Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been ask for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 5 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 6 | Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him . |
| 7 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |