Example sentences of "mr [noun prp] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the NYOS earned a pat on the back from Mr Baker for having by far the largest number of donors — 68 in total — giving sums under £5,000 . |
| 2 | As an author , he exploded at Mr Pascall for suggesting that the lists would make sure that children read ‘ suitable ’ books : ‘ What is suitable ? |
| 3 | Alex Brown thanked Mr Lang for taking the time to talk to the milk producers present but said : ‘ We know the final decision rests on your shoulders because it will be for the Secretary of State for Scotland to decide on whether proposals for vertically integrated milk co-operatives distort competition after the milk boards are deregulated . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Jones has criticised Mr Mandelson for announcing his candidature in a newspaper article and said that the spirit of the party 's selection code , which says the media should not be used to promote a candidate , may have been broken . |
| 5 | Mr Sergei Shakhrai , a key Yeltsin adviser , said he was instigating legal proceedings against Mr Khasbulatov for insulting him in an interview . |
| 6 | I thought within myself , ‘ With what eyes these poets see nature ! ’ and ever after , when I saw the sun-set stream upon the objects facing it , conceived I had made a discovery , or thanked Mr Wordsworth for having made one for me ! |
| 7 | It is a measure of success in any society when this post is filled as a way of taking the pressure off the General Secretary and we are grateful to Mr Field for offering his services . |
| 8 | The general advisory council , which helps the board of governors on policy , met yesterday and strongly criticised Mr Hussey for hiring Mr Birt under conditions which allowed him to be paid as a freelance , thus avoiding tax . |
| 9 | The story mentioned only in passing that the league table was one devised by Mr Malik for assessing Independent Islamic Schools in Wimbledon . |
| 10 | Then , early in the New Year a powerful committee of MPs will issue a report criticising Mr Lamont for hiding another £18,414 payment from Tory Party funds . |
| 11 | But ICAS has criticised Mr Lamont for failing to take action to allow businesses to claim tax relief for expenses incurred after they have ceased trading . |
| 12 | At a press conference afterwards Mr Cools blamed Mr Antonis for choosing Pierre-Alain Hubert , a Frenchman , rather than Eugeen Hendrickz , a local pyrotechnician , to run the fireworks display . |
| 13 | Mrs Thatcher was critical of Mr Kinnock for thinking that he had victory in the bag before the result was declared . |
| 14 | Another of this weekend 's conventional theses , which was anticipated here , was that of Kinnockian hubris — the possibility that voters went off Mr Kinnock for carrying on as if he had already won . |
| 15 | He criticised Mr Heseltine for failing to find a market for one single extra tonne of coal while Richard Caborn , the Labour chairman of the Commons energy select committee , claimed that all 31 pits would be closed within three to four years . |
| 16 | The university had sacked Mr Jeffries for making an anti-Semitic speech ; he accused the Jews of masterminding ‘ a financial system of destruction of black people ’ . |
| 17 | ( The ‘ Editorial Assistant ’ apologises to Mr Hearse for omitting his name from the corresponding article in the last Journal . ) |
| 18 | Hank was suddenly deeply grateful to old Mr Albert for taking him seriously . |
| 19 | Ashok Kumar , Labour candidate for Langbaurgh , blasted Mr Clarke for snubbing representatives of Cleveland Ambulance staff during his whistle-stop tour of Cleveland Ambulance Trust headquarters . |
| 20 | Last year it mounted a formidable campaign against the reforms : posters mocked Mr Clarke for ignoring medical advice , and leaflets in every surgery criticised the government for undermining the NHS . |
| 21 | Blaming Mr Adamec for sparking a ‘ political crisis ’ by his act , the Civic Forum opposition movement said the ruling but discredited Communist Party had to forfeit the prime ministership or the presidency . |
| 22 | Edwina Currie rightly criticised Mr Major for stomping around in a Barbour jacket . |
| 23 | This week Bill Cash persuaded 105 other Tory MPs to sign a motion congratulating Mr Major for resisting the latest proposals for political and monetary union . |
| 24 | He thanked Mr Major for clearing him of any breach of ministerial rules . |
| 25 | Trollope thus praises Mr Thorne for continuing to inhabit the great hall at Ullathorne Court ( there is no dining-room ) , with no more concession to modernity than a modem grate , although it is now only the socially acceptable , not the humble , who come to the great front door that opens into it . |
| 26 | The last straw , he maintained , was the education minister 's criticism of Mr Rabin for reciting the Jewish affirmation of faith , ‘ Hear O Israel ’ , at a Holocaust memorial ceremony at the site of the Warsaw ghetto . |
| 27 | Mr Macdonald praised Mr Young and Mr Smith for chasing Forman , saying that they had started the trail which led to his arrest , though the money had not been recovered . |
| 28 | And these same Labour members have the nerve to criticise Mr Smith for offering weak opposition to the Government ! |
| 29 | We have heard quite a lot , colleagues , about pensions and pension schemes over the last eighteen months perhaps we have to actually thank Mr Maxwell for raising the issue , even if those pensioners he cheated wo n't thank him . |
| 30 | The inquiry also blasted Mr Evans for standing too close to the start- line . |