Example sentences of "late [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 It was a mark of the esteem in which John Burridge was held at Selhurst Park , both as a goalkeeper and as a showman , that whenever he has subsequently returned here with his later clubs he has invariably been accorded a warm welcome , both from Palace fans and from his former playing colleagues .
2 It was noticeable that there was a willingness on the part of quite a number of voters to express as many preferences as there were candidates and the comment was sometimes made that while it was not too difficult to decide which candidates should be given first and early preferences and which candidates should be given last and later preferences it was less easy to decide the order of preference in which the middle range of candidates should be placed .
3 In later times it was briefly occupied by Cromwell and by Bonnie Prince Charlie during the Rebellion of 1745 .
4 Amber has always been used predominantly for jewellery , but in later times it also served to meet a variety of personal needs such as smoking gear , rosaries and worry beads .
5 In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik .
6 I think that would defeat the object in small places because you can hear these diesel cars coming a hundred miles away , in the later hours you can
7 The popular courts survived far longer , and the royal court remained stronger than elsewhere in northern Europe ; and in the twelfth century the royal court began to grow in importance , until in later centuries it swallowed the jurisdiction of most other courts .
8 It was so radical that in later centuries it did lead to the abolition of slavery in the Western world .
9 It transpired that Hannah was well capable of coping with this sudden celebrity status , displaying a curiously ingenuous confidence as in later months she met people ranging from royalty to hard-nosed journalists , and completely disarmed them all .
10 ‘ The whole journal appears to have been written in South Africa but he moved to Cape Province , and from later entries it seems he was in contact with Cecil Rhodes … ’
11 Erm the world is indeed inter-related erm we are talking in strategic terms of a multilateral er er erm system just as we , as , when we come to the later lectures we will see , as is the case with economic relations .
12 In the later decades it was raised more often .
13 On later models it is the tag which holds the rad cap chain and is thus marked 4M54 , which means April 1954 .
14 But that was the first case of that absolute determination which he was to use to great effect in the later films I did with him . ’
15 And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know .
16 In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately .
17 And er in later days it was called the School .
18 His pictures vary in style : in his later days he showed himself capable of the common sort of conventionally flattering portrait , but , particularly from his earlier years in London , there exists a body of work demonstrating his great talent for lively detail and natural rather than conventional compositions .
19 In their later writings they had been forced to acknowledge , in the light of much critical evidence , that their biologically determined criminal was only one of a variety of types : their theory had become eclectic and multi-factorial .
20 From his later writings it is obvious that he was quite fascinated by the entire operation and its execution .
21 In later years we borrowed Blossom , a big Clydesdale-type mare , from John Sayer at West New Houses , and eventually we bought her .
22 The war was so far away and I suppose it was only in later years we learned how serious the threat was .
23 In later years they were edited by Africans , though European officials in the public Relations Department always had the final say .
24 In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 .
25 But in later years they got a gig and it was far easier on the pony you see with a big heavy man riding a pony is awful tiresome on the pony you see .
26 In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way .
27 During her later years she was never visible till mid-day , by which time she would , in an upstairs drawing-room , be found occupying a cushionless chair at a large central table ; with a glass of port at her right hand and a volume of sermons at her left .
28 A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London .
29 In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio .
30 In later years she suffered badly from varicose veins on her legs , which contributed to her death at the age of 82 .
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