Example sentences of "[was/were] asked [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His vassals were asked to swear on the Gospels what these rights and obligations ( deveriis ) were , and the thrust of the inquiry appears to have been towards municipal and communal liberties . |
| 2 | Whatever actions they had carried out , now they were asked to return to the domestic realm . |
| 3 | Delegates attending the session in Torquay were asked to sit on the right-hand side of the room if they were in favour of the motion and on the left if they were against it . |
| 4 | We were asked to sit in the third and fourth rows and the lower school children filed in . |
| 5 | IN March this year , the Court of Appeal judges were asked to rule on the case of former public schoolboy Ryan Gormley . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | From January 1986 to January 1988 all women attending a single fertility clinic for the first time ( n=542 ) were asked to participate in the study . |
| 8 | Whenever the monitoring equipment was available patients were asked to participate in the study . |
| 9 | For the IM trial , subjects with intestinal metaplasia in previous gastric mucosal biopsies were identified from pathology department records and were asked to participate in the study . |
| 10 | Health authorities were asked to respond to the data they received and explain to their RHA any " outliers " , that is indicators appearing in the top or bottom l5 per cent of the national league table . |
| 11 | They were asked to talk to them and find out for themselves about the families who had been thrown into such torment ; they were asked to talk about the children and about their lives at home . |
| 12 | Startop , Drummle , Herbert and I were asked to go to the office at six o'clock the next evening . |
| 13 | In the name of self-help , the Masai were asked to pay for the waterworks by selling cattle . |
| 14 | Their flat was described as a garden flat when they came to see it , which was the only occasion on which they were asked to come into the garden , into which they were later told they had no right of entry . |
| 15 | After John died , when the Girls were asked to appear at the Royal Command Performance , she saw no reason why this show should be any different from the others and stood in her usual place at the side of the stage , hissing corrections at the Girls . |
| 16 | found that when right handers were asked to look to the left while hearing such sets of words , decisions were made on non-semantic grounds significantly more often than when subjects looked to the right . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The assistants were asked what help and training they needed in order to carry out their duties more effectively , and both head and class teacher were asked to comment on the same issues independently . |
| 19 | During the interviews , the sample were asked to comment on the treatment they received from GPs and also what they considered personally as the best method to ‘ come off ’ . |
| 20 | Sixth-formers were asked to comment on the Prospectus in terms of its content , layout , readability , positive aspects and drawbacks . |
| 21 | Volunteers were asked to help with the decoration of the hall and the tree . |
| 22 | or Civil Defence work were asked to meet at the village hall . |
| 23 | ‘ After that , totally by chance , I was asked to go on the road with Mike and the Mechanics and it fitted around the 1989 work I was doing with the Floyd . |
| 24 | She said she was asked to go to the bank to sign away the house . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | At another house , the officer was asked to wait on the doorstep ‘ while the dog was put into the back garden ’ . |
| 27 | The introduction of the social fund raised issues for bureaux that the IPG was asked to clarify in the information items , thus demonstrating the breadth of understanding that the information writers are expected to have of problems in the field . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She found that establishing her own goals based on her needs made studying that much easier and gave a purpose to the activities and assignments she was asked to do on the course . |
| 30 | It was an enormous poster of various garden birds which I was asked to do for the school office . |