Example sentences of "king ['s] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baldwin did not get the King 's message until he arrived at the Travellers ' Club for lunch . |
| 2 | ‘ I have already heard , ’ said Julian , ‘ how in the council of last November you spoke for a parley with the Lord Owen , and told the king 's ministers that he would be willing to talk peace . |
| 3 | Addressed to the archbishop and all the prelates assembled at Lambeth , it commanded them , on their oaths of fealty , to do all that they could for the defence and conservation of the king 's rights and of his realm ; it then continued : |
| 4 | The Royal bedroom in each car occupied roughly one-third of the car 's length , and communicated with a spacious bathroom fitted with a full-sized bath ; adjacent to the bathrooms were small sleeping compartments for the King 's valet and the Queen 's maid respectively . |
| 5 | There was a local tradition that Gloucester and the Stanleys came to blows over the division of authority , and their continuing rivalry may lie behind a royal command in 1476 that the tenants of Congleton should attend ‘ only upon the king 's highness and in his absence upon the lord Stanley ’ . |
| 6 | There was a local tradition that Gloucester and the Stanleys came to blows over the division of authority , and their continuing rivalry may lie behind a royal command in 1476 that the tenants of Congleton should attend ‘ only upon the king 's highness and in his absence upon the lord Stanley ’ . |
| 7 | They described the King 's surprise and frustration , for usually the Pope made little difficulty over the annulment of royal marriages . |
| 8 | The secular cleric had the further advantage from the king 's standpoint that he was strictly a life-tenant , unable to transmit his abbacy to a legitimate heir . |
| 9 | The relatives of the 61 men who had vanished lobbied ministers and the King 's sister and brother . |
| 10 | Bruce 's forces were defeated first in Methven wood by the English , and then beside Loch Tay by Comyn 's uncle , the Lord of Lorn The king 's sister and the Countess of Buchan who had crowned him were dragged out of sanctuary where they had been sent for safety , and exhibited in cages hanging from castle walls at Roxburgh and Berwick . |
| 11 | The likes of the King 's Quest and Police Quest series , with stunning graphics and fabulous sound ( via MPC compatible sound cards , of course ) show what the PC is capable of in terms of leisure . |
| 12 | While the clergy successfully defended their claim to be taxed in convocation and not in parliament , this really made little difference to the king 's income or , indeed , to the vulnerability of the clergy before his demands . |
| 13 | The law of treason is directed against aiding the King 's enemies and against sedition from within . |
| 14 | In Alcuin 's opinion , part of Eanbald 's trouble arose because he received the king 's enemies and protected their possessions and because he was involved in seizing the lands of others . |
| 15 | BUT all the activities centred on Mosely and King 's Heath and we all know that our Birmingham Central Branch covers B5 , B10–14 and B25 ! |
| 16 | He also left £1,000 to the King 's Heath and Moseley Institute . |
| 17 | In this class of cases redress was given in the Middle Ages sometimes by the King 's Council and sometimes by the Chancellor . |
| 18 | It was enacted that offenders were to be brought before a member of the King 's Council or a Justice of the Peace for examination ; hunting in disguise or by night , and wilful concealment of such offences were to be punished as felonies — that is , by death and forfeiture of property . |
| 19 | Other data cover King 's Hall and Trinity College , Cambridge , Norwich , Croyland Abbey , Dover and the records of the building of London Bridge . |
| 20 | The event is being held at the King 's Hall and includes wines from Italy , Spain , Germany , France and the United States . |
| 21 | With the King 's acquiescence and in total contravention of the monarchy 's constitution , Primo de Rivera proceeded to establish a dictatorship . |
| 22 | Maurice Fermoy became the Conservative Member of Parliament for King 's Lynn while his Scottish wife , who gave up a promising career as a concert pianist to marry , founded the King 's Lynn Festival for Arts and Music which , since its inception in 1951 , has attracted world renowned musicians such as Sir John Barbirolli and Yehudi Menuhin . |
| 23 | In the South East the unlikely towns of King 's Lynn and Eastbourne were evidently strongholds of the strike while Aldershot , Maidstone , Dorking , Lowestoft and Yarmouth displayed only lukewarm interest . |
| 24 | Had it been accepted , the District would have been confined to only three centres in Norfolk — Norwich , Great Yarmouth and King 's Lynn and would have withdrawn from at least ten other centres at which WEA branches had existed , some from the early twenties . |
| 25 | He was able to satisfy Royalist investigators that an out-payment which he had made in connection with the king 's trial and execution had simply been a routine matter , in no way implicating him in the actual regicide . |
| 26 | On 23 December 1648 he joined the committee for proceedings against the king , the first of the Commons committees which laid the groundwork for the king 's trial and execution . |
| 27 | Their eldest son , Gregory , died in 1652 , shortly before his father ; the younger , Henry , was disinherited because of his opposition to the king 's trial and execution . |
| 28 | When that failed he refused to approve the king 's trial and execution . |
| 29 | no longer confined to persons who speak the King 's English or who come under the direct influence of the great writers ; the continuity of our literary and linguistic heritage is threatened by the far-reaching influence of the half educated … |
| 30 | proprietor of the King 's Arms and Royal Hotel , Lancaster . |