Example sentences of "be ask [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunderland 's housing committee is to be asked to take over the property with a view to renting it to a would-be tenant who could buy it outright in future under the right-to-buy scheme . |
| 2 | Willie had already helped paint the scenery but had been asked to take over as prompter when Matthew Browne had been suddenly whisked off to boarding school . |
| 3 | Parents have in some cases been asked to take over the practice of hearing their children read almost exclusively , either at home or in school . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've just been asked to take over a leading role in a production that 's been playing in Stratford which they 're taking to the Barbican . |
| 5 | Swindon Town had a weekend off … but travel to Grimsby tomorrow … amid rumours that Glenn Hoddle has been asked to take over the vacant top job at Bristol City . |
| 6 | Football , and Swindon manager Glenn Hoddle has denied rumours that he 's been asked to take over the vacant top job at Bristol City . |
| 7 | When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … . |
| 8 | That would be an essential prerequisite for any United Nations force being asked to take over a policing operation . |
| 9 | ‘ So , Mr Calder , you were n't really surprised at being asked to take over the job of chairman ? |
| 10 | I was asked to lie over royal gems swindle |
| 11 | In 1938 Cranmer was asked to take over the captaincy from Bob Wyatt . |
| 12 | In May she was asked to take over as acting principal for six months in his absence . |
| 13 | But chance played an important part in this , placing Norah Brunt in the right place at the right time — she was asked to take over a retiring teacher 's movement class but refused to do so without a qualification . |