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 . |