Example sentences of "[verb] the royal family " in BNC.

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1 In times when there are ever-louder grumblings about the money that is spent maintaining the Royal Family , it is imperative that the public has its belief confirmed that they are special , and in some way different from the rest of us .
2 The majority ( eight out of 14 ) were republican , only one respected the Royal Family , the rest said the Windsors should get their act together .
3 But she had qualms about encountering the royal family , wondering if they would see her , not as Anne Mowbray , but as a stranger .
4 Thousands flocked to see the Royal Family at the traditional Braemar games as rumours spread about an October wedding .
5 Strangely , that modesty did not extend to sparing the Royal Family 's blushes over the serialization of Andrew Morton 's book about Princess Di and her marriage .
6 It was her first solo foreign trip representing the royal family and she returned home to praise from the public for her dignified manner at the highly charged and at times mawkish funeral service .
7 We begin by drawing up a huge ‘ A ’ list of all the stars that everybody recognizes , and that would always include the Royal family and such people as Paul Newman , Robert Redford , Jackie Onassis , and so on .
8 And Prince Edward underlined the Royal Family 's concern with a visit last March to a rainforest research project established jointly with the Royal Geographical Society in Brunei .
9 Mrs Kluge , 40 , has pursued the royal family relentlessly , to the point of buying a 75,000-acre estate next to Balmoral Castle .
10 He believed she was to blame for the tide of scandal enveloping the Royal Family .
11 Louis was reconstituting the royal family , keeping his adult sons on tenterhooks .
12 It was also reported that a new chapter in Andrew Morton 's controversial biography of the Princess would include details of a letter from the Duke warning her of the damage she was causing the Royal Family .
13 ‘ The Church must stand alongside every family like that — not actually put the Royal Family on a pedestal and expect impossible things of them . ’
14 Mrs Robinson , who became Ireland 's first woman president in 1990 , has frequently said she would like to visit the Royal Family and receive visits from them in return .
15 ‘ There was a formal denial that she had taken part in anything which would discredit the Royal Family .
16 Even Dean Swift wrote with enthusiasm of this speciality of Richard Hand , who had the honour to serve the Royal Family .
17 She realized that it stemmed , not from a noble desire to serve the royal family in general , but from a somewhat ignoble desire to see Edward in particular .
18 Those who hold the royal family dear could hardly wait for her downfall .
19 Ardent royalist Dorothy Myers , a nurse of Rochdale , Lancs , said : ‘ That woman has made the Royal Family into a laughing stock . ’
20 But the repercussions shook the Royal Family to the core yesterday .
21 Dramatic developments since then — most notably Black Wednesday and the scandals engulfing the Royal Family — have only served to heighten this sense of dislocation .
22 IBELIEVE the Royal Family are destroying themselves .
23 The Imperial Household Agency , a secretive ministry that minds the royal family , has objected to a telephone card showing a picture of the couple .
24 That was a crucial part of turning the Royal Family into no more than a diversion for the public .
25 In a terse , hand-delivered note to Diana , the Duke of Edinburgh accused her of betraying the Royal Family .
26 ‘ By the hour I was getting reports coming through to me that the princess wanted to leave the Royal Family .
27 A DESPERATELY unhappy Princess Diana had her bags packed ready to leave the Royal Family at least six years ago .
28 Morton said the Princess 's astrologer , Penny Thornton of TODAY , revealed to him recently that she believed Diana was about to leave the Royal Family then .
29 Yes I think er people should hear that er er er the royal family 's had a lot of correction in the past with the outside world and er come and go and you know , people know the royal family very well and they attract a lot of business , a lot of things go on behind the scenes whether it 's from glamour point of view .
30 For Joan this would be no ordinary meeting with him to whom ostensibly she was affianced , an enterprise attempted solely to reassure the royal family as to the princes ’ welfare .
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