Example sentences of "mr [noun prp] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , while in Newcastle , Mr Baker spoke of the need to catch criminals when they are young . |
| 2 | Obviously the effect of opting out on educational provision will depend upon the number of schools electing to withdraw from local authority control , and Mrs Thatcher and Mr Baker seemed to disagree about what would be an appropriate number : Mrs Thatcher hoped that at least 50 per cent of schools will become grant-maintained , but Mr Baker talked of a trickle . |
| 3 | A statement from Cleveland Police said : ‘ Following inquiries , it is now believed that Mr MacDonald died of natural causes . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Grenside learned of Joanna 's disappearance from his son , Christopher , who is divorced from Joanna 's mother . |
| 5 | She had not missed the fact that the coffee-table was piled high with past copies of Query and his arrogant manner was beginning to annoy her to such an extent that she was just about ready to storm off through the door and let Mr Parnham make of it what he could . |
| 6 | Mr Paisley spoke of the ‘ deep revulsion ’ over the hospital bombing and said internment should be a weapon in the armoury of any civilised country . |
| 7 | Mr Cotgrave spoke of the increased demands placed on police officers . |
| 8 | Friends of the Earth is warning Mr Redwood to beware of talk of a jobs bonanza . |
| 9 | Mr Hall said of his resignation : ‘ It was my decision . ’ |
| 10 | Last night , Mr Hall said of his resignation : ‘ It was my decision . ’ |
| 11 | The machine was not switched off , but Mr Lavelle died of natural causes , police said . |
| 12 | Mr Roskha said of the trouble in Kishinyev : ‘ Several thousand people from the Popular Front and other groups broke through cordons of police and climbed on to the tanks and armoured personnel carriers , waving banners and chanting slogans . |
| 13 | The first Mr Bond knew of the successful move by the National Australia Bank to put his brewery businesses into receivership , was through a radio news bulletin aboard his A$3.5million maxi-yacht , Drumbeat . |
| 14 | What did Mr Wheeler make of that ? |
| 15 | The article is the sharpest challenge by a Cabinet minister to church leaders , whom Mr Patten accuses of refusing to suggest that anyone except governments and institutions can actually be bad . |
| 16 | Mr Valle spoke of the ‘ global proportions ’ of censorship and he urged churches to take a more prominent role in denouncing ‘ lies , which , at a worldwide level , are silencing the truth . ’ |
| 17 | In a fumbling radio speech to his people , Mr Hussein spoke of fighting on — or leaving Kuwait on Iraq 's own terms . |
| 18 | Mr Faulks said of the application for the house loan : ‘ What we say he was doing here is , being unable to obtain loans in any other way , he is pretending to be selling his house to this fictitious person in order to get the bank to give him £43,000 on the strength of his house which they would otherwise not have given him . ’ |
| 19 | Jokes were thin on the ground but when Mr Lamont spoke of a new form of do-it-yourself income tax form for the self employed one MP raised a titter when he shouted : ‘ At least that 'll suit one person — John Birt ( the BBC director general ) ’ . |
| 20 | Mr MacSharry and Commission President Jacques Delors have been at daggers drawn for weeks over tactics in the GATT talks with the Americans with Mr Delors accused of favouring the powerful French farm lobby . |
| 21 | Mr Craven thought of his dream , and decided to return to England immediately . |
| 22 | Whatever Mr Pozsgay thought of the hardline backlash which began around 1973 , he kept it to himself . |
| 23 | Mr Miller said of a C$450m loan due last month on O&Y 's 68-storey Scotia Plaza building in central Toronto : ‘ The bankers have not agreed to extend or to push O&Y into default on that loan . ’ |
| 24 | But as he prepared to switch from the more austere environs of the Treasury , where he saw out the final 16 months of the last Tory Government , Mr Mellor spoke of the importance he and the Prime Minister attached to encouraging artistic excellence and preserving the national heritage . |
| 25 | Thus William Gilpin remarks in 1791 that Petworth House is badly situated because it does not lie at the centre of its park , but at an extremity , where it is elbowed by the churchyard ; Repton , whom Mr Rushworth thinks of employing at Sotherton , explains that proximity to a village may lessen dignity . |
| 26 | In his article , Mr McCaffrey speaks of exploring the Circuit by bicycle . |
| 27 | Mr Bush spoke of his ‘ appreciation ’ for Mr Gorbachev 's communication of his plan . |
| 28 | Mr Hunt said of the changes in the poll tax rules for teenagers : ‘ A new wider exemption will apply to all young adults under the age of 20 for so long as they are still at school or in full-time further — though not higher -education . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Biffen spoke of ‘ Stalinism ’ . |
| 30 | Mr Simpson spoke of the unaccustomed burden the landladies were having to carry and stressed the need for ‘ good public relations work ’ . |