Sentence examples for Mary from inspiring English sources

The Scots should be wearing belted plaid, or the rather fetching skintight tartan trews sported by Mary's father, James V. The Scotsmen tell Mary she must marry.

Back home, his wife, Mary, given the news that Tom was missing, presumed wounded, refused to accept the inevitable.

That was the key mistake, but it's a rule of modern broadcasting that you can't have a TV show without Ukip; even repeats of old children's classics are being re-edited as Mary, Mungo and Farage.

Would you ever work with her? "I'd love to work with Mary.

As Burt Lancaster says to her in I Walk Alone (1948), "What a fall guy I am – thinking just because you're good to look at, you'd be good all the way through!" She was born Emma Matzo, the daughter of John Matzo and his wife Mary (nee Pennock) in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

"From the very beginning, I've always belonged to you," Mary tells her husband's murderer gratefully.

"There's now little doubt that lifestyle choices can have a big impact on cancer risk, with research from around the world all pointing to the same key risk factors", said Prof Max Parkin, a CRUK statistician based at Queen Mary, University of London.

Reader, I didn't: I went and read a New Yorker profile of Professor Mary Beard's travails with misogynistic trolls instead.

The original piece described Mary Hanafin as the deputy prime minister of Ireland; she is not.

He confronted her at a local food bank by asking how "a Tory MP who votes for slashing welfare benefits" copes with visiting a place that "feeds the poorest of her constituents?" He says: "Mary Macleod has never been shown to her constituents in this manner.

Florence Fenwick Miller won the right to be elected to her school board under her birth name in 1877, and two of the first married women to stand for parliament, Mary Macarthur and Violet Markham, did so under their birth names.