Sentence examples for were ordered about from inspiring English sources

Yesterday, historians revealed that as part of its programme to attract custom, the hotel organised regular "prison parties" in the cellars where guests wore obligatory striped prison uniforms and were ordered about by staff masquerading as truncheon-wielding warders.

To her, Dorothy was someone to be ordered about, someone who could help clean the house and perform unpleasant chores.

In addition to the evacuations being ordered in New York City, county and town officials on Long Island were ordering about 400,000 people to do the same, with some police officers going door to door to ensure cooperation.

(It costs about $20,000, and is ordered about three times per season).

She is ordered about and dragged into scenes that are none of her concern.

"This elephant does not like to be ordered about by others than its first mahout".

He said most toys are ordered about a year before they go on sale in stores.

The inquiry said staff treated Mr Bennett as "a lesser being... who should be ordered about".

Both share the same spirit – a desire to resist being ordered about and told what to do.

It was offensive, being ordered about n one's own home this way, having Henry referred to as a grasping old man, almost a drunk.

She is portrayed as the object of desire, she is ordered about and obeys, but her own character is seldom consulted.