Example sentences of "asked the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos to be really eager because she said erm that she 'd asked the bloke about staying on permanently and everything and he said that it seemed the people who they were most impress impressed with after Christmas that can stay on permanently so we said on the end , you 've got ta be really eager and everything so she apparently was asking loads of questions |
| 2 | Alison Wardley , 25 , who left her post last September , is said to have asked the princesses to be bridesmaids and invited the Duchess of York to the April wedding in Withington , Manchester . |
| 3 | They 'll be edited by David Irving , but after new allegations that he 's a Nazi sympathiser , the paper 's asked the Oxford historian Norman Stone to look at them too . |
| 4 | I have asked the ABI to consider whether there is scope for offering discounts to car owners who fit effective security devices after initial sale . |
| 5 | When the jury handed in their note the judge should have asked the jury to retire . |
| 6 | If the judge thought that the remark was wrong or even unprofessional he should have asked the jury to leave court and dealt with the matter by perhaps a reprimand or a verbal rap over the knuckles , followed by sensible discussion as to what should be done . |
| 7 | In a mild voice he had just asked the porter to come up , with some story about a tap dripping in the kitchen . |
| 8 | On July 4 Defence Minister Moshe Arens told a visiting group from the Zionist Organization of America ( ZOA ) that Israel had asked the USA to increase its annual military grant by US$700 million to US$2,500 million to ensure that it maintained a " qualitative advantage " over its Arab neighbours . |
| 9 | Gordon Brown , Labour 's shadow to the Treasury chief secretary , said yesterday that he and Jack Cunningham , Labour 's environment spokesman , had been shown additional internal Government papers which proved that the Conservative Party had asked the Treasury and individual departments to cost Labour 's policy review according to Tory Central Office assumptions . |
| 10 | They said that they had asked the Treasury to give " careful consideration " to the various fiscal measures recommended by the committee . |
| 11 | Cavell says you 've been invited to the awards ceremony , and she 's asked the organisers to seat us together . |
| 12 | So can I ask those of you you know to think carefully about what you want to contribute a particularly those of you who who have asked the panel to come forward with a recommendation on a location for a new settlement . |
| 13 | I 've asked the union to take up the case for me . ’ |
| 14 | Somebody 's asked the price you pay for genius |
| 15 | A settlement of the longstanding dispute could lead to the United Kingdom reducing its military commitment to the country , although Price had asked the UK to remain as a guarantor against possible Guatemalan aggression . |
| 16 | And David Lee , spokesman for the Football Supporters ' Association said : ‘ We have asked the PFA to support the protest by asking their members to sit down for one minute on Saturday . ’ |
| 17 | A HIGH Court judge has asked the public to help in the search for a small boy snatched from his nursery school by his mother . |
| 18 | It 's a compliment that Rover have asked the Faringdon factory to build the new bodyshells . |
| 19 | If we are dealing with a regression to what may be a former lifetime , then , having asked the patient to go back to a period with which his subconscious mind feels comfortable , I like to help him to create the picture of his former personality little by little . |
| 20 | A defence of acting in her best medical interests fails : he could have tried to find a female gynaecologist , and , indeed , his female house officer had already examined the patient ; a pelvic mass could have been shown by ultrasonography ; if it was necessary to exclude pelvic disease a laparoscopy could have been performed before the appendicectomy ; it is doubtful whether the examination under anaesthesia served any purpose as tenderness could not be elicited ; and , finally , he could have asked the patient first whether an examination under anaesthesia was an acceptable compromise . |
| 21 | At the end of 1866 he had asked the Governors for a testimonial , as he was applying for a post in the Midlands : |
| 22 | The ICC have now asked the MCC law-makers to see if the rules relating to unfair play can be tightened up . |
| 23 | DIME Projects began when Geoff lectured at the University of Stirling and when he retired the separation of DIME from the University realised money which Geoff has now asked the SCCC to manage . |
| 24 | Mrs Bottomley has asked the committee to make recommendations to her by the beginning of 1994 . |
| 25 | But if you are asked the history of the action of assumpsit , do not begin with a paragraph on the medieval precursors of assumpsit -debt , detinue and account . |
| 26 | The man had asked the girls to go to his room , and they had refused . |
| 27 | So Iraq has now formally asked the Turks to shorten the cut-off period but the Turks reply that they have been releasing more water down the river and the Iraquis should have been able to build up stocks . |
| 28 | THE National Olympic Council in South Africa have asked the South African Rugby Union to postpone the five-match tour of Romania and Italy in June . |
| 29 | We have to rebuild our strength and we have asked the South African RFU to help us . |
| 30 | The Everhart Museum of Scranton , Pennsylvania , has asked the Orphan 's Court for permission to sell Matisse 's ‘ Pink Shrimp ’ ( est. $3–4 million ) , now on view at the MoMA retrospective , at Sotheby 's on 10 November , in order to fund an endowment for operating costs and acquisitions . |