Sentence examples for direction of sir from inspiring English sources

A vigorous elbow could send it menacingly in the direction of Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Anthony Hopkins.

The site was excavated between 1928 and 1930 by British archaeologists in Egypt under the direction of Sir Flinders Petrie, who identified the site as Beth-pelet.

But to his credit Mr. Maw provides rich, challenging roles for the cast, and under the assured direction of Sir Trevor, these singers inhabit them.

It was altered and given its grand Georgian style during the ownership of Thomas Pitt, the first Lord Camelford, and under the direction of Sir John Soane, called the most eminent architect of his day.

The Association was clearly aimed at Mary, whom government spies, under the direction of Sir Francis Walsingham, had by this time discovered to be thoroughly implicated in plots against the queen's life.

The tutelage of Sir William Temple (On the Garden of Epicurus, 1685) operated in England; whereas the later direction of Sir William Chambers (Designs of Chinese Buildings..., 1757), who had been in China, was more influential on the Continent.

The publication was produced in March under the direction of Gen Sir Nick Carter, the head of the army, the newspaper said.

Under the direction of his sons, Sir Dorabji Jamsetji Tata (1859 1932) and Sir Ratanji Tata (1871 1932), the Tata Iron and Steel Company became the largest privately owned steelmaker in India and the nucleus of a group of companies producing not only textiles, steel, and hydroelectric power but also chemicals, agricultural equipment, trucks, locomotives, and cement.

Mid-way through the vignette, a regular stumbles out of the nearby Old Bell Tavern, looks on completely baffled before staggering off in the direction of St Bride's, Sir Christopher Wren's "journalist's church".

Some analysts are questioning whether British Telecom can transform itself into a more nimble company under the direction of its chairman, Sir Iain Vallance, and Mr. Bonfield, its chief executive, two executives who have been slow to act the last year.

Michael Frayn suggested the new ship should be called The Exploitation and Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean as Performed by the Employees of the Cunard Shipping Company under the Direction of their Chairman, Sir Basil Smallpiece, or "Basil" at it would have been called.