Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balmain had been asked by Woolmark to make up Lagerfeld 's coat design . |
| 2 | The pride she had shown when Eva had been asked to speak at meetings when she was home on leave . |
| 3 | Earlier Lord Aldington had been asked by his counsel , Charles Gray QC , about his war exploits as Brigadier Toby Lowe . |
| 4 | Aplin had been asking many questions about Putt , not only in connection with the robberies but with the rape of Anna too . |
| 5 | It meant that Mrs Constantine had been asked to attend a meeting and wanted to get out of it at all costs . |
| 6 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 7 | Julia had been asked to undertake registration . |
| 8 | Yesterday , the new leader of the MSF , Roger Lyons , said Mr Gill had been asked to hand back part of his nest egg to help out the union during the recession . |
| 9 | A problem had occurred with the equipment on Monday and ScottishPower had been asked by Strathclyde Regional Council to help . |
| 10 | Sylvia had been asked to arrange Sir Henry Irving 's dances for The Dancing Girl . |
| 11 | New York private dealer William Beadleston had been asking $725,000 for ‘ La Fleur de Barbe ’ , an oil on paper by Jean Dubuffet of 1959 . |
| 12 | The lord James had undertaken that the Sultan in Cairo should not contravene any article of the pact , and his emir Tzani-bey al-Ablak had been asked to give his word to that effect . |
| 13 | Allitt had been asked to help . |
| 14 | Mr Bruce said that the Social Work Director Paul Lee had been asked if the families ' lawyers could have access to all the interviews and medical examinations of the children that were performed for the Social Work Department . |
| 15 | A Russian grand duke was due to visit Vienna in September , and Mozart had been asked to write a German opera for the occasion . |
| 16 | ‘ He was very friendly and nice ; he wanted to know if Anna had been asked to come to the lawyer 's about her grandfather 's will . ’ |
| 17 | Davide had been asked to act as legal counsel for three candidates from Rupe , four from Corrado , and for some five others who appeared but wisely did not divulge their place of origin . |
| 18 | General Noriega had been asked to leave the Papal mission but would not be forced to leave , Vatican spokesmen insisted . |
| 19 | The route the Phillips had been asked to consider had already been put to them three times and was the same as the existing one , he said . |
| 20 | If Abraham had been asked " Who is Yahweh ? " he would undoubtedly have replied " God Almighty " or one of the other titles of God used by the patriarchs : |
| 21 | Warhol had been asked to play himself but he was still in hospital recovering from the attempt on his life . |
| 22 | Also on April 23 the Netherlands Foreign Ministry announced that three journalists and a trade attaché at the Russian embassy in The Hague had been asked to leave the country a month earlier . |
| 23 | ( And Baden-Powell had been asked to become the first chairman of the Juvenile Organizations Committee , established by the Home Secretary , Herbert Samuel in 1916 . ) |
| 24 | Auden had been asked by the Oxford University Press to prepare The Oxford Book of Light Verse , and he went along to discuss this with Williams at his office in Amen House . |
| 25 | The Attorney General 's spokesman said Sir Nicholas had been asked to look into the case after receiving a letter from an Irish TD . |
| 26 | The Attorney General 's spokesman said Sir Nicholas had been asked to look into the case after receiving a letter from an Irish TD . |
| 27 | If ever afterwards Creggan had been asked at what moment on that journey north he knew he was free he would have been able to answer precisely . |
| 28 | If Culley had been asked to guess a description of James Court 's house , he would have been almost right . |
| 29 | Mr Michael had been asked to arrange electronic sweeps of all office communication equipment in the interests of personal security . |
| 30 | Mr Fallon had been asked for his help in December by worried Darlington firemen . |