Example sentences of "[adj] mrs [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That task fell to the strictly British Mrs Isabel Travers , who never needed any encouragement to explain how FAMILY was born . |
| 2 | He walked back along the path , rebuking himself for entertaining Mrs Diamond 's lurid notions . |
| 3 | The Hon. Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke was a bossy lady , as you would expect . |
| 4 | The Hon. Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke , ‘ You can call me Mollie ’ , had been a widow since 1979 when her husband was lost in a blizzard . |
| 5 | Mr and Mrs Dombey scandalize the Hon. Mrs Skewton by finding it ‘ dull ’ when they honeymoon there , DS 35 . |
| 6 | The charming Mrs Fitzsimmons was at the ringside screaming : ‘ 'It 'im in the slats , Bob ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Ah , the charming Mrs Talbot . |
| 8 | Another jacket , knitted by a different Mrs C was in pure wool , purchased on the club 's outing to the Coleharbour Mill in Devon last year . |
| 9 | To the world , of course , I was busy , self-assured Mrs Sutherland ; the world did not see my breakwaters sinking lower every day . |
| 10 | But Jess was not to hear the rumours or have a chance to ask what a syndicate was , because Sally and Salt came back , and seconds later a rather rosy Mrs Stocks reappeared clutching two bottles of brandy . |
| 11 | Mr Hnatiuk had taken one look at the approaching Mrs Frizzell and had dived for cover into a knot of other businessmen . |
| 12 | But 24 hours earlier , a flock of shrieking paparazzi had tailed them all over London ; because 40-year-old Mrs Koons , nee Ilona Staller , is the former Italian parliamentarian and porn star Cicciolina ( variously translated as ‘ the dumpling ’ , ‘ the plump one ’ and ‘ little pinchable one ’ ) , while her husband is the most talked-about artist since Andy Warhol . |
| 13 | I am afraid Mrs Frobisher is going to have to leave us now . |
| 14 | ‘ But I 'm afraid Mrs Birkin is going to have to raid the freezer if we 're to have enough for three tonight . ’ |
| 15 | Juliet nodded , remembering how afraid Mrs Hazell had been . |
| 16 | It was clear Mrs Baggley was , in her own way , making comments about a possible motive for Gray 's murder . |
| 17 | Staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital at first tried to induce labour on January 31 but when it became clear Mrs Busuttil , now of West Drayton , London , was not in labour they discontinued their efforts . |
| 18 | It could also turn the spotlight unfavourably on the assertive Mrs Clinton , who has herself become a ‘ campaign issue ’ . |
| 19 | Whether it was the abandonment in 1981 of established procedures for settling the pay and conditions of civil servants , abolition of the Civil Service Department in the same year , deterioration of levels of pay relative to the private sector , efficiency scrutinies in departments in search of savings , attempts to limit index-linked pensions , or the reduction in numbers of staff , there was no doubting Mrs Thatcher 's hostility to much of the ethos of the civil service . |
| 20 | His link with the redoubtable Mrs Curdle is a long one , and strengthened by her annual visit at the time of the fair . |
| 21 | Emily started forward but the redoubtable Mrs Dooley laid a reassuring hand on her arm . |
| 22 | Daniel had not been told why or from where — the redoubtable Mrs Thackray had come forward at once to make her contribution to the cause . |
| 23 | From his promising interview with the redoubtable Mrs Fitton , he had driven directly to Mansfield Memorial Hospital with medical records in mind . |
| 24 | Thirty year old Mrs Godwin from Spratton near Northampton was on holiday visiting her friend . |
| 25 | Many of the older folk will remember Bobby Whale , who ran a fried fish shop from his house in Kent Road , and old Mrs Poysden whose toffee apples were the best I 've ever tasted . |
| 26 | She hissed , ‘ Do do something about the Taylors and old Mrs Phipson . |
| 27 | And then she saw him talking to Edward and Jean Powers and then someone had mislaid their glass and she had to find another and then there was the problem of the Taylors and old Mrs Phipson . |
| 28 | The idea came from old Mrs Ferrar , who proposed that from time to time the family should confer on some subject which should ‘ tend either to the information or to the excitement of the affections ’ . |
| 29 | Old Mrs Ferrar was ‘ the Mother ’ ; on her death this title passed to Mary Collett . |
| 30 | He was received by old Mrs Ferrar and Nicholas , to whom he spoke frankly of how he had heard of ‘ their watching and praying at night , of their altar richly decked with plate , tapestry and tapers , of their adoration and genuflections on entering therein , which might savour of superstition and popery ’ . |