Sentence examples for asked him to select from inspiring English sources

We asked him to select his favorite show-business pieces from the archive.

Before Mr. Ani was released, American guards asked him to select a sentence to describe his treatment by his captors.

Nathan Kernan, a poet, who collaborated with Mitchell on a portfolio of prints she made at the end of her life, in a catalog accompanying a Mitchell show at the Cheim & Read Gallery, recounts the time, shortly before she died, when she asked him to select poems to read at a friend's funeral.

On his computer screen, a series of multiple choice questions ask him to select the correct answer to algebraic equations using negative numbers.

So it wasn't too much of a stretch to ask him to select items from Restoration Hardware that would be at home in his overstuffed living room.

Now ask him to select a story a story slaved over and polished, edited and refined and perfected with infinite labor and ask him to lie there and read.

It decides the user domain of search by asking him to select an ontology and concepts to confine his search.

One day, in a fit of eccentricity, the millionaire summons his valet and asks him to select one shoe from each pair.

Asking him to select one book off a shelf of 20 books, however, can be overwhelming.

Recently, the Army Secretary asked him to chair a panel to select about two per cent of the Army's full colonels for promotion to brigadier or one-star general; through this assignment, Petraeus helped to identify the men and women who will lead the institution for the next decade or more.

We asked him to look back over his coverage, select a few of his pieces, and say a few words about how they came together, and how they might be read now, at nearly two decades' remove.