Example sentences of "mrs [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The winners of our Lilliput Lane cottage competition in the Inside Out supplement of March 25 were : David Whyman , Ravensdale Road , Darlington , and Mrs J.M. Russell , Durham Road , Framwellgate Moor .
2 Mrs Blair added that any move away from the bid and offer system to single pricing would not be accepted if it threatened to reduce or ‘ dilute ’ the value of existing unit holders investments .
3 Fireman 's Shovel , donated by Mrs Marpole , Bishop 's Castle .
4 It 's certainly will be difficult , Chair , but in answer to Mrs Tidley , what 's happening to our housing , the answer is we 've stopped building it .
5 In the Holy City of Mashad , Mrs Ghodssieh Alavi , a 50-year-old doctor associated with the ‘ pragmatist ’ faction supporting Mr Rafsanjani , took the highest number of votes and became the first Iranian woman to be elected outside Teheran .
6 Orinthia is an expansive , richly styled character , based on the exotic personality of actress Mrs Patrick Campbell .
7 Shaw 's infatuation with the actress Mrs Patrick Campbell , who was to play Eliza , clearly found its way into the script , giving Pygmalion a powerful undercurrent of sexuality , despite all the playwright 's blustering attempts to deny it .
8 But I read in The Independent that Bernard Shaw 's comedy Pygmalion , about the flower girl with a common accent and Professor Higgins , the speech doctor ( written for Mrs Patrick Campbell in 1916 ) has been revived at the National .
9 Her countless other parts in the theatre have included Helene Hauff in 84 Charing Cross Road , Mrs Patrick Campbell in Dear Liar and Ruth in Coward 's Blithe Spirit .
10 She worked widely in the United States during the forties and fifties , playing , among other parts , Blanche in Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire , then made her English début in the West End in 1960 , playing Mrs Patrick Campbell .
11 MR & MRS PATRICK CRERAND
12 From Bernard Shaw 's correspondence with Mrs Patrick Campbell some light has been thrown on his personal life and general outlook .
13 " You are Mr an " Mrs Montgomery , Mr an " Mrs Patrick Montgomery ? "
14 She wrote a play , His Borrowed Plumes , which was performed in 1909 with Mrs Patrick Campbell [ q.v.
15 Mrs Patrick Campbell ( B. S. Campbell , q.v. ) called her England 's ‘ first great intellectual actress ’ .
16 Nannies , boarding schools , ‘ bright young things ’ , coming-out parties , tennis parties , house-parties for Noël and Gertie , Mrs Patrick Campbell , George Bernard Shaw , Darling Binnie and Boo …
17 Mrs Dass read two further novels by Dennis Wheatley , and was unaware of the statements made to her husband by Timothy Gedge .
18 Mrs Dass exclaimed softly from her sun-chair in the bow window , and her husband confessed that he 'd found an old set of blackout curtains that were just about right for size .
19 Mrs Dass come on in a fluffy magenta dress and awarded the first prize to last year 's carnival queen and the second to Mr Swayles and the third to Mrs Muller .
20 Mrs Humphreys said : ‘ Had we received the £68,000 the company would still be in business . ’
21 Mrs Helmsley , aged 69 , stood stony-faced as Judge John Walker sentenced her on 33 counts of tax evasion and conspiracy to evade taxes .
22 Mrs Helmsley , dressed in black , had earlier walked to the front of the court and sobbingly begged the judge not to impose a prison term .
23 In addition , Mrs Helmsley has to repay the taxes with interest to the Federal Government and New York state .
24 Mrs Helmsley will appeal against her conviction and sentence .
25 Mrs Helmsley was found guilty after a trial replete with tales of how she bawled out employees and charged $12 department store brassieres to her hotel .
26 It was Tax Day , the deadline for Americans to file their tax returns , and the day that a New York judge had ordered Mrs Helmsley , 71 , to surrender to jail after two and a half years of appeals following her conviction for cheating the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) of $1.7 million .
27 That was just one of many ironies relished yesterday by Americans who had learned to loathe Mrs Helmsley for her ‘ only the little people pay taxes ’ remark , her greed , and her notorious arrogance .
28 Mrs Helmsley , who began adult life selling cigarettes in a New York cinema , had become so unpopular as the details of her manners and penny-pinching management technique were exposed in court during her trial that her lawyers based an eleventh-hour appeal for mercy on her likely prison victimisation as a ‘ notorious , widely-reviled , vastly wealthy New York Jew . ’
29 In her last public statement , issued through a publicity agent , Mrs Helmsley described her final evening at home as ‘ lying in bed , cuddling and necking ’ with her husband , Mr Harry Helmsley , 83 , the property magnate who owns the Empire State Building and who was also charged with tax evasion before being deemed too frail to stand trial .
30 Mrs Helmsley has been sentenced to four years in jail , and could become eligible for parole in 19 months .
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