Example sentences of "mr [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many in the US were keenly awaiting the outcome : Mr Baker had made several statements expressing Washington 's desire for Israel to reach an agreement with the Palestinians on elections . |
| 2 | Guinness conceded for the purposes of the application that Mr Ward had performed valuable services . |
| 3 | This policy has brought it £24m of borrowings , most at variable rates , and Mr Linacre said replacing these borrowings with convertible preference shares , yielding 7 per cent , would save the group about £1.8m a year . |
| 4 | Mr Hnatiuk had taken one look at the approaching Mrs Frizzell and had dived for cover into a knot of other businessmen . |
| 5 | The general thinking was that Mr Flood had seen some kind of vision , but was not ready yet to reveal it to the town . |
| 6 | Later that afternoon Mr Brownlow wanted to return some books to a bookseller , and to send some money for new books that he had already collected . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , in the wake of last week 's one-point hike in interest rates , Friday 's Daily Mail commented that Mr Lawson had had little choice but to follow the West German increase . |
| 8 | No such retreat exists with the economy ( though Mr Lawson did abandon pure monetarism ) . |
| 9 | The suspicion is that Mr Yanagitani hoped to use these forgeries as collateral for loans . |
| 10 | That was even more urgent now that Mr Lang had admitted that council reform cost estimates by the consultant , Touche Ross , were wrong . |
| 11 | Mr Jacobson refused to answer any questions following the hearing , except to say he has n't seen his brother-in-law . |
| 12 | If Mr Murdoch had copied new conglomerates , like Britain 's Hanson — which sells its successful turnarounds if a high bid comes along — he would be safe . |
| 13 | Mr Chin had foreseen this difficulty and made sure that no child had majority control of any of the family companies . |
| 14 | Had Janet noticed how quiet Mr Ashenden had seemed all day ? |
| 15 | The £113 million attempt to take the company private collapsed in December , when Mr Sugar failed to gain enough votes from independent shareholders . |
| 16 | Mr Browne said recovering more oil from proven fields could be one of the most efficient ways of keeping the North Sea in business . |
| 17 | Mr Michael Beloff , QC , representing Sir Ian , stressed that there was no suggestion Mr Samuels had sought personal gain . |
| 18 | But Sir Ian later learned that Mr Samuels had put another £15,000 of chambers ' funds into the building society account in 1985 . |
| 19 | However it ca n't just be bolted on to the tractor , and Mr Tomlinson had to spend further hours in the workshop matching it to the tractor 's backend and getting the gearing right . |
| 20 | So Mr Fenwick agreed to donate two plastic heart valves worth £4,000 which Dave Pick will deliver personally to the Brasov area of Transylvania in Romania where the sick woman lives . |
| 21 | However , Jim Turle , the director of communications at Lang brothers , said that while Mr Lamont had gone some way to redressing the balance , he had by no means levelled the playing field . |
| 22 | During the election Mr Major promised regular annual cuts in tax but yesterday Mr Lamont refused to repeat that pledge . |
| 23 | Once Mr Hooper started managing this group , it got a name for itself — ‘ Black and Blue ’ . |
| 24 | Mr Young started knitting 10 years ago . |
| 25 | Mr Hattersley said giving disproportionate power to small , minority centre parties would not improve democracy . |
| 26 | Mr Hyslop had had little idea how badly he was injured until he was heading back to the station in the van . |
| 27 | Mr Mallory had advocated switching Benediction back to Thursday night . |
| 28 | With his new chain — 4 Play Records Mr Ames decided to try different things . |
| 29 | Mr Cooney said Mr Bates had used incorrect figures . |
| 30 | Then Mr Lewis began to report certain remarks his lordship and others had made at dinner on that first evening after his arrival . |