Example sentences of "he had been ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , five years earlier he had been asked by Eric Varley , the Labour Government 's Energy Secretary , to serve on the committee for overseeing the nationalisation of the company . |
| 2 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 3 | He had been asked specifically to look out for prostitutes in the back lanes near Sandyford Place . |
| 4 | He had been asked to appear at Reading Coroner 's Court on 2 October 1929 . |
| 5 | If he had been asked what Roland Michell was , he would have had to give a very different answer . |
| 6 | Eden , saying he had been asked to speak by the Cabinet , said ‘ they would remember him always — for his magnanimity , for his courage at all times and for his unfailing humour , founded in his unrivalled mastery of the English language ’ . |
| 7 | Edward Ellice , an MP for Coventry , said that he had been asked to accompany his friend Lord Elcho , and although he seems to have been a political ally of Elcho 's his view of Scott 's design was very different . |
| 8 | He had been asked a question on the influence of campaign promises and its effect on the election of particular candidates . |
| 9 | Principally the visit had been to see a senior boy with lifelong problems who had suddenly become unmanageable and would have to be admitted to an asylum , but while there he had been asked to assess Anna Beckett , a child who had moved him strangely . |
| 10 | It suddenly flashed into Jack 's mind that this must be Ho , Mr Chan 's son — the boy he had been asked to protect and whose existence he had virtually forgotten in the confusion of events . |
| 11 | The dean in his address expressed his pleasure in installing the new mayor , especially as he had been asked to serve as his chaplain during the mayor 's year of office . |
| 12 | Evans , who has transformed Cardiff from last season 's Welsh rugby no-hopers to this year 's championship contenders , said he had been asked to come back next year but personal problems might prevent him doing so . |
| 13 | Not long before all this , he had been asked how he felt about his sex-symbol image . |
| 14 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Karen Silk , defending , said : ‘ He was only at work because he had been asked to do an extra shift . |
| 16 | The elector was a promiscuous man : one of Wendling 's daughters was his ex-mistress , and Mozart wrote that he had been asked to play the piano to the natural children of the elector who were kept nearby in a separate establishment . |
| 17 | He had been asked what happened when he was making routine checks on a red Sierra car he and Special Constable Glenn Goodman , 37 , stopped on the A64 between York and Leeds last June . |
| 18 | He began by saying he had been asked to speak on censorship and that he had been upset by the reception meted out to Sinead O'Connor at the Madison Square Garden Bob Dylan tribute . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The question was a difficult one : he had been asked whether an unchaste priest should be allowed to resume his office after confessing his sin . |
| 21 | Ten days later he wrote to his sister saying that he had been asked to write an essay about Baldwin , but that he had refused , for he wished neither to lie nor to publish the truth , which he then proceeded to outline : |
| 22 | He had been asked to rewrite the words of The Rock , but he suggested to Ronald Duncan that he should do the job for him : " Watching the time he took to write even his signature , " Duncan noted , " it occurred to me that it must be a painful process for him to compose anything " . |
| 23 | He blushed guiltily , but the small part of his brain that had been vaguely monitoring the discussion alerted him to the fact that he had been asked a question by the executive producer . |
| 24 | He did n't tell Stella he had been asked to the football match . |
| 25 | It also involved a sensational TV interview martin Crowe had with his brother Jeff in which he revealed he had been asked to resign as captain on the fourth day of the third Test . |
| 26 | There were a number of contacts to make , both in New York and on the West Coast ; Cadogan 's was thinking of expanding to San Francisco to take advantage of the considerable artistic activity out there , and he had been asked to spend a week in reconnoitring and reviewing possible sites . |
| 27 | A year earlier , when the discovery dispute was at its height , he had been asked to comment on the documents he had seen so far . |
| 28 | On Jan. 14 Richard Goldstone , chair of an independent judicial commission of inquiry established in September 1991 under the terms of the national peace accord [ see p. 38422 ] , said that he had been asked by both the government and the ANC to investigate allegations of SADF complicity in killings in black townships . |
| 29 | He had been asked to speak some months ago on the subject , ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ . |
| 30 | He told conference delegates he had been asked by the BNFL board and the Government to continue in his post for a short period after March 31 as his successor — John Guinness , currently Permanent Secretary in the DoE — could not easily be released from that post until after the general election . |