Sentence examples for orders sir from inspiring English sources

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The cauffeur turned "Orders, sir?" he asked.

Mr. Truman then asked if he knew who he was talking to, Dr. G. replied "Yes, sir. I'll obey orders, sir".

On Henry's orders, Sir John Wallop crossed the Channel to Calais with an army of 5,000 men, to be used in the defense of the Low Countries.

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A third colleague remembered how, one evening, a waiter gravely asked her grandmother, "May I take your order, sir?" (Luckily, grandma had a sense of humor).

Amid fury from parents, authors and teachers' groups over the severity of the proposals last September, Mr Balls ordered Sir Roger Singleton "to check that the line was drawn in the right place".

Up to 20 soldiers stormed the barracks of the Papua New Guinea Defense Force in the capital, Port Moresby, early Thursday, detained the military chief and demanded that Prime Minister Peter O'Neill bow to a Supreme Court ruling ordering Sir Michael's reinstatement as leader.

Anything else today is out of order Sir Menzies Campbell Senior Lib Dems said at the time that Kennedy's health, largely related to his drink problems, explained why the Better Together campaign did not rely on him more heavily.

Some managers would decide it politic not to ask a playwright of Tony Marchant's standing to take a course largely intended for production staff; others are so memo-obedient they would order Sir Tom Stoppard to sit the exam.

Describing the report as "upsetting", the new cabinet minister said she would appoint a new school commissioner for Birmingham and ordered Sir Bob Kerslake, the former head of the civil service, to review governance within the city's council.

It was his son, Leopold II, a conspicuous figure sporting a large white beard, who ordered Sir Henry Morton Stanley, a British-American explorer, to venture into the Congo river basin, paving the way for Leopold's Congo Free State and the further colonisation of the African continent.MATTIAS CREFFIERGhent, Belgium.

Seymour claimed Butler "roared like a mad bull," pounded his fist on the desk, and snarled, "I am the military governor of this state — the supreme power — you cannot disregard my order, Sir. By God, he that sins against me, sins against the Holy Ghost".

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