Sentence examples for Understood, sir from inspiring English sources
A Hollywood gentleman stopping at the Savoy-Plaza asked the telephone girl to connect him with the Algonquin, where he understood Sir Cedric Hardwicke was staying.
A member of Sir Gladwyn Jebb's United Nations staff recently had an engagement to meet Sir Gladwyn one evening at what he had understood Sir Gladwyn to say was "Die Fledermaus".
By Harold Ross The New Yorker, May 27 , 1950 P. 21A Hollywood gentleman stopping at the Savoy-Plaza asked the telephone girl to connect him with the Algonquin, where he understood Sir Cedric Hardwicke was staying.
By Robert Hale and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, December 12 , 1953P. 37 A member of Sir Gladwyn Jebb's United Nations staff recently had an engagement to meet Sir Gladwyn one evening at what he had understood Sir Gladwyn to say was "Die Fledermaus".
Mr Clarke said he understood Sir Nicolas's "defensiveness", but member states had a duty to make sure the court operated efficiently.
But I do understand Sir Gerald.
If you want to understand Sir Michael, just look round here.
(His grandfather could understand Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the middle-English text written in Cheshire dialect, without footnotes).
"I just can't understand, sir, why you at times are sitting up there, under these circumstances, on trial for murder, laughing".
I can understand Sir Antonio's irritation at changing manners among singers and frequent cancellations, but he should perhaps shrug, and understand what a great moment he has helped to create.
