Sentence examples for request of someone from inspiring English sources
Called upon to discuss politics -- a huge request of someone with a high school degree in home economics -- she chose to speak in a slow, deliberate, grandly impersonal manner (missionary cadences later echoed by Coretta Scott King, Barbara Jordan and Jessye Norman) that could sound windily officious.
So why on Earth had I accepted the friend request of someone I've never met, someone creepy enough to comment on photos posted by my wife?
Google was unable to say, but inquiries made by Mr Peston suggested that it was most likely at the request of someone who had left a comment on the blog, rather than at that of its subject, former Merrill Lynch chairman Stan O'Neal.
No way in Helena should Haden have come to the field, at the request of someone on the sideline, to argue an unsportsmanlike penalty on Sarkisian (which was warranted).
"There was a request for someone who found a shipwreck pile of treasure, and we said, 'Well, we don't do that,'" he laughs.
Schofield created the character Kurtis Trent upon a request for someone who could become the focus of a spin-off franchise.
A well-developed vocabulary identifies basic types of exchange: omiyage (souvenirs), otsukaimono (token items presented when requesting a favor of someone -- utterly different from wairo, or bribery), omimai (get-well gifts), and okaeshi ("return" gifts).
He said he didn't really know the characters and described my request as "an example of someone's death anxiety," but after seeing Tom Hiddleston's birthdate (listed as Feb. 9, 1981), he said Loki would live because "he's Aquarius," and the "north node is in Leo" and the "south node is in Aquarius".
He went to the county clerk-recorder's office in Orange County and requested the birth certificate of someone he knew was born in the area.
Yet although Wilpon is a sentimental person, he has the ears of a man who has heard a lot of requests and the ease of someone with experience in deflecting them.
Start a conversation - Start with impersonal things like asking for directions or asking about interesting things to do, etc... Or offer to take pics of someone or request them to take yours.
