"Would you like a beer?" she asked politely, and held out one of the bottles.
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He asked politely for a turkey burger, then found a seat at a high-top table.
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They blamed the victim — he was asked politely to relinquish his seat before force was used.
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I asked politely where I should put the food, and he pointed to the living room table.
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When asked their ages by staff, they told the truth and were asked (politely) to finish their food and leave.
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We asked politely for networking conversations and check-in meetings with our bosses that fit into a half hour slot in the day planner.
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Another Democratic senator recounted being asked, politely, not to approach a GOP colleague on the floor in full view of the press in the gallery.
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On a late winter afternoon, a young man, who was making a delivery to the adjacent pharmacy, asked politely for a glass of water — which I served him.
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Leaving an interview with the talk show host Barkha Dutt, who is Oprah Winfrey-league famous in India, he turned to the man escorting him and asked, politely, who she was.
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The social imperatives to comply with a police officer's request persist even when people are properly informed of their rights or given a consent form to sign — or just asked politely.
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They asked — politely, gently — that the owner Stan Kroenke pay $250 million or so, but he could have offset most of that by claiming all the money from the stadium naming rights.
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"Would you like to take my girlfriend's window seat in the emergency exit row?" he asked politely, barely finishing the question before the woman was up and hurrying to her new, more spacious spot.
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She knew that it didn't make much sense to have a boyfriend at her age, but Cesar had asked politely, and people were usually intimidated by her, so she'd drawn the conclusion that at least he was brave.
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Soon Padme receives a message to go and visit the new inspector. With anger Padme visits the police station. He was asked politely by the inspector to stop selling illicit liquor. Padme nods with a smile and leaves the station.
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The American approached and asked politely if it was possible to have him - the President of the Federal Council of Switzerland - as a mountain guide. In his usual manner of being low-key, the president politely explained to the American that he was on a holiday with his wife to show her the natural wonders of the Swiss Alps and thus wasn’t the “mountain guide” the gentlemen had mistaken him to be.
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