Example sentences of "was [verb] mr " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for BR yesterday , its Press office said it was considered Mr McArdle had received an apology in the letter which arrived more than two months after his original complaint . |
| 2 | Mr Baker , the Home Secretary , was keeping Mr Major fully informed of developments . |
| 3 | It 's just that , well , I was passing Mr Connon 's house and I just looked over the hedge and I saw someone . |
| 4 | The objective of the operation was to arrest Mr with the proviso that it was to be done with the safety of the public to be paramount and that the safety of the police officers and Mr was also to be considered . |
| 5 | He said Mr Babangida was meeting Mr de Klerk in his role as Organisation of African Unity ( OAU ) chairman and to assist in the Codesa process . |
| 6 | There was er one named Miss , and the other one was named Mr . |
| 7 | I was serving Mr Farraday morning coffee in the breakfast room when he had said to me : |
| 8 | He was cleaning Mr Wood 's new car when Mr Gordon visited the farm . |
| 9 | Manning said he was told Mr McVeigh had been warned on four occasions not to supply goods to the security forces . |
| 10 | The hearing at Berwick-upon-Tweed , Northumberland , was told Mr Tipping ( 34 ) , of Cobham , Surrey , was unable to open either his main or reserve parachute — but witnesses were only able to speculate about the reasons for this . |
| 11 | The court was told Mr McNally had consumed more than three times the limit for driving . |
| 12 | Yesterday an inquest was told Mr Coulson was suffering from cancer of the lung and heart disease . |
| 13 | The hearing was told Mr Blenkinsop 's wife wife , Iris , 57 , who was in the front passenger seat , died of chest injuries . |
| 14 | Opposition efforts to table motions of no confidence in the coalition were rejected in the Dublin parliament last night on technical grounds , but it was thought Mr Reynolds would find it difficult to fend off further similar moves later this week . |
| 15 | All he had to do now was to let Mr Hogan know how distressed Mrs Hogan was and how he had saved the day . |
| 16 | The psychiatrist was called Mr Rose and was , as far as Marcus could remember from time to time , medium in height , medium brown in colouring and with a medium tenor voice when he spoke , which was infrequently . |
| 17 | We had our final assembly on the last day of term , there were four of us leaving and the headmaster who was called Mr Smith presented us with a book each . |
| 18 | When Neil Kinnock was doing Mr Smith 's job , his leadership was undermined by the unremitting hostility of sections of the media . |
| 19 | He was scared and shaking and was begging Mr Davies not to leave him . |
| 20 | The honourable gentleman said that was a straight question , I shall give him a straight answer , er no it would n't , er if I can return to the line of er explanation I was giving Mr Deputy Speaker . |
| 21 | The Prime Minister 's dramatic move was virtually a direct order to him to make contact and shortly afterwards it was announced Mr Delors would go to Number 10 at 12.45 pm after speaking at the London School of Economics less than a mile away . |
| 22 | Mr Abe , who was to succeed Mr Takeshita as prime minister before the Recruit scandal intervened , is not a healthy man ; he has had to return to hospital . |
| 23 | Lord Callaghan , then Labour 's foreign affairs spokesman , recently recalled that the party 's decision was to allow Mr Heath ‘ to swing slowly in the wind ’ . |
| 24 | That was to hang Mr on . |
| 25 | This meant that despite Meehan 's pardon , the proceedings to some extent would be a retrial of Meehan as well as a trial of Waddell ; and one of its more lunatic aspects was hearing Mr King-Murray as prosecuting counsel , who for two years had strenuously refused to entertain the notion of Meehan 's innocence and Waddell 's guilt , now deploying arguments to show that very thing ( although unlike Griffith-Jones at Ward 's trial , he did not seem to have his heart in it ) ; and conversely to hear Waddell 's counsel echoing the arguments of the prosecutor at Meehan 's trial to demonstrate Meehan 's guilt and Waddell 's innocence . |
| 26 | This was Miss Rachel Cordle daughter of Mr John Cordle and Mrs Harry Ross Skinner , who was marrying Mr Andrew Stormonth-Darling son of Mr Robin Stormonth-Darling and Mrs Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie . |
| 27 | Adèle was hoping Mr Rochester would call her down to meet the guests , but in the end she was so tired with all the excitement that she and I both went to bed early . |
| 28 | Well , he 's b the second part , he 's basing his opinion on clearly what the plaintiff 's case is about what he was , what he was telling Mr to do . |
| 29 | I think Mr misunderstood Chairman with respect that , that is n't what I was saying at all , what I was saying was had Mr not made his statement , this was the one that hopefully we would all of accepted . |
| 30 | To Victoria Roberts , a young full-time party worker from London , they were the only two in serious contention and she was backing Mr Heseltine : ‘ Mrs Thatcher is a strong leader , and we will need a moderate Tory who will be equally strong — there goes my career . ’ |