Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [be] ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I was asking , for a number of reasons I was asking for floor plans for our , you see . |
| 2 | After another six months I was asked to attend the physiotherapy department for treatment ; this did bring some relief , but only for a matter of hours . |
| 3 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 4 | A lot of the books I was asking for [ from project funds ] were already in the library . |
| 5 | Heads who are asked where that combination took its origin in their individual histories make it clear that it did not come from training . |
| 6 | Subjects who were asked the questions when under hypnosis made significantly more errors in their subsequent descriptions of events . |
| 7 | The Famous Grouse , like all the 1991 World Cup sponsors , had a first refusal option included in their contract ; in other words they are asked to make a bid for 1995 before the marketing agent goes to the open market . |
| 8 | In the circumstances I was asking a great deal . |
| 9 | The matters I was asked to advise on occupied my attention , and a great number of files , for a very considerable length of time . |
| 10 | Where it breaks down and you get a governing body that is split down the middle , where you get staff who tend to who might tend to go in an opposite way to the head teacher , where you get parents who are asked to make difficult decisions as with an opt out ballot , then I think that you have to look very hard at the way that that school is managed and the way that it 's going in the future , because those are the sort of issues that unless you get those right the future for the school can not be as bright as it is for one where they are working as a team . |
| 11 | At the same time , Heseltine also created a Financial Institutions Group , consisting of secondees from major companies who were asked to review the role of , and constraints upon , private-sector investment in the cities . |
| 12 | ‘ Others have understandably wanted to recoup their investment and the rents they are asking are more than a student can afford on a £750 a term grant . ’ |
| 13 | The hours you 're asking for is seven thirty pm to eleven forty five pm ? |
| 14 | And the hours you 're asking for are seven thirty P M to eleven forty five P M ? |
| 15 | And I 'm asked every well not say every day of the week but most weeks I 'm asked somewhere well where are you gon na start from ? |
| 16 | Before she went she shared with the fellowship group a vision the Lord had given her that she would meet a group of Christians who were asking for help with teaching and counselling . |
| 17 | For driver licensing purposes you are asked to declare your main forename . |
| 18 | For children older than 6 years they are asked if they can inhibit urination for an hour to teach bladder retention . |
| 19 | We tried to work the system , but at times of intensive spraying operations we were asked reduce our area of notification as large areas of the country were blanketed off to military operations . |
| 20 | You know damn well the questions that are being asked the questions I 'm asking : Is this case winding up or is n't it ? |
| 21 | One of the questions I was asked was , which historical figure did I admire most ? |
| 22 | What better time to take an over-view of the sort of things I am asked most often , and a look at how the commonest problems can be avoided ? |
| 23 | One of the things I was asked to write about this week I think was a radio , to , to write about er what I felt about radios , you know , er , erm , so anything could be thrown at you , and obviously I have my areas that I particularly interested in and I think sometimes I get a bit complacement and I 'm writing about a , I find particularly interested in and a bit lazy , so its quite good to be stretched . |
| 24 | When the child is able to speak , he can answer many questions which are asked gently and naturally to test how much he has learnt . |
| 25 | The questions which are asked about a still image tell us a great deal about the narrative interest in that image . |
| 26 | All the intriguing questions which were asked at the time , not least as to why she contributed , either deliberately or through naivety , to it becoming one of the sporting mysteries of the year in the first place , will have to remain unanswered . |
| 27 | You can generally tell this by the sort of questions you are asked ; |
| 28 | Heather Mallender started asking the same sort of questions you 're asking — and look what happened to her . |
| 29 | what I 'm trying to help you practise , cos we 're not , we 're very good at asking closed questions in conversations but do n't very often recognize , but you know , we , we we we , we 'll zip backwards and forwards , and that 's okay , but I want you to do consciously is know what type of questions you 're asking because you can sometimes be hitting a brick wall and thinking I 'm getting anywhere here and it 's because you 're asking too many closed questions . |
| 30 | Erm the questions you were asking just now were testing a possible implication that this policy is so weak in general , no no not weak , so general in its application that it really does n't get in the way , it 's testing that kind of hypothesis , and erm all I can say is from experience in North Yorkshire that , even without this policy since nineteen eighty , the county has been using its assertion of its need to protect the countryside generally as its policy position to stop things happening outside towns and villages and that with this policy in place we could see that a general position of the county maintained and then reinforced . |