Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [conj] mr [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japanese officials noticed that politics , not trade , was mostly discussed when Mr Delors visited Washington in April . |
| 2 | OWING to an error in a report supplied by a news agency in last night 's Echo , it was wrongly stated that Mr Bryan Williams , of Wye Street , Walton , Liverpool , had been found guilty of conspiracy to rob and sentenced to four years in jail . |
| 3 | It was later revealed that Mr Argles had employed a boy who had been convicted of offences against young children . |
| 4 | It was later found that Mr McCubbin died , not from the shots , but from a tiny piece of wire carried by the pellets , which fatally punctured his lung . |
| 5 | It was also noted that Mr Mowatt has accumulated arrears of leave , so that his availability during the period of notice will be reduced . |
| 6 | It was also claimed that Mr Deans had been responsible for the non-payment of police bills which had led to a threat of police cover being withdrawn for home matches . |
| 7 | Mr Gorbachev was immediately supported and Mr Melnikov wound up apologising . |
| 8 | The clinching argument that Mr Dixon made about informing his father of his literary success was that probably Hank would need help in investing discreetly the earnings of the book , and it was well known that Mr Stych was an astute businessman . |
| 9 | But in spite of its long history of resistance to the throne , the Commons still bans direct criticism of the monarch , and it was evidently decided that Mr Wilson 's motion implied criticism of the Queen for dubbing Sir Johannes . |