Example sentences of "[adj] mr [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Chinese source said Sir Robin was ideal for the talks , being one of the ‘ China hands ’ who had dominated British policy before the more combative Mr Patten became governor . |
| 2 | On no account was the aforesaid Mr Smith ‘ to have any balls at all ’ . |
| 3 | Former Royal Marine Mr Tipping , whose film and TV credits include Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , Casualty , Bergerac , Inspector Morse and Tumbledown , was attempting to reconstruct a lucky escape by parachutist Terry Wakenshaw . |
| 4 | And that would mean tackling the hugely popular Mr Yeltsin himself . |
| 5 | It is true that all polls showed how popular Mr Smith was with voters , and that he is the most experienced and competent man on offer . |
| 6 | Replacing the highly popular Mr Dubcek was no easy task , but on the grounds that Janos Kadar salvaged something in Hungary when he took over after the popular uprising of 1956 , Mr Husak might have achieved something . |
| 7 | A reflective Mr Punch celebrates his 90th birthday with a toast to the distinguished humorists who filled the editor 's chair , by Bernard Partridge July , 1931 . |
| 8 | Twenty-six-year-old Mr Krenzer receives his medal from President Mitterrand at the Elysée Palace , Paris . |
| 9 | Though the flippant Mr Ratner has said similar things in private before , the strident headlines produced by his speech seem to have shaken him . |
| 10 | The book should have been in Tollemarche 's only bookstore for several weeks ; however , when Hank casually sauntered in and asked for a copy , old Mr Pascall said it had not arrived . |
| 11 | And would she ever roast that bookseller , old Mr Pascall ! |
| 12 | Old Mr Pascall saw no reason why he should make life easy for a gossiping female and made her hold on , while he sold two ballpoint pens and a packet of rubber bands . |
| 13 | The inside door was chained , bolted and locked and had not been opened since old Mr Stott , the caretaker , had been buried with the key . |
| 14 | Thirty six year old Mr Jenkins is currently editor of news and current affairs at Scottish . |
| 15 | Thirty six year old Mr Jenkins is currently editor of news and current affairs at Scottish . |
| 16 | He removed them when he first came since they would not shut because , as old Mr Abbott the gardener explained , ‘ not once but twice Mr Betjeman reversed out of the garage without opening the doors , and when charged with stupidity , made the excuse that on both occasions he was wearing a sou'wester . ’ |
| 17 | " You never told me about that old Mr Bale , Lyn , " said Mrs Newman . |
| 18 | At the far side of the church , old Mr Pugh , who had swallowed about half a kilo of compost , was coughing furiously . |
| 19 | She and Jack , the boy she had been walking out with , were saving up so that they could buy the shop from old Mr Peabody , who wanted to retire . |
| 20 | Would you have any idea how old Mr Marr might be ? ’ |
| 21 | It is old Mr Snoot 's ambition to learn to recognise every one of them . |
| 22 | Beside her sat old Mr Fennell , deathly white but fully conscious , while the distracted Chignell was trying to minister to them both at once . |
| 23 | They 'd buried old Mr Rine that morning , she added , and old Mrs Crowley on Saturday . |
| 24 | Albert Tailors , in the shape of old Mr Albert himself , took one look at him and channelled him to the Teens Room , which was festooned with guitars and pictures of pop singers . |
| 25 | Hank was suddenly deeply grateful to old Mr Albert for taking him seriously . |
| 26 | He was not always praised for deserting the naturalistic mode : old Mr Rent-a-Plot himself , John Mortimer , chastised him for doing precisely that in The Old Men at the Zoo . |
| 27 | The rumour mill had been in high gear since late January , when the fifty-seven year old Mr Brown announced he would retire by the end of the year to devote more time to ‘ parenting ’ and to the university founded by his family in Providence , Rhode Island ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 5 ) . |
| 28 | It was old Mr Bennet from the flat next door . |
| 29 | Old Mr Bennet stood back . |
| 30 | From the window of his room on the top floor of the tenement building , Joe could see down into old Mr Webb 's office at the rear of the shop , and the outline of scores of books were clearly visible poled up against the filthy windows . |