The phrase "actually been asked" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize that a question or request has genuinely been posed or inquired about.
Example: "I was surprised to find that I had actually been asked to lead the project."
Alternatives: "truly been asked" or "really been asked".
He has the unusual habit of answering questions he has actually been asked.
Asked if Mr Bercow had actually been asked to participate in the project, a Downing Street spokesman said: "I am sure he is fully supportive of our efforts".
At first, I didn't understand a word of it and humiliated myself on several occasions by giving a clumsy answer to a question I hadn't actually been asked.
(After Kennedy said he'd actually been asked to lead such a commission, provoking dismay, the Trump team said that no decision had yet been made).
One survey found that although 63percentt of patients believe that doctors should ask about spirituality issues, only 10percentt have actually been asked.
Cleverly enough, the fund is devised to make it look as though every union member in the country has contributed; but, as usual, very few of them have actually been asked.
Contrary to stopping things we have actually been asking for things and leading the process and that started months ago".
"People have actually been asking whether I think it's a good thing for the show's box office that Trump is doing so well," she admits, a few days into the run.
"Now that I've actually been asking the questions, I've picked up people that, actually, looking back, I've known it for years and I haven't done anything about it".
What Clegg was actually being asked about was the UK's response to the UN's call for western countries to offer to resettle refugees from Syria.
It is as though they are saying, albeit without actually being asked, that dissent is unwelcome and only serves to give comfort to the "enemy".
