Sentence examples for could be of service from inspiring English sources

A man of about sixty approached and asked if he could be of service.

There are a number of other clubs in far more competitive leagues where he could be of service.

Noticing him wandering around the bellhop sprang to the attention and asked if he could be of service.

"I'm going to use next year to think about the ways I could be of service to the university, to the nation, as a volunteer," she said.

Here and there, a solo number ("Because," in particular) could be of service to a cabaret performer with an interpretive gift.

Readers of spy novels sometimes used to imagine that they could be of service to their governments, since they knew cold the ways of the K.G.B. and understood various tricks of transportation in the Urals.

"We felt we could be of better service to our clients by being independent".

But when Election 2000 rolled around, Mr. Nethercutt broke that promise, saying he felt he could be of greater service to his state by remaining inside the Beltway.

H. Freed and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, January 31 , 1948P. 15 A neatly dressed old lady was picking her way through the bookstalls at Brentano's and a salesman asked if he could be of any service.

The New Yorker, January 31 , 1948P. 15 A neatly dressed old lady was picking her way through the bookstalls at Brentano's and a salesman asked if he could be of any service.

Indeed, he maintained that the emotionally evocative nature of the blues could be of tremendous service to church music, working toward the "same feeling".