Example sentences of "mr [noun prp] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detective Sergeant Cedric Jones said Mr Banks hanged himself from a hifi speaker bracket on his bedroom wall . |
| 2 | The bid failed because the estate 's value was considered to be less than the ‘ knockdown price ’ of £10 million at which the Prince had persuaded Mr Kluge to offer it to the nation , with some assessments valuing the estate at between £2 and £7 million . |
| 3 | Mr Devlin portrays himself as a dynamic character , bursting with enthusiasm and energy and commitment to the constituency . |
| 4 | All your twenties were on her little list and when Mr Nassim put them in the bank yesterday he got a nasty shock . |
| 5 | Mr Elkington rammed it into the bottom of one of his ineffective ditches and , to his astonishment , water burst up like a geyser . |
| 6 | No doubt , repeated election victories under the leadership of Mr Hawke owe something to the disunity of Right-wing forces in Australia , but the fresh emphases in Labour thinking are also very significant . |
| 7 | Mr Brownlow said nothing for a few seconds , but simply stared at Rose . |
| 8 | For Mr Till presents us with an intellectual Mozart , linking him with Rousseau and Voltaire , Goethe and Schiller . |
| 9 | Two weeks later , to my horror , Mr Taylor stopped me in the corridor and asked me if I 'd consider doing another talk — to another class . |
| 10 | Everyone started talking at once , and Mr Appin found himself in a storm of angry questions . |
| 11 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
| 12 | ‘ Has n't Mr Trelawney told you about the pirates ? |
| 13 | Mr Fractor threatened him with a sum stretching right round the classroom if he did n't stay awake and had already punished him for not finishing his work on time . |
| 14 | Mr Tutton blamed it on a type of narrow laser beam used in early operations and said it had not been a problem for the British patients . |
| 15 | Mr Crowden told them of the terms of the will and suggested that Violet 's legacy seemed a poor reward and that it might be improved . |
| 16 | When Mr Heath sacked him from the Shadow Cabinet in 1968 after he had paraphrased Virgil 's Aeneid and with foreboding claimed to see ‘ the River Tiber foaming with much blood ’ he began a journey into the wilderness . |
| 17 | Officers had tried all day to contact Mr Maughan to tell him of the tragedy . |
| 18 | In his autobiography Reflections in a Silver Spoon Mr Mellon describes himself as an Incurable Collector . |
| 19 | The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week . |
| 20 | In this speech , Mr Patten confirmed himself as the leading exponent in the Cabinet of a traditional Toryism owing nothing to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 21 | Mr Duncan took me to the farm and I met Dan and Stella Parks . |
| 22 | In 1964 Mr Wilson presented himself as a radical figure , but by 1974 he was comparing himself to a family doctor , and hoped , in his own words , ‘ to achieve … peace and quiet for the country ’ . |
| 23 | And one recalls that people not well-disposed to Mr Byrne accused him of a measure of unhelpfulness . |
| 24 | I told Mr Kennedy to put them in the kennels last night . |
| 25 | As Benny had walked down the town , Mr Kennedy called her into the chemist . |
| 26 | " Mr Lee met her outside the church , " she said slowly . |
| 27 | Mr Carman went on : ‘ Is it right Mr Mellor visited you on a social basis in the daytime without his wife ? ’ |
| 28 | It is only human of Mr Teicher to make himself into the hero-victim of his own narrative . |
| 29 | So the Old Parsonage remained until the American Mr Stucley bought it from the church in the 1930s , thereafter leaving it to the National Trust . |
| 30 | Endill ran to the cart as Mr McDoodle brought it to the house . |