Example sentences of "mr [noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A Mr Portier was offered five guineas to translate the first part of the Professor 's lectures on ‘ The Bones ’ . |
| 2 | Mr Coleby was standing right on the step . |
| 3 | The Milton Keynes-based group , which kills 4,000 cattle and 25,000 sheep a week in the season , is expected to take an initiative in that area later this year , and Mr Canvin was giving little away in his address to the Safeway-sponsored Strathclyde Food Project seminar . |
| 4 | Wearing his now familiar Russian-style hat and white Ulster Protestant Volunteer sash , Mr Paisley was carried shoulder-high through the town hall 's main entrance to ‘ meet his people ’ . |
| 5 | A quarter of a century later , when Mr Gorbachev was feeling reform-minded , it was a head of department at TSEMI , Stanislav Shatalin , who drafted the ‘ 500-day plan ’ , a proposal for sweeping free-market reforms . |
| 6 | Mr Reed , Mr Cohen and Mr Wells were given 18-month suspended sentences . |
| 7 | Mr Gamage was fined 20 shillings on two summonses , plus one guinea costs . |
| 8 | Gen Aoun has rejected the Arab League-brokered peace accord under which Mr Hrawi was elected last month . |
| 9 | His spokesman Mr Zlobin said Mr Khasbulatov was receiving numerous telegrams of support for the results of the Congress session . |
| 10 | Mr Reynolds was kept warm and each procedure was quietly explained to him before it was carried out . |
| 11 | Mr Reynolds was kept comfortable by lifting and moving him gently every 2 hours and giving him regular analgesia . |
| 12 | Bouquets of flowers mark the spot where Mr Reynolds was shot dead exactly a week ago . |
| 13 | Both Croatia and the Lebanon objected on the grounds that Sotheby 's had been far from complete in its discovery process , and was trying to slip out from the case before the evidence of Mr Camber was made available . |
| 14 | A week after the s 24 order was made , Mr Flint was adjudicated bankrupt . |
| 15 | Mr Goult was found dead in an armchair at his ground floor flat in Woolfall Heath Avenue , Huyton , on Saturday afternoon . |
| 16 | Mr Spiro was found dead from cyanide poisoning in his truck three days after the November 6 massacre . |
| 17 | Mr Kinnock , reaffirming his confidence that Labour was on course for an overall majority , dismissed reports that Mr Ashdown was seeking four Cabinet places in a coalition with Labour . |
| 18 | The case became a hot potato for the government when Mr Yang was offered political asylum by Taiwan , China 's old foe . |
| 19 | As soon as it became clear that Miss Trunchbull had completely disappeared from the scene , the excellent Mr Trilby was appointed Head Teacher in her place . |
| 20 | An angry Treasury spokesman denied Mr Lamont was taking all of August off . |
| 21 | Mr Corps was leading eight Airbus Industrie investigators to the scene of a Thai Airways crash last Friday . |
| 22 | Mr Lavery was hit several times as he watched television and died instantly . |
| 23 | But Mr Humphreys said Mr Robson was ignoring those residents who were affected by the noise within the Memorial Hospital grounds . |
| 24 | Presumably Mr Yeltsin was doing all this in the name of some ideas or policies , but he barely mentions them . |
| 25 | In another development , Mr Campbell was appointed assistant editor on Mr Montgomery 's old paper , Today , by Richard Stott , former editor of the Daily Mirror . |
| 26 | After Mr Winkler was released last December , the 31 Swiss Red Cross delegates were withdrawn from the country . |
| 27 | Mr Buttell was certified dead at the scene before his body was freed by firefighters . |
| 28 | In 1985 Mr Carway was given two suspended sentences , one in the UK for possession of cannabis , and another in Ireland for cheque fraud . |
| 29 | Mr Morpurgo was driving two other students back from a pub . |
| 30 | After a while he was sure Mr Crangle was becoming suspicious of his persistent visits to the library . |