Example sentences of "to see sir [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a salutary lesson on the stability of this precept to see Sir Peter following the precedent set by his predecessors in Sir David McNee and Sir Kenneth Newman , both of whom , as I have indicated above , rejected the internal desire to philosophize or be discursive . |
| 2 | He fastened his seat belt without speaking and the Rover slid gently into Broadway , the road he had crossed less than a fortnight earlier on his way to see Sir Paul Berowne . |
| 3 | Maginnis would like to see Sir Patrick Mayhew fulfil his promise to give the talks ‘ direction and focus ’ by presenting his own ideas for the future . |
| 4 | I could have gone to my own office in Whitehall , but I was due to see Sir Edmund Pusey in the evening , and I did n't want to risk running into him before I 'd managed to clear my own mind a bit . |
| 5 | ‘ Your Grace , I and two others were some way behind , bringing up the spare horses , and came on the scene only in time to see Sir Edmund at grips , and the battle all but done . |
| 6 | He sent his private secretary down the corridor to see Sir Norman Brook to ask if they could be provided . |
| 7 | He told a surprised Buckingham , who greeted them in the hallway , that he wanted to see Sir Richard and Lady Isabella and other members of the household in the hall immediately . |
| 8 | ‘ Then why did n't you go to see Sir Charles ? ’ |
| 9 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 10 | I would like to see Sir John in love . ’ |
| 11 | As chairman of the Co-operative parliamentary group , I was delighted to see Sir Dennis Landau 's comments on behalf of the CWS . |
| 12 | I would sometimes ride on the back to go to chapel , or shopping , and the furthest I ever went was when Uncle Tommy took me to Middleton in Teesdale to see Sir Robert Fossett 's Circus . |
| 13 | Star spotters on the other hand were only to happy to see Sir DAvid who 's filming a new TV series aptly enough on plants . |
| 14 | It was thus all the more interesting to see Sir Keith outlining the importance of citizenship as an aim of any agreed curriculum in the relative tranquillity of the 1980s . |