Example sentences of "[vb past] asked the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been . |
| 2 | Nicola is such a brilliant student I 'd asked the Royal Ballet to give her an audition . ’ |
| 3 | In July the prime minister of Belgium and a committed Europeanist , Paul-Henri Spaak , stated that he supported a European Assembly and announced that he had asked the European Movement to consider plans for such a body . |
| 4 | Robbie had asked the elderly housekeeper . |
| 5 | During the late 1960s I had asked the Civil Aviation Flying Unit ( CAFU ) to connect the pilot 's boom microphones in one of their HS 125 aircraft to a domestic tape recorder to see whether an acceptable quality of recording could be achieved . |
| 6 | Libya had asked the ICJ Court to " enjoin " the UK and the USA from taking action " calculated to compel and coerce " Libya into surrendering the two men . |
| 7 | Many parties ( including Civic Forum and PAV ) had asked the Interior Ministry to screen their candidates for possible collaboration with the StB in the past , and 166 candidates were reported to have withdrawn by the eve of the elections . |
| 8 | When the United Kingdom had entered the EEC , it had asked the major parties to nominate representatives to the Parliament . |
| 9 | He had asked the ultimate question — What is it for ? — and got the obvious , the only answer . |
| 10 | He had asked the young men if they had been to Germany — knowing they had not . |
| 11 | Seaspeed had asked the British Hovercraft Corporation ( BHC ) to make the cross-Channel SR.N4 more profitable . |
| 12 | The head had asked the educational psychologist to come and assess him with a view to producing a formal Statement of Special Educational Needs . |
| 13 | On his return from Scotland he had asked the French government to provide him with 18,000 men for a fresh attempt and had then visited Spain to seek help from Ferdinand VI , but , like Louis XV , the Spanish king was non-committal . |
| 14 | However , they were soon to show their hand and in October 1981 the DES announced that it had asked the local authorities to give urgent consideration to the possibility of setting up short-term machinery to deal with the management and funding of maintained advanced further education . |
| 15 | The Los Angeles Times had asked the local police chief why the riots had occurred : ‘ One person threw a rock , and then , like monkeys in a zoo , others started throwing rocks . ’ |
| 16 | The 14-year-old had asked the High Court to rule that she could live with her boyfriend 's family . |
| 17 | The 14-year-old girl had asked the High Court to rule that she could live with her boyfriend 's family . |
| 18 | The summary goes on to say that Stirling had asked the Eighth Army for thirty more jeeps that had already been ordered . |
| 19 | Councillor Bellamy had asked the same question , Carolyn recalled . |
| 20 | She had asked the same thing following the last two births , Hubert 's and Robin 's . |
| 21 | ‘ If you had asked the same plumber three times to fix a leak , and , every time he has been , he has pottered around a bit and he has gone away , telling you he has fixed it and there you are standing in the kitchen up to your waist in water , are you going to call the same plumber to fix it again ? ’ he asked . |
| 22 | On Nov. 11 , EC Finance Ministers had asked the Italian goverment to " stand ready to take additional prespecified measures " should projections prove to have been over-optimistic . |
| 23 | As long before as November 1966 , Jenkins had asked the Advisory Council on the Penal System to consider what changes and additions might be made in the range of non-custodial penalties that were available to the courts . |