Sentence examples for name of sir from inspiring English sources

But the papers identify him as Iranian and don't recognize his adopted name of Sir, Alfred.

Add to the cast of suspects the name of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.

The director general's traditional code name is "K a designation derived from the name of Sir Vernon Kell, its chief from 1909 to 1940.

The theoretical roots of organic agriculture go back a bit further, principally to the work of a British scientist by the name of Sir Albert Howard.

Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden was hiding, bears the name of Sir James Abbott, a British Army officer, who founded it during British colonial rule over India, almost a century before the creation of the state of Pakistan.

She told her story to her agent & he informed her that there is nobody in the house by the name of Sir Thomas, never has been anybody in that House by that name.

Some 50 years ago, when I first went to the Stracheys' house in Gordon Square, I found that the name-board in the hall still bore the names of Sir Richard and Lady Strachey.

The names of Sir Clive Woodward, Eddie Jones and Jake White are dropped as naturally as leaves fall in autumn but the next England coach perhaps needs to be driven as much by hunger as knowledge.

Among the 11,000 pages of documents seized from the home of The News of the World's phone-hacking specialist, Glenn Mulcaire, in August 2007, the investigators also found the names of Sir Ian Blair, then the Metropolitan Police commissioner, and at least two other senior police officials involved in the inquiry, according to several former senior Scotland Yard officials.

This is utterly unjustified: Smash Hits was always critically switched on, never bowing before its high priests (behold the naming of Sir Paul "Fab Wacky Thumbs Aloft" McCartney), and it got artists talking about big issues as much as the fun stuff (I found out about Section 28 through an 1988 interview with the Pet Shop Boys, for example – I was 10 – as well as their thoughts on silly hats).

On reflection there are things we would have done differently, however the judge has ruled that the very naming of Sir Cliff was unlawful.