Sentence examples for performance sir from inspiring English sources

"A brilliant performance, sir".

I hear the High Commissioner say to the Governor of Lagos State: "Well, I do hope you will be able to stay for at least some of the performance, sir?" But the governor is tired and leaves.

The British Olympic Association's director of elite performance Sir Clive Woodward was also in the crowd at the National Aquatics Centre in Stratford.

He recalls one particular performance when Sir Ian and Sir Patrick, giants of the English stage, were sitting behind the curtain just before the start.

His most famous part for the rest of his career remained that of Lord Foppington in The Relapse, a sequel to Cibber's own Love's Last Shift but written by John Vanbrugh, first performed in 1696 with Cibber reprising his performance as Sir Novelty Fashion in the newly ennobled guise of Lord Foppington.

The concert started with an extremely engaging performance of Sir Harrison Birtwistle's "Ring a Dumb Carillon".

A performance by Sir Elton John inaugurates the Philadelphia Orchestra's new home.

Or was it just the freshly conceived and glowing performance that Sir Simon drew from his players?

He really pulls off this tone where we don't know if he's quite good or bad," he says of Stevens's performance as Sir Lancelot.

But the appointment fell through after some WPP shareholders complained about the performance of Sir Christopher as chairman of an industrial company, the TI Group.

But as a recent King's Fund review of NHS performance since Sir Derek's 2002 report made clear, productivity has been falling.