Example sentences of "was [adv] mr " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite his matter-of-fact analysis , the Scottish success story was arguably Mr Major 's greatest personal triumph of the entire election . |
| 2 | But it was only Mr Yeltsin 's behind-the-scenes authority which won the day for the reformers , and the respite is likely to be brief . |
| 3 | He was only Mr Laker 's friend . |
| 4 | Her brother Hindley , although invited , did not come , and Isabella was not invited , so it was only Mr Edgar and the servants who attended the ceremony . |
| 5 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 6 | But it was not Mr Kinnock whose speech brought about the miraculous change of heart on unilateralism . |
| 7 | They rushed out again when they learnt that the patient was not Mr Hess , but his wife . |
| 8 | In the end it was not Mr Kinnock who lost the game for Labour . |
| 9 | Gerry was probably Mr Head 's most effective signing for Palace over our four years in the top flight 1969–73 . |
| 10 | There was also Mr Maddern , seated comfortably in the lounge-car as though in the drawing-room of his home-and after 45 trips across the Nullarbor to sell shoes in Kalgoorlie , I suppose that is how it felt . |
| 11 | ‘ And suppose he was n't Mr Unwin , although he said he was ? ’ |
| 12 | And it was n't Mr Major . |
| 13 | No it was n't Mr Johnston 's wife , he did n't have one . |
| 14 | that sending off the referee obviously was n't Mr Assan Maca . |
| 15 | I 'm sure you 'll be surprised to discover that the man you tried to shoot that night at Meltham House was n't Mr Churchill . ’ |
| 16 | Yes erm a The er headmaster at d lim at er at er Bellvale schools was then Mr . |
| 17 | A number than went for him and it was then Mr Johnson brandished a kitchen knife . |
| 18 | That was how Mr Hellyer found them . |
| 19 | While I was there Mr was the other side of the counter . |
| 20 | That was where Mr Singleton came in . |
| 21 | And er so Mr was where Mr is now , then . |
| 22 | The coroner was again Mr John Lancelot Martin . |
| 23 | And through request to the county solicitor , it was again Mr quite rightly said , it was said we would , and we as a corporate body , i e the county council , and the C P D. And I would go along with the the er proposition . |
| 24 | The final straw , according to inside sources , was when Mr Zhivkov tried to bring his widely disliked son , Vladimir , who has a reputation as a drunkard and a womaniser , on to the politburo . |
| 25 | Mind you , he was never Mr Co-Operative . |
| 26 | Er and we called er his name it was a Mr , we always called him Gaffer , it was never Mr , it was the Gaffer was the headmaster . |
| 27 | To her mind , Travis McKenna was definitely Mr Wrong … and yet today had brought a shivering awareness of him as a man — and herself as a woman . |