Example sentences of "mr [noun prp] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Churchill had nine inch long cigars sent him at Christmas and |
2 | Fewer lives might have been lost if Mr Milosevic and Mr Tudjman had last year been allowed to split Bosnia between them . |
3 | In particular Mr Taylor had bloodcurdling tales to relate about the spectres of Roman soldiers killed in violent battles or driven to suicide in the bleak grey Cotswold winters . |
4 | Mr Nearn had other ideas , making Mr Chapman the proverbial offer he could not refuse . |
5 | But Mr Bérégovoy had other reasons to feel depressed . |
6 | In the Republican primaries , Mr Bush had predictable landslides over Patrick Buchanan , who did not campaign and mustered only 15 to 25 per cent of the vote . |
7 | Indeed , Mr Voss had last year written to The Daily Telegraph extolling the place — ‘ for patrons who wish to relax in comfort and splendour and enjoy the delights of haute cuisine ’ — and complaining that it was n't fair that Paddy Burt had written about a nearby Dorset establishment ( albeit unfavourably ) . |
8 | But in the second round , when Ms Wilson was eliminated , Mr Davies had 35 trade union votes against Mr Field 's 16 . |
9 | While Mao controlled barely 1m people in Yan'an , Mr Deng had five times that number in Taihang , a far more economically successful region . |
10 | Mr Brown had Labour conference delegates roaring him on as he said : ‘ He is a Prime Minister who watches football on Saturday , watches cricket on Sunday , watches the pound on Wednesday . |
11 | Mr Bishop had one lot in his pocket when he got drowned . |
12 | His brother Gary said Mr Dearlove had two children an 11-year-old boy and seven-year-old girl and described him as ‘ a loving and devoted father ’ . |
13 | The unusually benevolent Mr Smith had strong words to say about them : |
14 | Mr Wesley had kindly words to say about the people of the little town and neighbourhood and there is no harm in reminding ourselves of what he thought about or predecessors : ‘ They have in general the finest natural tempers I ever knew ; they have the softness and courtesy of the Irish , with the seriousness of the Scotch and the openness of the English . ’ |
15 | Perhaps this was only because he had never had reason to he until he met Mr Evans , but he was n't afraid of him , even after that first , dreadful night , because Mr Evans had false teeth that clicked when he talked . |