Sentence examples for certain gentleman from inspiring English sources

The other really big one in my career happened when I was working for a certain gentleman, and I used to ask a lot of questions.

A waitress was mystifyingly insistent on carding a certain gentleman whose graying temples lent him a distinguished air (hint: he's not the fruity-beer type).

When Kempton Bunton offered himself to the police in July, he had a statement with him explaining: "(1) My secret has leaked – I wouldn't like a certain gentleman to benefit financially by speaking to the law.

He claimed that he was the best inside left in the north east, except for a certain gentleman by the name of Raich Carter, who kept him out of Sunderland's first team.

By E. B. White The New Yorker, October 1, 1932 P. 11 The purchase of a sports plane, far from curing him of his taste for practical jokes, only added to a certain gentleman's repertory.

(Sorry, ladies and certain gentlemen, he cannot live with you).

I declined the invitation, preferring silence and a stiffer sentence to the displeasure of certain gentlemen I might have had to mention in my conversations with federal investigators.

"I had persuaded certain gentlemen to vote for that bill — enough of them to carry it," Cox replied, But I could not vote for it myself under the circumstances.

"You will get a call from certain gentlemen … And they will say, 'Look, you know, we want to continue to have contracts with you … there is an honours system as you know', all this kind of thing.

Many of us in Ireland will swallow hard on reading this, as we cast our minds back to the murder and mayhem that certain "gentlemen in the background" were inflicting at the time on what in those days we used delicately to refer to as "these islands".

Certain gentlemen emote style and deserve serious props for their wardrobe choices -- and Michael Jackson is one of them.