Example sentences of "mrs [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Taylor from the Welcome Café , whose husband had summoned the police at the discovery of Oliver 's body , said that between 4.15 and 4.30 on 22 June a man resembling the description given by others had staggered into her café . |
| 2 | ‘ This is the little girl I wrote to you about , ’ said Mrs Reed to the stony stranger . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps she 's crying because she could n't go out with Mrs Reed in the carriage this morning , ’ suggested Bessie . |
| 4 | However hard I had tried to please Mrs Reed in the past , she always thought the worst of me . |
| 5 | First of all you need to know that the legislation says that , you need to know the current practice is that , and I can tell you a couple of funny stories about what happened to Mrs Ingalls down the street . ’ |
| 6 | Letter of thanks from Mrs Cunning of the music department of Currie High School expressing her thanks for the cheque for £10 sent to be used for the purchase of music . |
| 7 | You could talk to Mrs Westaway on the subject . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Anything that I can tell you , Inspector , I will , but my acquaintanceship with Mrs Iverson in the event was brief . ’ |
| 9 | This elite , otherwise referred to by Mrs Whitehouse as the ‘ humanist lobby ’ , is left in no doubt by her that it is the influence of their humanism to which she most vociferously objects : |
| 10 | ‘ What ? ’ said Mrs Monro from the back seat . |
| 11 | One saw the driver talking to and touching Mrs Wilks at the emergency telephone box , the silver car parked near by . |
| 12 | He then noticed Mrs Wilks at the telephone box and , in his rear-view mirror , he saw that the grey saloon car had pulled on to the hard shoulder and was heading towards her . |
| 13 | From the window of Kate 's room they watched Mrs Blakey on the distant seashore throwing driftwood for the setters . |
| 14 | She kept thinking of that , of their telling Mrs Blakey in the kitchen and Mrs Blakey throwing her head back and laughing . |
| 15 | The degree of heavyweight support for Mrs Beckett will undoubtedly lead to renewed accusations among some Labour MPs of a ‘ stitch up ’ to secure Mr Smith and Mrs Beckett for the leadership . |
| 16 | The masked four-man gang burst into her house , knocked Mrs Beckett to the ground and threatened her , her husband Leo and a woman dinner guest . |
| 17 | They sat down with a glass each before making the final assault on the stacking of the dishwasher ready for Mrs Thrigg in the morning . |
| 18 | He followed Mrs Wright through the gate , up a path full of grass to the front door . |
| 19 | He 'd most likely end up eating the grain he 'd nicked from Mrs Wright for the pheasants . |
| 20 | Trading Standards in Yeovil have just submitted a report on Mrs Burt to the Office of Fair Trading and their counterparts in Swindon are warning potential customers to be wary . |
| 21 | At the far end of the room Adèle was delightedly telling Mrs Fairfax about the presents she had received . |
| 22 | I was very happy teaching pretty little Adèle in the daytime , and talking to kind old Mrs Fairfax in the evening , but I felt that something was missing from my life . |
| 23 | I was now even more impatient to see Mr Rochester , but when I was having tea with Mrs Fairfax in the afternoon , the first thing she said was , ‘ It 's fine weather for the master 's journey . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to hear nothing from Mr or Mrs Fanshawe during the past six weeks ? ’ |
| 25 | His claims are certain to escalate into a big political scandal , following as they do new evidence linking Mrs Mandela to the murder of a prominent Soweto doctor . |
| 26 | He began by talking to Mr and Mrs Singh about the school . |
| 27 | Workhouse visiting committees composed of middle class ladies tried to place unmarried mothers as domestic servants and increasingly strove to keep mother and child together , but , as Mrs Hardie of the Manchester Ladies ' Health Society commented , their task was difficult : a mistress usually feared the presence of a young woman of immoral character in her family . |
| 28 | ‘ No , it was a bomb , ’ said Mrs Darne in the tone of an expert . |
| 29 | She was celebrated in the media , was featured in a 1940s radio programme and built up an impressive list of clients Sacheverell Sitwell , the Marchioness of Bristol and the Countess of Rosebery plus a clutch of other aristocrats placed regular orders , and a certain Mrs Demarest of the Manor House , Harrold , Bedfordshire used to send twelve small cheeses in lieu of Christmas cards to a selection of her titled friends . |
| 30 | During the interval they bumped into Mrs Ackerley in the foyer . |