Sentence examples for Sir from high-quality English sources.

• “Sir?”

• Yes, sir.

• Beg her forgiveness, sir.

• Sir, they have approximately one minute to live, sir. 30 seconds. 10, 9, 8

• “Admirable, sir.”

• Very glad I should be, sir, to see Sir Henry on his way back to London again!”

• But where are Sir Ben, Sir Stuart, Sir Jimmy and Sir Jofra?

• After university, Sir Derek joined the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and Sir Ian joined the Belgrade Theatre, in Coventry.

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• Sir Robert Stephens stars in All Free Now (Apr 22nd, 6am) and Sir Daniel Day-Lewis appears in Dead-Heading The Roses (Apr 24th, 11.15).

• The first adviser, Sir John Bourn, left office when Tony Blair resigned in June 2007; Gordon Brown announced his successor, Sir Philip Mawer, within a week.

• The biggest test for Sir Christopher is likely to be not how well he gets on with Sir Peter, but how successfully he picks Sir Peter's successor.

• Sir Derek was a year ahead at school; they wound up in the same student production of “Henry IV, Part 2”: Sir Ian as Justice Shallow, Sir Derek as Prince Hal.

• The very next morning, Mr Field announced he was hiring Sir Paul Myners – one of Sir Philip’s oldest enemies – to be his chief adviser on the BHS pension deficit investigation.

• Some of the Maastricht rebels would go on to play leading roles in the 2016 Brexit campaign (before receiving knighthoods), including Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Sir Bill Cash and Sir Bernard Jenkin.

• Those he named as supposed "abusers" included former prime minister Sir Edward Heath, late Labour MP Greville Janner, disgraced TV star Jimmy Savile, and security chiefs Sir Michael Hanley and Sir Maurice Oldfield, who were the heads of MI5 and MI6 respectively.

• Although they never articulated the case publicly at the time, those telling Thatcher that there was little point in spending money on Liverpool also included the industry secretary, Sir Keith Joseph, and her Downing Street advisers, Sir John Hoskyns and Sir Robin Ibbs.

Sir sentence examples

• English humanism flourished in two stages: the first a basically academic movement that had its roots in the 15th century and culminated in the work of Sir Thomas More, Sir Thomas Elyot, and Roger Ascham and the second a poetic revolution led by Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare.

• Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet, in full Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet, (born March 7, 1792, Slough, Buckinghamshire, England—died May 11, 1871, Collingwood, Kent), English astronomer and successor to his father, Sir William Herschel, in the field of stellar and nebular observation and discovery.

• Knowledge of an Arctic passage came slowly, over hundreds of years, from information gathered during voyages by such explorers as John Davis, William Baffin, Sir John Ross, Sir William Parry, Frederick William Beechey, and Sir George Back, augmented by overland expeditions by Henry Kelsey, Samuel Hearne, and Sir Alexander Mackenzie.

• (Seated left to right) Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal; Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Winston Churchill; Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, (standing left to right) the Secretary to the Chiefs of Staffs Committee, Major General L C Hollis; and the Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence, General Sir Hastings Ismay at an unknown location