , some famous middle-class progressives , was asked to spy on student Communists , was asked , by a girl at a party , to ‘ do something ! |
| 13 | The following example of a telephone dialogue comes from a study carried out by Elena Lieven and myself , in which one child ( the hider ) was asked to explain to a friend where she had hidden an object in a room in which the friend was sitting . |
| 14 | The introduction of the social fund raised issues for bureaux that the IPG was asked to clarify in the information items , thus demonstrating the breadth of understanding that the information writers are expected to have of problems in the field . |
| 15 | At the recent Annual Parish Meeting of Nether Wyresdale I was asked to press for the extension of the pavement at least as far at the end of the existing hedge . |
| 16 | Richard Baxter , during the one time he was asked to preach before Oliver Cromwell , had criticised him for weakening the Church by encouraging divisions . |
| 17 | She found that establishing her own goals based on her needs made studying that much easier and gave a purpose to the activities and assignments she was asked to do on the course . |
| 18 | It was an enormous poster of various garden birds which I was asked to do for the school office . |
| 19 | Shekhar was asked to continue as caretaker Prime Minister , pending elections in late May . |
| 20 | The government of Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki , of the Liberal-Democratic Congress , was asked to continue until the appointment of a new Prime Minister . |
| 21 | The sitting patient was asked to blow into a mouthpiece connected to a manometer held at 40 mm Hg pressure for 15 seconds and then to breathe normally . |
| 22 | On the following 18 October , he was asked to consult with his staff colleagues and such other veterinarians as he might think fit , ‘ with regard to the terms upon which the funds bequeathed by the late Professor Coleman for the advancement of Veterinary Science can be best appropriated … ‘ |
| 23 | The county surveyor , no less , was asked to report on the practicability of covering the verandah at the infirmary , and was also requested ‘ to have the bagatelle board put in order ’ . |
| 24 | In 1842 he was asked to report on the practicality of restoring the Brymbo ironworks in Denbighshire , which belonged to John Wilkinson [ q.v. ] but had been allowed to become derelict . |
| 25 | Then , on 9 July 1859 ( 11 years later ) Professor Spooner was asked to report to the governors on the state of the fund , and to ascertain who were the current trustees . |
| 26 | The Group was asked to report in two phases . |
| 27 | He was asked to put on it his daytime phone number , and to tick a little box which indicated that he was willing to receive phone calls from dealers with urgent share recommendations . |
| 28 | Every copywriter was asked to put in a list . |
| 29 | She was asked to draw on her knowledge of the subject 's life material and reply to each question , supplying evidence , as nearly as possible using the subject 's own words , that was sufficiently detailed for the answer to be evaluated properly against the original SADS-L criteria . |
| 30 | The British Museum was asked to participate in the certification of the sampling and the statistical analysis of the results . |