Sentence examples for were promptly asked from inspiring English sources

Okonedo and her mother jumped in the air for joy, and were promptly asked to be quiet by a security guard.

Embassy officials told the police officers that they had crossed out of their jurisdiction, and the officers were promptly asked to leave.

During Saturday night's Democratic debate, the candidates were promptly asked to address the breach of the crucial voter data file controlled by the Democratic National Committee, in which Bernie Sanders staffers were caught snooping in confidential files owned by Hillary Clinton's campaign, prompting the party to temporarily cut off the Sanders campaign from access to all voter data.

The groundsman was promptly asked to pack up his belongings.

He was promptly asked to join the Small Faces, replacing their former keyboard player, Jimmy Winston.

So when Sissy from Sleary's Circus joins his children's class, she's promptly asked to leave again.

It worked for Grace, who was promptly asked out to a day at the races by Tommy.

He was promptly asked by the locals, in just about so many words, when exactly he was anointed king of the colonies.

You arrive at a dinner party and are promptly asked to strip down to your skivvies and don a pair of pajamas covered in steel wool.

Hardman was promptly asked on Twitter if she flirts for stories – the old "ah, but you were asking for it?" defence – or accused of fussing about nothing much.

Last week, after the thirty-one-year-old American skeleton racer Noelle Pikus-Pace won a silver medal, she went on the "Today" show, where she was promptly asked about a miscarriage that she'd had a few years back.