Sentence examples for politely shown from inspiring English sources

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If she turns up to talk about near-Earth objects, she'll be politely shown to the transporter chamber.Dr Othman is attending a debate about political issues for the UN that arise from alien life.

She approached the caretakers and was politely shown the door.

As Laszlo puts it, he and his brother were "very politely shown the door".

One journalist making inquiries at the police headquarters was politely shown the door – but only after her ID and accreditation were photocopied and neatly filed.

After proposing that C.Z. Guest's Braques could be improved with bright red borders, Draper -- whom Frank Lloyd Wright dismissed as an "inferior desecrator" -- was politely shown the door.

("One of the curators at MoMA went a couple of weeks before and was given a cup of tea and politely shown the door," Gherardesca says ruefully).

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But the attendant, who doesn't recognise her, politely shows us the door.

Now it was a publishing industry that was as insular as he suspected, politely showing him the door one more time.

Even the original Superman always looked a bit like he was lying on his side on the floor of a big blue room, rather than flying through the skies, politely showing Lois Lane the view of Metropolis from up above.

In his obvious state of undress, he followed us around, chatting amicably as he pointed out the advantages of his home, and about 20 minutes later politely showed us out.

Not expecting to meet him so suddenly, I'd prepared no conversational gambit, coming up feebly with nothing more substantial than, "Mr. Gandolfini, where I come from in Nebraska, your last name would be pronounced 'Gandol-FINNY.'" He either politely showed, or skillfully feigned, interest in this pallid subject.

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