Example sentences of "[vb past] been ask [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Ministry would have been only too happy to hand you over stuffed and pickled if they 'd been asked in the proper way . |
| 2 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 3 | If I had been asked at Christmas whether my home waters of Chew and Blagdon would be full by opening day , the answer would have been an emphatic no . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 6 | In such cases , it was best to say one would go directly and to rush out of the room and hope the substitute finally brought would convince him this was what had been asked for . |
| 7 | I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion . |
| 8 | This reply , however , turned out to be incorrect , as teachers had been asked for pen-portraits of the children for use at the Panel Hearings , and the Acting Director of Education Mike Drever had supported the request . |
| 9 | The Social Security Advisory Committee had been asked for its solution to the argument about when men and women should retire . |
| 10 | There was no evidence as to what the Perots ' attitude would have been if they had been asked for more than $2.5m. for Caliban . |
| 11 | had been asked for his advice , had recommended someone , and been told to approach him . |
| 12 | The UGC had been asked for and supplied a list of existing two-year courses , of which there were few , and all required more than two ‘ A ’ levels as an entry qualification ( most were , in fact , conversion or second-degree courses ) . |
| 13 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |
| 14 | Mr Fallon had been asked for his help in December by worried Darlington firemen . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Flavia managed to recall that she had been asked to dinner and that the time was eight . |
| 17 | He did n't tell Stella he had been asked to the football match . |
| 18 | But the Treasury issued a counter-statement saying that nothing improper had been asked of civil servants by ministers . |
| 19 | Her heart was touched by what the duchess had offered her and by what had been asked of herself in return . |
| 20 | The turnout , across the Soviet Union as a whole , was 80 per cent , and of those who voted , 76.4 per cent declared in favour of the question that had been asked of them . |
| 21 | It was not , however , the first time that questions had been asked about Social Work Departments in Scotland . |
| 22 | There had been a meeting in a student dormitory , for instance , with a retired colonel , who had been asked about political repression in the armed forces . |
| 23 | The police had been asked by the organizers of the vigil to provide protection after an incident earlier in the evening when about 200 suspicious-looking men appeared outside the house where the vigil was being held . |
| 24 | Earlier Lord Aldington had been asked by his counsel , Charles Gray QC , about his war exploits as Brigadier Toby Lowe . |
| 25 | ' Another worker , who stood as a Conservative councillor , said she had encountered Mr Lawson at a reception last year and had been asked by the Chancellor why she had lost . |
| 26 | Ironically , five years earlier he had been asked by Eric Varley , the Labour Government 's Energy Secretary , to serve on the committee for overseeing the nationalisation of the company . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Norman Porter , the general secretary of the National Union of Protestants and at that time still a close colleague of Ian Paisley , had been asked by a number of conservative clergymen to stand against the Minister for Education in order to protest against amendments to the Education Act which increased and regularized state funding of Catholic schools . |
| 29 | Even Poole , the District 's own Organising Secretary in Norfolk and Norwich , had been asked by a Cambridge Board officer not to go ‘ … into towns or villages where there was or had been Extension work ’ . |
| 30 | I had been asked by Professor John Mills and Dr James Waterhouse of Manchester School of Medicine to record my temperature every waking hour . |