Example sentences of "for mrs [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sisters ran for Mrs Reed , who called her maid , Miss Abbott , and Bessie . |
| 2 | What 's your explanation for Mrs Reed wanting to see Jane again ? |
| 3 | This is what they did for Mrs W and her children . |
| 4 | This is very inconvenient for Mrs Puri , as a great number of her close relations have emigrated . |
| 5 | After I shouted at you for not being there for Mrs Richards ? ’ |
| 6 | She had been the last to use it , when she unlocked it to get the morphia for Mrs Richards . |
| 7 | ‘ I will , but would you do that favour for Mrs Richards ? |
| 8 | They 're nice old people , and I think it would be good for Mrs Richards to come down to the village more , and be part of Santa Barbara . ’ |
| 9 | She paid an extra dollar a week for Mrs Benson to put Maria to bed and keep an eye on her , but somehow she did n't think that Mrs Benson was all that reliable as a child-watcher . |
| 10 | And she also knew that Dr Neil was well aware of why she had done what she did , and she knew something else — he was not only sorry for McAllister , but was even sorrier for Mrs Darrell , as well , a widow who had lost her husband in the most cruel circumstances , and for whom he knew that he would never offer , despite his pity for her . |
| 11 | Before they returned to be discharged , Richard Hartley , QC for Mrs Bauwens , suggested the judge himself could decide the case . |
| 12 | Well , that was Mrs Aggie 's other name for Mrs Nelson . |
| 13 | Another area of concern for Mrs Whitehouse , which also takes as its focus the young , is sex education . |
| 14 | Particularly important in this context for Mrs Whitehouse was the position adopted by the representatives of the Church : |
| 15 | This moral context would , for Mrs Whitehouse , stress the need for chastity , for an avoidance of pre-marital sex or ‘ trial marriage ’ , an emphasis on marital fidelity , as well as , by implication perhaps , support for the view of homosexuality as ‘ unnatural ’ . |
| 16 | This one , however , was to be far more personally taxing for Mrs Whitehouse , for the apparent consensus of opinion that surrounded her campaign against Thorsen evaporated as quickly as it had developed . |
| 17 | The Church , then , neither publicly condemned the poem , provided explicit support for Mrs Whitehouse , nor even appeared able to produce a united front in response to the prosecution . |
| 18 | The solution to this problem was for Mrs Whitehouse personally to take a private prosecution of the play 's director , Michael Bogdanov . |
| 19 | For Mrs Whitehouse the case was but one step in the attempt to preserve our ‘ national morality ’ and our ‘ culture ’ . |
| 20 | For Mrs Whitehouse and her supporters , publications such as this were dangerous not only because of their sexual content , but because of their political stance . |
| 21 | The ‘ permissive revolution ’ was , for Mrs Whitehouse , in many ways a political revolution . |
| 22 | Whether or not the likes of Richard Neville were accurately described in this manner by Mrs Whitehouse and other members of what Neville and his associates perceived to be the ‘ establishment ’ , or whether they could genuinely be described in Cohen 's ( 1988 ) terms as ‘ folk devils ’ , ‘ persons emerging to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests ’ , it is clear that , for Mrs Whitehouse , they represented a grave threat to all that she held dear . |
| 23 | For Mrs Whitehouse , the publication of Honest to God , although it was only one — albeit significant — event , was a key moment in the emergence of what both she and John Robinson described as ‘ the new morality ’ . |
| 24 | For Mrs Whitehouse , this radical theology constituted a new moral orthodoxy , and one which , in an inaccurate paraphrasing of John Robinson 's argument , it was believed that ‘ God is Dead ’ . |
| 25 | For Mrs Whitehouse it seemed that the Church was under a concerted attack and that , if it was not vigorously defended , then there would be nothing to prevent ‘ the tide of permissiveness ’ or the advance of the ‘ new morality ’ . |
| 26 | There can be little doubt that this was in essence for Mrs Whitehouse a symbolic or political victory . |
| 27 | The point of law was never decided , since leading counsel for Mrs Whitehouse withdrew the prosecution and the Attorney General then terminated the case by invoking the nolle prosequi procedure , leaving each side claiming victory . |
| 28 | Stable-mate Sillars Stalker looks a great bet to complete a double for Mrs Ramsden in the Cystic Fibrosis Research Cup . |
| 29 | It was in 1924 when I was fourteen that I first went to work for Mrs Field . |
| 30 | There was a big funeral and my husband , the head gardener , made a cross of fifty roses for Mrs Field to place on his coffin . |