Sentence examples for gentleman asks from inspiring English sources

A gentleman asks for advice about how he could improve his business plan, before letting on that he is a grant-funded university worker.

The card which you find pinned to the menu describes the drink, names the price, and adds, "Only two to a customer, no gentleman asks for three".

The New Yorker, June 25 , 1927P. 9 Gentleman asks in drugstore for Epsom salts and then cotton, but clerk is unable to produce them.

An elderly gentleman asks for assistance, and then, extending a long bony finger, tells me the name of every family that lived in every visible house back in the nineteen-forties.

In "Inequality in the quest for feminism," (Page Two, April 9), Amelia Gentleman asks if feminists have become obsessed with equality in the corporate boardroom and the need to break through the glass ceiling to promotion, to the neglect of women workers on the other side of the income spectrum.

A gentleman asked Information for a telephone number.

This soft-spoken gentleman asked where I lived so he could mail me my phone.

Gentleman asked Red Cap if a certain train stopped at University Heights and Red Cap replied courteously, "Supposedly so".

A gentleman asked a cab driver to take him to the "Cathedral of the Motion Picture".

A softly-spoken gentleman asked in English if I was a fan of the novel.

The New Yorker, October 8, 1932 P. 9 A gentleman asked Information for a telephone number.