Sentence examples for is supposed to have asked from inspiring English sources

'What are you thinking of?' he is supposed to have asked.

Frank Sinatra, who plays Marco, the only friend Raymond has, is supposed to have asked his friend Jack Kennedy for his approval before Frankenheimer's movie was released.

"Hey, Buddy," an American passenger is supposed to have asked the chef, "is this Brazilian coffee?" "No," he is alleged to have responded, "that's Irish coffee".

Harvard once considered hiring Nabokov to teach literature; Roman Jakobson, then a professor of linguistics there, is supposed to have asked whether the university was also prepared to hire an elephant to teach zoology).

Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack the city, is supposed to have asked Cyrus, "What is it that all those men of yours are so intent upon doing?" "They are plundering your city and carrying off your treasures," Cyrus replied.

(When Einstein first published his complete theory, it was considered so difficult to understand that only three people in the world were supposed to have mastered it. On being asked about this, Eddington is supposed to have asked, "Who's the third?") Nonetheless, relativity has been widely applied.

He turned then to one of the immensely dirty-looking, fleshy, pale-skinned girls crouched farther back in the grimy door stoop, smoking (this girl had a crude cross tattooed into her forehead like Charles Manson is supposed to have), and asked, "Have you lost a little white-and-black puppy with simple markings, Samantha.

"Why is Kennedy so idle?" Blair is supposed to have once asked.

Grayson, one of the parents of children he is supposed to have raped, asks her to help him kill Dan, and it is not just distaste for vigilantism that makes her decline.

When an earnest undergraduate quizzed the aged E M Forster about the good life, the novelist is supposed to have replied: "Don't ask about the good life.

Some people have found The Marriage of Figaro distinctly tiresome because of that; "Is that the one with the pin?" the Queen is supposed to have said when the Royal Opera asked her to pay a visit during Jubilee year.