Sentence examples for get the reply from inspiring English sources

I've tried asking him for ideas on how he might like to try green beans, for example, and I offer to give him recipes, but I always get the reply that nothing sounds appetizing.

In Marty (1955), Mantell, as Angie, keeps asking his best friend, Marty (Oscar-winning Ernest Borgnine) in a broad Brooklyn accent: "Well, what do you feel like doin' tonight?" only to get the reply: "I don't know, what do you feel like doin' tonight?" and so on.

I was surprised to get the reply that they couldn't tell me about any - because they haven't got any relevant recorded information.

That is very rare and even in our own unit [oncology] when I approach a colleague and say 'Gosh, this patient is a palliative patient, did you already take this and that measure into account, or shouldn't we at least talk about that?' - than very often I get the reply 'No, he is still receiving this and that [curative treatment] and here we absolutely do not talk about "palliative", yet.'".

When you get the reply, you will have to be patient until Wikivisual puts the images on the article.

"He couldn't wait to get to the mailbox to get the replies," Mr. Askin said, describing Trumbo's approach to correspondence in a recent phone interview.

He got the reply: "Absolutely every little helps".

John McPhee remembers once asking Straus for an advance and getting the reply "Fuck you".

She said she asked the shop assistant: "One more time" but got the reply: "Oh, I don't want to hurt your feelings" she said.

Porter remembered that he'd once asked his former trainer about Jones, and had got the reply "He's a hell of a horseman," the highest possible praise.

Another story has it that a surgeon was going to give up on his bullet-riddled body, until he asked him what had happened and got the reply, "I was kicked by a donkey".