Example sentences of "[be] [prep] mr [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The legal dispute over the relics has been between Mr John Claridge , who excavated them in 1931 , and his niece , Mrs Georgina Smith , the daughter of his brother , Geoffrey , who died in 1986 .
2 No-one would have ever known about my moment of unfaithfulness if it had n't been for Mr Peter Lowe .
3 Mr Gates would be happy to get his financial information from the quarterly report to shareholders — so long as he can be confident that the news will be as consistently good as it has been during Mr Shirley 's seven years in charge .
4 Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing .
5 This week parliament gave his policy its strong support , and most Australians are with Mr Hawke too .
6 ‘ My human sympathies ’ , said Lord Diplock , ‘ are with Mr Cheall , but I am not in a position to indulge them ; for I am left in no doubt that upon all the points that have been so ingeniously argued , the law is against him . ’
7 but how much wiser you are with Mr greed !
8 I only wish I could have been with Mr Grant when he researched the feature .
9 Yet principles for action are within Mr Clinton 's grasp ; Mr Christopher 's February list is as valid as ever .
10 DURHAM DALES Mr Tony Blair , who would almost certainly have been in Mr Kinnock 's cabinet , won Sedgefield with 1.71pc swing that gave him a increased majority of 14,859 .
11 The first items that I wish to acknowledge are from Mr Norman Wheeler of Stokesay .
12 I suspect that other considerations are in Mr MacGregor 's mind : appraisal would require the equivalent of an extra 1,828 full-time teachers , according to the steering group , and a total cost of £36-£40m — or 0.5 per cent of the annual teachers ' salary bill .
13 Do you know how many calories are in Mr Singh 's curry or Mr Wong 's sweet-and-sour ?
14 If he was still alive , he would be about Mr Hobbs 's age .
15 Dickie said , ‘ When I heard them say it was St Benedict 's Hospital I thought it must be for Mr Leland , so I called him .
16 However , a shocked Danish bureaucrat blew the whistle on Mr Hocke as that ‘ refugee education fund ’ was only supposed to be for Mr Hartling and not any old non-Danish High Commissioner .
17 ‘ I 'm with Mr Creed , ’ Jed said .
18 There will be more Schundlers and Riordans in the future , and they will all be in Mr Perot 's debt .
19 ‘ It 'll have to be to Mr Rosen , Frank .
20 His resignation should be on Mr Major 's desk today .
21 Ismail Ayob , Mr Mandela 's lawyer , had phoned Mrs Sisulu , Cyril Ramaphosa , Murphy Morobe and Cassim Salojee — all MDM leaders — on Monday night to instruct them to be at Mr Mandela 's prison house , also in the Cape Town area , at five on Tuesday afternoon .
22 I had been to Mr Grover for a complete check-up .
23 All eyes are on Mr Brown , watching for his reaction .
24 It will be tough , but the odds are on Mr Murdoch coming through .
25 William McKelvey , the MP for Kilmarnock and Loudon , said that most Scottish Labour MPs were behind Mr Clarke .
26 ‘ But surely he must have been almost as concerned as you were with Mr Riddle 's activities , particularly about the fields at the camping site . ’
27 They were with Mr Mandela until 10pm , much of the time he and Mrs Sisulu simply recalling their old days together and recounting what they had done all these years .
28 Being in Mr Wood 's class this time ,
29 It appeared that 12 cousins were at Mr Farrington 's funeral .
30 He concedes that the new sector organisations called into being by Mr Heseltine last July are not yet up to speed .
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