The phrase "asked to fetch a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when someone is requesting or instructing another person to retrieve something specific.
Example: "She was asked to fetch a glass of water for her guest."
Alternatives: "requested to bring a" or "instructed to get a".
If asked to fetch a tool, he would forget which tool was needed before reaching the store; his supervisor began providing him with a picture of it.
If she is asked to fetch a new toy with a word she does not know, she will pick it out from ones that are familiar.
There followed this dialogue (recounted in Cockfield's 1994 book The European Union: Creating the Single Market): Thatcher: "It was not". Cockfield: "It was". Thatcher: "It was not". Cockfield: "It was". A private secretary was then asked to fetch a copy of the treaty.
Can you imagine I don't like that any more than the speaker who was asked to fetch a Coke.
That is, when Rico was asked to fetch Sirikid (a novel word for the dog) from a set that comprised several familiar objects and one unknown object, Rico correctly identified the novel object as the referent of the novel label (Kaminski et al. 2004, see also Pilley and Reid 2011).
When asked to fetch Bamboozle, a stuffed orange horse, she is easily able to pick it out of a lineup of other toys.
This is how it starts: You're an intern, and you're asked to fetch lunch for a senator because the guy who does it is out.
You mean like a real pilot?' As if there were any other kind," she huffs, recalling with some disdain all the cups of coffee she's been asked to fetch when mistaken for a flight attendant.
We have observed parents being asked to fetch fruit juice for an admitted child to drink with the prescribed drugs, and a mother being asked to pay for tea for a provider who felt tired and refused to begin the consultation until he had received it.
In 2009, Asia Bibi, a 45-year old Christian woman with five children, was asked to fetch water while working as a farmhand.
That was something I recognized in my early twenties, as I grew dissatisfied with the marginal positions I kept finding myself in purely because I'm a woman – being asked to fetch coffee, deliver messages, take notes, often by people over whom I had seniority.
