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

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1 This is a historic town , I I disagree with Mr Jewitt upon the emphasis he gives to that , but I do agree with him that a limit the type , the scale of growth which that solution would imply would be hurtful , would be very , extremely harmful to the town .
2 Those on the list are : Mr Sisulu , sentenced with Mr Mandela to life imprisonment in the ‘ Rivonia Trial ’ of 1964 ; four other Rivonia triallists - Raymond Mhlaba , Elias Motsoaledi , Andrew Mlangeni , Ahmed Kathrada , Wilton Mkwayi and the oldest of them all , 80-year-old Oscar Mpheta , a trade union leader who has been behind bars since 1980 , and whose whose sentence runs out next year .
3 I immediately set about trying to fulfil Mr Farraday 's wishes , but as you know , finding recruits of a satisfactory standard is no easy task nowadays , and although I was pleased to hire Rosemary and Agnes on Mrs Clements 's recommendation , I had got no further by the time I came to have my first business meeting with Mr Farraday during the short preliminary visit he made to our shores in the spring of last year .
4 On the day Oreste and Gigia were due to sail with Mr Ogilvy from Liverpool Wilson had drawn a ship which excited Pilade more than anything else .
5 Competing with Mr Perv for Norris 's affections is true crime author Jack Lansford ( Tom Berenger ) whose interest has been aroused by the building 's grisly past .
6 He overlapped with Mr Lamont at the House of Rothschild , spending 1969 to 1973 at the merchant bank before advising Lord Weinstock at General Electric Company .
7 She agreed with Mr Shevardnadze on the importance of ‘ retaining the stability on the Nato and Warsaw Pact structures and of the Helsinki declaration ’ .
8 Maxwell added : ‘ Before we can talk in terms of shares we must ascertain whether the Inland Revenue aim to deal with Mr Flashman as an individual or if Barnet FC is also liable . ’
9 More recently , she worked as special adviser to Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson and his successor John Major , moving with Mr Major to Number 10 when he became prime minister .
10 Further suggesting to Mrs Sisulu that she might afford to hope , to imagine that her husband might be freed , was a meeting that she and other leaders of the Mass Democratic Movement had scheduled with Mr Mandela at 6pm .
11 IF I DO NOT PHONE HIM BEFORE FRIDAY , HE IS STAYING WITH MR JOHNSTON IN EDINBURGH
12 Company partner Frederick Strittmatter reportedly told one journalist : ‘ We will have no more to do with Mr Thatcher by the end of the year . ’
13 He had dealt with Mr Simpson on several occasions .
14 It is some five years since I worked with Mr Edell in his previous incarnation as a lawyer , but he struck me as a man who would do the necessary .
15 The said belle is one Miss Stephanie Lowe , a blonde beauty and person , who is said to be co-habiting with Mr Schofield in a ‘ luxury Thameside home ’ .
16 This had , and George Eliot knew it , little or even nothing to do with Christ 's injunctions to his followers , and certainly nothing at all to do with the Incarnation which was now being celebrated as the congregation sang " Unto us a Boy is Born " as Daniel at the white-draped altar , with its lovingly embroidered white cloth , watched with Mr Ellenby over the bread and wine .
17 Robin Mark Davies told the inquest that he had gone with Mr Venables to the Central Park Hotel in Bromborough and that his friend had started to ‘ freak out ’ .
18 He plans to write and will consult for Stanley Paul ; senior editor Marion Paull , who has worked with Mr Bloomfield for 20 years , will continue to manage the list , which Mr Bloomfield expects in these recessionary times to become ‘ more focused , particularly on its current strengths , the major sports — golf , cricket , rugby , football , horses , pets ’ .
19 Mr Walpit was fighting with Mr Welt over the failure of his cage and Mr Crangle skipped happily around his desk .
20 Talk of a policy U-turn or reversal , associated with Mr Heath from 1972 onwards , or of ‘ ungovernability ’ , so prevalent in the 1970s , has disappeared from the political vocabulary in Britain .
21 Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement .
22 His brother , who lives in the same house , spoke with Mr Mandela for five hours on 4 August .
23 Back inside , he spent a further two hours talking with Mr Patten before coming out , minus jacket , to see him off .
24 He 's arriving with Mr Kennedy on Sunday evening . ’
25 Joyce Strand , 50 , of Prince Regent Street , Leith , said she had lived with Mr Buckley for about five years before his death .
26 Ronnie Moran , who had been chatting with Mr Souness about the match hours before the Liverpool manager headed for the operating theatre , will have to report failure in his first game in charge .
27 ON THE eve of polling day the Prime Minister was asked whether , on reflection , it would not have been a good idea for him to have debated with Mr Kinnock on television .
28 Prince Charles first stayed with Mr MacKillop on a secret trip in 1987 when he helped to plant potatoes , cut peat and dip sheep .
29 She added , referring to the two meetings she held with Mr Lawson on the afternoon before he resigned : ‘ I tried to persuade the Chancellor not to go .
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