Sentence examples for receive a visitor from inspiring English sources

While not unhappy to receive a visitor, he seemed confused.

Reached by phone there, Ms. O'Donnell's press secretary, Chris Merola, said that the headquarters wasn't yet open and that the campaign might be able to receive a visitor there "sometime in the future".

There are not many countries whose stories are so intensely bound to the character of a single person, much less a person with no tangible power, not even the power to leave her house or receive a visitor or make a telephone call.

If it's any consolation, many prisoners languishing in isolation in prisons throughout Iran are not lucky enough to receive a visitor, even one bearing a threat, before they are sent to the gallows.

Eligible for inclusion were those adolescents who were of Moroccan or Dutch native origin (i.e., for the Moroccan adolescents this meant that at least one of their parents had to be born in Morocco, for the native Dutch that both parents were born in the Netherlands), who remained in the juvenile justice institution for over a week, and who were allowed to receive a visitor.

Receiving a visitor in his farmhouse five miles from the town center, he seems somewhat less sure.

In 2011, as Imelda Staunton rehearsed for a revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at the Chichester Theatre, she received a visitor backstage.

One afternoon in mid-October, Zalmay Khalilzad, the American Ambassador to Iraq, received a visitor in his office at the United States Embassy in Baghdad.

In the summer of 1989, in Royston, England, a man named William Barrington-cheerfullyreceivedeceived a visitor from Germany: Ernst Lumpe, a high-school teacher, fervent music lover, and record collector.

Last week, as the rumours swirled, Mamlouk received a visitor in his Damascus office for a one-hour meeting, the Guardian has learned.

MIDWAY through a new novel, "The Wind Done Gone," Alice Randall's retelling of "Gone With the Wind," the narrator receives a visitor from her past.