Example sentences of "sir [noun] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OPPOSITION MPs today demanded an urgent Commons statement as disputed claims about the role of Sir Patrick Mayhew in the arms-to-Iraq affair threatened to engulf the Government . |
| 2 | My computer is still analysing the guest lists to determine whether a Sir Denis Compton for the Tories cancels out a Melvyn Bragg for Labour . |
| 3 | A War Cabinet , consisting of Mrs Thatcher , Whitelaw , Pym , Nott , and Cecil Parkinson , assisted by civil servants such as Sir Robert Armstrong , Sir Anthony Acland , and Sir Frank Cooper , along with Admiral Sir Terence Lewin of the Chiefs of Staff , directed operations , At this kind of uncomplicated executive command , the Prime Minister excelled : her instinct for isolated decision-making was now a strength , not a weakness . |
| 4 | I also saw the statue of Sir Winston Churchill outside the Houses of Parliament and the monument to Edith Cavell ; I have a book about her life . |
| 5 | A pilot scheme was introduced but Unionist indignation was fierce , led by Sir George Younger for the brewers . |
| 6 | Nor is Stephen Wall , the Foreign Office man who has been picked to replace Sir Charles Powell as the foreign-affairs adviser at Number Ten . |
| 7 | He was born in 1898 and one of his earliest and most vivid memories was of seeing Sir Henry Irving in The Bells , an event which sparked off a life-long passion for the theatre . |
| 8 | ‘ The class of lads and young men who spring up in every city ’ , wrote Sir John Gorst in The Children of the Nation ( 1901 ) , ‘ have emancipated themselves from all home influence and restraints . ’ |