Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun] ' company " in BNC.
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| 1 | " We can not close the report without mentioning the great satisfaction expressed by the Mayor and Corporation and Inhabitants of the Town of Stockport at the re-establishment of the School , and the high sense they entertained of the liberality and kindness of the Goldsmiths ' Company . " |
| 2 | I had forgotten my quest on the previous day in the pleasure of the poets ' company . |
| 3 | Although numerous entries in the Stationers ' Company register attest to the variety of Herringman 's early trade list , he concentrated on the publication of belles-lettres from the 1660s . |
| 4 | A Royal Commission was established to inquire into Charities , and its chapter on the Goldsmiths ' Company was published in 1822 . |
| 5 | In 1650 he returned to London with ‘ a great estate ’ , and in July of that year took his freedom of the Drapers ' Company and the Levant Company . |
| 6 | The whole thing did n't take very long ; just over a year after his freedom of the Weavers ' Company had been approved , William Charles Titford , Linen Draper , ‘ Son of Charles Titford of Frome , Somersetshire , Cheesemonger , ’ became free of the City , ‘ … paying unto Mr Chamberlain for this City 's use the Sum of forty six shillings and eight pence ’ . |
| 7 | Supported by a small inheritance from his father , who died in 1538 , Smith gained his freedom of the Haberdashers ' Company and subsequently of the Skinners ' , the company of Sir Andrew Judde [ q.v. ] , a wealthy City merchant and Kent landowner , whose daughter , Alice , he married about 1555 . |
| 8 | [ Bookseller , 1 July 1868 ; City Press , 18 July 1868 ; archives of the Clothworkers ' Company ; parish registers of Kirkby Ravensworth , St Bartholomew the Less , and St George Bloomsbury . ] |
| 9 | He was a Warden of the Goldsmiths ' Company in 1467 and 1471 , becoming Prime Warden in 1476 . |
| 10 | The visit originated at the request of Sir George Courthope , Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths ' Company , who expressed to the Headmaster his wish that the boys should have the opportunity to see this fine example of the work of the Company . |
| 11 | On Founder 's Day in 1972 the Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths ' Company , the Viscount Amory , and the Clerk to the Company , Mr. W.A. Prideaux , journeyed from London to open the new Hall , and afterwards inspected the new buildings and met masters and boys . |
| 12 | He started work at the Stationers ' Company School , London , in 1874 , and by the time he took up a post at Grantham Grammar School in 1884 he had already taught in Saffron Walden , Winchester , Newbury , and Cambridge . |
| 13 | He emerged as a wine merchant in Pall Mall ; respectability and civic office came by way of his membership of the Vintners ' Company , of which he was master in 1768 . |
| 14 | Membership of the Mercers ' Company followed in 1687 . |
| 15 | In 1828 he began five years as an apprentice apothecary with the Apothecaries ' Company of London . |
| 16 | Farr-Jones said the whole notion of a players ' company was for all the players to be involved , not to feather the nests of a select upper echelon . |
| 17 | On completion of his articles , 3 April 1706 , Barclay was admitted a freeman of the Drapers ' Company , and in 1720 a liveryman . |
| 18 | Palmer was a freeman of the Drapers ' Company by patrimony and served as a member of the court ( 1792–5 ) . |
| 19 | He received decorations from many allied states , including the Legion of Honour ( 1918 ) , and was a freeman of the Goldsmiths ' Company . |
| 20 | He was apprenticed to a bookseller , Humphrey Robinson , on 4 February 1635 , and became a freeman of the Stationers ' Company on 1 March 1643 and a liveryman in 1657 . |
| 21 | William became a freeman of the Stationers ' Company on 6 December 1591 . |
| 22 | He was apprenticed on 13 November 1673 to John Dunnell ( or Dunning ) , a freeman of the Turners ' Company . |
| 23 | Marshall became a freeman of the Turners ' Company on 2 December 1685 . |
| 24 | He later became a freeman of the Salters ' Company , like his father , but it is probable that his chief occupation was as a teacher of mathematics and accounting . |
| 25 | He was educated at Bridgnorth School , and then apprenticed to a London clothworker , becoming a freeman in the Clothworkers ' Company of London in 1541 or 1542 ( and its master in 1559 ) . |
| 26 | With the College of Arms hindering the grant of a new charter to the Upholders ' Company in 1722 , some London undertakers attempted to form their own livery company . |
| 27 | Mr. Walter Prideaux , the Clerk to the Goldsmiths ' Company , wrote to the Governors on 22nd November , leaving little doubt about the attitude of the Company : |
| 28 | Once in London , he worked with James Asperne , of the European Magazine , Thomas Hurst , of Longman 's , and perhaps Thomas Tegg [ q.v. ] , who witnessed Wilson 's admission to the Clothworkers ' Company 7 February 1810 . |
| 29 | In 1840 he won a competition for the Dyers ' Company almshouses in Islington . |
| 30 | In 1473 the king ordered him to look into a dispute between two members of the goldsmiths ' company . |