Example sentences of "[was/were] asked [to-vb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the name of self-help , the Masai were asked to pay for the waterworks by selling cattle . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was an enormous poster of various garden birds which I was asked to do for the school office . |
| 6 | Though he 'd come along , white carnation , wedding-ring and all , I reckon , if he was asked to play for the Firsts . |
| 7 | Instead , he was asked to train for the 400m , and won in world record time . |