Example sentences of "asked [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Michael Kelly , the director whose company is responsible for Celtic 's public relations , yesterday confirmed that the manager has been asked to report back to the board with his observations on how the club 's performances can be improved .
2 erm Students will be asked to report back to the next erm sub-committee
3 But he was very expensive and conceded 63 runs in eight overs , which made one wonder why left-arm spinner Davis , whose five pre-lunch overs cost only 18 , was not asked to bowl again in the innings .
4 Or as a laboratory supervisor , who was asked to go along with the manufacture of ‘ doctored ’ data so as to secure a contract deadline put it ( Vandivier 1972:22 ) :
5 I have been asked to comment particularly on the applicability of some of these to the publishing trade .
6 The panel will be asked to come up with the best all-time team on earth after viewing Pele 's new six-part , 12-hour range of football films .
7 The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris .
8 And now they were being asked to come out in the open .
9 Subjects were asked to look either to the left or to the right while choosing the odd one out from among three Hebrew words .
10 Erm you were asked to look carefully at the music of the first two bars then write the music of bar three .
11 EMPLOYEES at Springfields are being asked to help out at the site 's retired employees ' party on Friday , April 10 .
12 You should not sign the form until the time of enrolment when you will be asked to do so in the presence of the Enrolment Officer .
13 It may be the case that we are capable of deriving a specific conclusion ( 7c ) from specific premises ( 7a ) and ( 7b ) , via deductive inference , but we are rarely asked to do so in the everyday discourse we encounter .
14 He was not in the habit of examining patients ' heads for vermin unless asked to do so by the superintendent-nurse , in which case he had always directed that they be disinfested .
15 The articles opened with the comprehensively damning statement that the king ‘ is not sufficient to govern ’ because throughout his reign he had been led and governed by others who had given him evil counsel , to the dishonour of himself and the destruction of Holy Church and his people , and he had refused to provide any remedy , or to allow one to be made , when he was asked to do so by the great and wise men of his realm .
16 In the event of armed conflicts between different nationalities , the national army " can act independently as mediator to ease the dispute even without being asked to do so by the administrations concerned " .
17 The Consumer Protection Act also makes a supplier liable if he fails to identify the producer within a reasonable time , having been asked to do so by the claimant .
18 Firms may decide that it is necessary to spend more of their own money on security — or be asked to contribute more to the cost of police protection .
19 Unbuttoning her coat , and unwinding her scarf , she reads over his shoulder : ‘ Day of Action … protest against cuts … erosion of salaries … pickets will be mounted at every entrance to the University … volunteers should give their names to Departmental representatives … other members are asked to stay away from the campus on the Day of Action . ’
20 However , the best man is sometimes asked to stay behind at the church , organizing transport and ensuring that the last guest does not get stranded when all the cars have departed .
21 Every member is asked to PRAY DAILY for the world mission of the Church .
22 Mr Klesch is thus being asked to step in as the disinterested negotiator .
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