Example sentences of "[was/were] ask [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customers were asked to fill in a brief form stating whether they knew or had seen Mr McEvoy . |
| 2 | When the students were asked to pick out the photograph that most resembled them , they usually selected the most flattering one . |
| 3 | Patients were asked to write down the highest of three blows for the paper and pencil diary and to enter the values of all three blows into the computer . |
| 4 | At the same time , teachers were asked to make out a special report card on the child , itemizing health , academic standard , character , ability , and what they considered would be a suitable employment . |
| 5 | Under the Brady deal , the banks that made these swaps were asked to tear up the old loans and choose among three new deals in their place . |
| 6 | Mr Thomas Russell was asked to board up the back part of he building to keep out the rain . |
| 7 | But chance played an important part in this , placing Norah Brunt in the right place at the right time — she was asked to take over a retiring teacher 's movement class but refused to do so without a qualification . |
| 8 | In 1938 Cranmer was asked to take over the captaincy from Bob Wyatt . |
| 9 | It was through his partnership with Bertie Fisher that Meeke 's Opel connections were established in the early Eighties and when the Spanish arm of the operation needed assistance he was asked to take on a supervisory role . |
| 10 | The turning-point in his fortunes came in October 1861 , when he was asked to take on the printing and publishing of the Union newspaper , which was trying to bring Tractarian Anglicans into touch with Roman Catholics . |
| 11 | The American firm , United Research Group , was asked to carry out an efficiency study of the supplies department , which buys hospital equipment . |
| 12 | As a result the IMS was asked to carry out an initial study and advise on the feasibility of setting up a suitable PMIS for the BAA . |
| 13 | While the work carried out by Touche Ross is now open to criticism , in fairness , that firm was asked to carry out the work within an unreasonably short timescale . |
| 14 | At the December 1974 summit of Community leaders in Paris the Belgian premier , Leo Tindemans , was asked to draw up a personal report on the future shape of a European Union . |
| 15 | After completing the restructuring of British Steel , Finniston was asked to draw up the group 's first corporate plan . |
| 16 | When Melrose was asked to fill in a further application he refused to do so saying all the relevant information had been sent to NSWRU . |
| 17 | DURING one of his many interrogations by the police , Mikhail Ardzinov , the deputy chairman of Uzbekistan 's Human Rights Society , was asked to fill in a form with basic information about himself , including his address . |
| 18 | Since the imperial poet Da Ponte had fallen out of favour at the Viennese court , and had left in disgrace , his temporary successor Caterino Mazzolà was asked to freshen up the old warhorse for a new setting , while Guardasoni rushed to Italy to find suitable singers . |