Example sentences of "of sir [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raiders broke into the grounds of Stanton Harcourt Manor on Thursday night , the home of Sir Crispin Gascoigne . |
| 2 | Still unsure whether or not it was appropriate , he said that he would like to name Virgin 's first plane Spirit of Sir Freddie . |
| 3 | They also played down the role of Sir Alan Walters , the Prime Minister 's personal economic adviser , in the critical decisions to intervene heavily in the past two weeks and raise interest rates to protect the pound last Thursday . |
| 4 | To study the recommendations of the Finlay Committee on how to bring about internationalization , another official committee was created under the chairmanship of Sir Alan Barlow of the Air Ministry . |
| 5 | In Britain , few people were aware of Sir Alan Walter 's significance in shaping the government 's economic policy until he fell out with the Chancellor , Nigel Lawson , who subsequently resigned . |
| 6 | He and his wife ( a niece of Sir Alan Sykes. ) retired to the Cotswolds for a well-deserved rest from public service , though they remained as trustees of the Sir Alan Sykes Trust , a charitable fund established in 1954 and the main beneficiary of " which has been the School . |
| 7 | More than 80 alumni , scientists and engineers , attended a special symposium organised by the School of Metallurgy and Materials to mark the 70th Birthday of Sir Alan Cottrell . |
| 8 | To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Arthus Sullivan , Royal Mail are issuing , on July 21st , a set of five stamps featuring characters from some of the best-loved Gilbert and Sullivan operettas . |
| 9 | The proceedings of Sir Paul Scoon after the American invasion were just as revolutionary — meaning validated by force not law — as had been the proceedings of the superseded military regime . |
| 10 | Ragusa became an important entrepôt , which , in the words of Sir Paul Rycant , a shrewd English observer , writing in 1668 , was ‘ the port for transmitting the manufactures of Venice , and all Italy , into Turkey ’ , and in return received the necessities of life for distribution to the rest of Europe , often in its own ships . |
| 11 | These were sufficiently warm and outspoken , even flattering , for apparently she had heard much of Sir Alexander Ramsay and , by the sound of her , to his credit . |
| 12 | If the English would execute the son of Sir Alexander Seton , a noted Scots knight , would they hesitate over ordinary townsfolk ? |
| 13 | I can , however , give the strongest recommendation to the Chandos Collect reissue of Sir Alexander Gibson 's 1981 performances with the Scottish National Orchestra of Stravinsky 's Symphony in C and Symphony in Three Movements , fully worthy of comparison with the composer 's own performances on Sony Classical . |
| 14 | Excisions , notes and actual published first edition refer to Sir Alexander 's reputation for racking up his tenants ' rents unfairly and harshly ; and to noticeable meanness — ‘ he has disgusted all mankind by injudicious parsimony ’ ; Boswell originally told of Sir Alexander asking a visitor whether the punch-bowl on the table in front of them were not indeed very handsome . |
| 15 | On Monday , 6 September 1773 , Boswell and Johnson left the home of Sir Alexander Macdonald and set off on horseback to a staging-post near their embarkation point for Raasay . |
| 16 | Fear may have contributed — fear of Sir Alexander 's wrath . |
| 17 | On a June night in 1746 , she disguised the haughty Prince as her Irish maid , ‘ Betty Bourke ’ , and went with him/her in an open boat from Benbecula to the seat on Skye of Sir Alexander Macdonald . |
| 18 | At breakfast Johnson reminisced about early days in London , and suddenly , with a surprising ungallantry , disparaged a previous hostess , Lady Macdonald , wife of Sir Alexander from Armadale . |
| 19 | , George Hay ( 1821–1875 ) , Episcopalian priest , scholar , and printer , was born 4 August 1821 in Edinburgh , the ninth child in a family of four sons and six daughters of John Hay Forbes ( later Lord Medwyn , q.v. ) , judge of the Court of Session , and his wife Louisa , daughter of Sir Alexander Cumming Gordon of Altyre . |
| 20 | , Hugh Andrew Johnstone ( c. 1797–1864 ) , art collector , was the only son ( there was also a daughter ) of Sir Alexander Munro , at one time consul-general in Madrid , and his wife Margaret Penelope Johnstone . |
| 21 | Scotland 's two government-backed countryside bodies , the Nature Conservancy Council and the Countryside Commission are being amalgamated under the chairmanship of Sir Magnus Magnusson . |
| 22 | You are to pray for Burghgesh 's soul and for those of Sir Gerard and Sir Ralph . |
| 23 | IN A short profile of Sir Robin Butler , Cabinet Secretary , last week , we remarked on the stag 's head that decorates his Whitehall office , adding : ‘ The prized antlers were awarded to Sir Robin after a victory in the Treasury 's golf tournament . |
| 24 | Then a young woman — dark , quite a looker if you liked that sort of thing but a bit too full of herself for Bennett 's liking — walked into the club and announced that she was the dinner guest of Sir Robin Day , he could only treat her to his coldly disapproving smile and direct her to the ladies ' bar . |
| 25 | They 'll justify their behaviour by saying that the interviewee needs to perform well under pressure to do the job ( odd that most of Sir Robin 's victims were politicians , though … |
| 26 | At Browse and Darby , William Darby has collected thirty-five paintings from different periods of the career of Sir Robin Philipson , who died last year ( to 29 May ) . |
| 27 | In 1629 Hobbes returned to the Continent on a second tour , as tutor to the son of Sir Gervase Clinton . |
| 28 | , Sir John , fourth baronet ( c. 1666–1737 ) , patron of the charity-school movement in early eighteenth-century Wales , and , more generally , of the evangelical revival , was born c .1666 ( the evidence of his funerary monument as to his date of birth being demonstrably unreliable ) , the second but first surviving son of Sir Erasmus Philipps , third baronet , of Picton Castle , Pembrokeshire , a Commonwealth commissioner for the propagation of the gospel , and his second wife Catherine , daughter of Edward Darcy of Newhall , Derbyshire . |
| 29 | Thus in 1786 , on the death of Sir Horace Mann , the British envoy to the grand duke of Tuscany , the post was filled for over six months by his nephew , who had no recognised diplomatic status at all . |
| 30 | To understand this , we first need to see how the problem of safety in the mines came to the attention of Sir Humphry Davy . |