Sentence examples for pardon I asked from inspiring English sources

Begging his pardon, I asked whether it didn't also say that John Jay had become coolly corporate, too.

"Pardon me," I asked a man behind the counter, "is it possible that anyone here might remember a man named Roger Corbett?" "It's not a name I know.

Dialogue overheard on a West Side I.R.T. train, between an elderly lady and a youth attempting to concentrate on a textbook: LADY: "How do you spell 'drought,' young man?" YOUTH: "Pardon?" LADY: "I asked you how do you spell 'drought'?" YOUTH, after a short, embarrassed pause: "Um" LADY: "D-r-o-u-g-h-t.

By Victor Perera and Burton Bernstein The New Yorker, September 25 , 1965P. 45 Dialogue overheard on a West Side I.R.T. train, between an elderly lady and a youth attempting to concentrate on a textbook: LADY: "How do you spell 'drought,' young man?" YOUTH: "Pardon?" LADY: "I asked you how do you spell 'drought'?" YOUTH, after a short, embarrassed pause: "Um" LADY: "D-r-o-u-g-h-t.

"Today, as a man, citizen and president of the Polish republic, I ask pardon in my own name and in the name of those Polish people whose consciences are shocked by this crime".

In his sermon at a Mass on Holy Thursday, he said, "I ask pardon of all whom I have offended, especially of those who suffered unspeakable abuse by priests of the diocese and experienced a lack of the care that ought to have been provided".

"Thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects.

Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects.

"Why on earth would you want to write to the home secretary and say, 'Please can I be pardoned'?" he asked.

Then, from inside, came the utterance, "No, thanks!" "Beg pardon?" the boy asked.

"I beg your pardon?" he asked faintly.