Example sentences of "[was/were] ask [to-vb] for the " in BNC.

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1 THREE appeal court judges were asked to rule for the first time yesterday that parents could sue doctors for negligence over the loss of a child though the fatal injuries had been suffered before birth .
2 In the name of self-help , the Masai were asked to pay for the waterworks by selling cattle .
3 Centres approved to offer the unit were asked to tender for the pilot and Stevenson College , Anniesland College and QTAC , the business arm of Fife College , were selected to run it .
4 When in July , for example , he was asked to testify for the London Library against a rating valuation , he was visibly nervous before giving his testimony ( it seems , according to Rupert Hart-Davis , that he had been awake the whole night before ) .
5 At the recent Annual Parish Meeting of Nether Wyresdale I was asked to press for the extension of the pavement at least as far at the end of the existing hedge .
6 It was an enormous poster of various garden birds which I was asked to do for the school office .
7 Though he 'd come along , white carnation , wedding-ring and all , I reckon , if he was asked to play for the Firsts .
8 Instead , he was asked to train for the 400m , and won in world record time .
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