Sentence examples for i was solicited from inspiring English sources

Many years ago, I was solicited for a very senior position with an advertising agency.

"I was solicited by one of the guardsmen".

Once when I was solicited by the person I was flirting with, part of me wanted to grab him and say, "No.

As a white middle-aged American man, I was solicited by eight female sex workers on my eight-block walk to the store, and by seven on my return trip to the hotel.

We were in bankruptcy and I was soliciting investment people.

On my second day at work, a vicar from whom I was soliciting news informed me kindly I had no chance of getting to Fleet Street without a university degree.

When he joined, he simply listed his occupation ("Because nobody knew who I was, and I was soliciting work on Twitter," he said in a phone interview) and weight, "because it's irrelevant to my job, and bodies make people feel uncomfortable, or at least mine does".

“I’d get business cards ripped up in my face because I was soliciting.” But with her easy charm, good looks and slick debating skills, she became, at age 25, Danka’s national sales trainer.

Now, whenever I am solicited by political volunteers for Democratic candidates, I always politely say, "No thank you, I'm a Republican".

Because of what I do, I am solicited by these people every day, and the messages they email me are outrageously misleading and dishonest.

I can't believe I'm soliciting for Road Runner, Time-Warner's Internet service.