Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been asked [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 2 | If I had been asked to decorate a flat to reflect McIllvanney 's character then I would have given him an East Belfast bar with sawdust scattered on the floor , King Billy strutting on the walls , and blood splattered across its tobacco-stained ceiling . |
| 3 | Whenever I 've been asked to take a sponsored parachute jump I 've declined , giving the excuse ‘ fear of flying ’ . |
| 4 | Incidentally I 've been asked to keep the talk fairly short , to avoid nodding off . |
| 5 | I have been asked to draw the attention of Wyre Borough Council to a burnt out car which I understand has been abandoned off the road near the reservoir on Nicky Nook , Scorton . |
| 6 | I find it very difficult to dwell on these serious — even gloomy — thoughts when the sun is shining , the winds light and I have been asked to take a party of visitors out for a boat trip . |
| 7 | I have been asked to do a couple of days work in Aberdeen sometime next month and also some part time development/fund-raising work for a charity ( The Association for the Preservation of Rural Scotland ) . |
| 8 | ‘ You know that I have been asked to give a course of sermons at St Basil 's ? |
| 9 | Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have received a summary of the report but I have been asked to obtain a copy of the complete report . |
| 10 | I have been asked to write an account of the social welfare programme of the Gulbenkian Foundation from 1964 to 1990 . |
| 11 | Q I have been asked to make an outside sign in timber for my bowls club . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been asked to supply the models and I would like you to be one of them . ’ |
| 13 | I have been asked to express the concern of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council about the safety aspect of the now derelict mill building on the Dairy Yard in Scorton . |
| 14 | I have been asked to send a copy of this letter to the local police station dealing with the accident . |
| 15 | Whether you 've been asked to open the discussion or not , you should prepare yourself for the tutorial as follows : |
| 16 | Unless you 've been asked to fill a longer time , aim at making your item three to four minutes in length . |
| 17 | Mrs. Steed 's statement , too , dealt with her lack of any recollection of the occasion or knowledge that she had been asked to sign a transfer of the property . |
| 18 | Until then her sole performance would be as guest of honour that evening at the Eastbourne Conservative Club , where she had been asked to unveil a bust in commemoration of Dr Bodkin Adams . |
| 19 | Imagine that you have been asked to translate the above extract for inclusion in a review of the book , to be published in one of the leading newspapers in your country . |
| 20 | IF you are a celebrity of some kind then the odds are that you have been asked to endorse a product of some kind . |
| 21 | Looking at it another way , imagine that you have been asked to make a bookcase in a craft lesson . |
| 22 | Erm for one world week on the twenty fourth of October and we 've been asked to do a stall there . |
| 23 | For this committee , therefore Severn we 've been asked to approve a revised estimate of five point nine five five million pounds , and an estimate next year of five point four , six , seven million pounds . |
| 24 | Originally , this was proposed as a two-year project but we have been asked to manage the Initiative until March 1991 . |
| 25 | We have been asked to provide a re-mark service , one or two of you seem to think you did n't do too well in April and would like to submit reworked tests — NO PROBLEM SPEAK TO SUZANNE . |
| 26 | ‘ We have been asked to produce a smoking gun . |
| 27 | They have been asked to sing a revised version of ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ written by an Australian radio station ( sample lyric ‘ I 'm not gay/but I 'm into leather … ’ ) . |
| 28 | As my son has again won great honour by his composition of the dramatic serenata , he has been asked to write the first opera for the coming carnival in Milan and immediately afterwards the second opera for the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice [ this second commission was never , in fact , carried out ] … |
| 29 | But Jim , bless him , had taken it with as little fuss as if he 'd been asked to feed the cat for a couple of days . |
| 30 | But then , a week later , she had a visit from a strange man enquiring for her father , and who , after being told of his demise , informed her he had been asked to sell the property for which he had felt able to assure her father he would get a good price , seeing that land around was scarce . |