We sat down to supper, and, being asked what I had already seen in Paris, I related everything I had done, omitting only my conversation with Patu.
Being asked what it was, he pointed to his belly, and spoke something of its being dead, at the same time saying, it was bad, as if he did not wish to answer any more questions about it.
The man, however, from whom we now had this information, being asked, if his countrymen eat the part thus cut out?
Being asked into my room, she declined to be seated, but said, "I heard you tell the story of your Mission in the City Hall, and I have been praying for you ever since.
Being asked by her governess what was the matter with her she said: "It was very naughty of me to disobey you, so I put my right shoe on to my left foot and my left shoe on to my right foot".
A little boy on being asked by his mother who told him something, answered, "Dolly".
Another child, a little girl in the same school, told her mother that she had seen a funeral last night, and on being asked, "Where?
On being asked what an editor had to do with a racehorse, he replied that "he was to be used in catching runaway subscribers.
Long afterwards, being asked by his father to become a Templar, he refused, telling what he had seen: his father instantly slew him.
Being asked why he did not then tell the truth, he replied, "Because I did not recollect it; but I prayed the senechal to allow me to confer with my companions, and when I had deliberated with them I recollected.
The message was rather a curious one, and its opening sentence evidently referred to the eccentric old lady whom I have mentioned as being asked to meet me at luncheon at Castle Rush.
Being asked in German what was the meaning of the shrieks we had heard, he said at once that a lady had been taken ill suddenly.
Being asked for a brief address, he spoke very readily, with a frank, honest face, and in a genial, offhand manner.
Being asked whether he had ever heard of any interruption or challenge made by Sir [Illustration: OLD ST.
On being asked to explain what motive could induce him to make this extraordinary demand for a foot-rule, Mat answered that he was anxious to proceed at once to the renewal of the cross-board at the head of his sister's grave.
Captain Edwards, being asked by Heywood--'Did I surrender myself to you upon the arrival of the Pandora at Otaheite?
On being asked what he supposed Christian meant when he said he had been in hell for a fortnight?
Fu-li, on a former evening, being asked, 'What is faith?
Being asked why he would obstinately persist in his opinions and leave his wife and children in distress, he replied, I shall not leave them in distress; I have recommended them to the care of an excellent trustee.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being asked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
