Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] asked [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | It was an enormous poster of various garden birds which I was asked to do for the school office . |
3 | 10 Which of these animals would you choose to be with if you were asked to pose for a magazine photograph ? |
4 | There might be a real risk of embarrassment to his full-time employers if he were asked to act for a client in his spare time who was on the other side of a case in which his main employers were engaged . |
5 | 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 ) . |
6 | Instead , he was asked to train for the 400m , and won in world record time . |
7 | Though he 'd come along , white carnation , wedding-ring and all , I reckon , if he was asked to play for the Firsts . |