Example sentences of "[was/were] mrs [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Present were Mrs Jameson , Mr Bagehot , Ash the poet , without Mrs Ash , who was indisposed , and some younger members of the London University . |
| 2 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 3 | They were , and so were Mrs Taylor 's twins , Joey and Harry , and little Billy . |
| 4 | The headmaster was Mr Welsh and the two teachers were Mrs Ross and Miss Annie McDonald . |
| 5 | ‘ But you were Mrs Darcy 's school friend . ’ |
| 6 | In the middle of them were Mrs Phipps and Mrs Taylor , our neighbours , sitting on the step crying . |
| 7 | The murder victims were Mrs Kathleen Curran and her daughter Angela , who lived at Edenvale Avenue , a few doors from the accused . |
| 8 | For example , in the story above , Mrs Glen may have jumped to the wrong conclusion but if you were Mrs Glen how would YOU feel if you were tired , your lesson had been disrupted by exams in the hall next door , several people in the class were being awkward , you get interrupted by an unhappy violin teacher moaning about his pupils not turning up on time and then you re-enter your classroom to find someone crawling under your desk with a handful of expensive musical instrument ? ! |
| 9 | His first victims were Mrs Smart and her son Andrew . |
| 10 | But when they reached the drawing room , the only people there were Mrs Denham and Martin , and the baby , which was sitting in a high chair . |
| 11 | In 1793 there were Mrs Wood of Lime Grove , Putney ; Mrs Codrington of Davies Street , Berkeley Square ; Lady Elcho of Queen Anne Street , Westminster ; in 1822 , Mrs Boucherett at J. Angerstein 's House , Pall Mall ; Miss E. Corbett of Wimpole Street ; Lady C. Denys at the Pavilion , Hans Square ; Lady Mary Eyre of Mortlake ; Mrs J. Franks of Charles Street , Berkeley Square ; Countess Glengall , Lower Grosvenor Street , Mrs Arabella Rainley , Chesterfield Street ; Mrs Rougement of Clapham ; Mrs Shepherd of Wimpole Street . |
| 12 | Secondly were Mrs White 's brother and sister-in-law who were reported earlier as saying at second interview that they thought she should remain at home ‘ if things keep as they 're going now , and she gets the services she 's getting ’ . |
| 13 | So were Mrs Patel 's , who had cocked her head on one side to listen better . |
| 14 | It was Mrs Prime , Maria Shill 's mother . |
| 15 | So was Mrs Keble , who 'd taken eight pounds odd on the tombola . |
| 16 | ‘ Was Mrs Marr living at the Rectory ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ How did you know it was Mrs Marr 's ? ’ |
| 18 | The turning point was Mrs Brown 's campaign against the Foreign Secretary . |
| 19 | ‘ At the other end of the social see-saw was Mrs Field of Lartington Hall , widow of the grandson of millionaire Marshall field . |
| 20 | Her name was Mrs Tobias and Hugh had met her when he handled her divorce case , successfully , because Mr Tobias had made a determined rush for freedom , scattering alimony lavishly as he went . |
| 21 | He asked for the divorce to be put off , which the King said was Mrs Simpson 's business , and he urged that she should go away for six months . |
| 22 | The second , inadvertently , was Mrs Simpson . |
| 23 | The Mrs Simpson , she thought , who was Mrs Simpson . |
| 24 | It was Mrs MacDonald who owned the post office . |
| 25 | I 'm not sure but I think it was Mrs Turner . |
| 26 | This is where the ‘ wake-up-a-poet-or-a-madman ’ legend is properly located — it was Mrs Hemans , I think , who transposed it from Maen Du'r Arddu to Llyn Cau . |
| 27 | ‘ Chris , my dear boy , how are you and how was Mrs Newton ? ’ |
| 28 | Her name was Mrs Newton . |
| 29 | The professor was Mrs Gutermann 's most prestigious boarder , and her favourite . |
| 30 | It was Mrs Little . |