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How to use the word British in a Sentence? Page #8

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Certainly hasn't, i haven't been in contention on a Sunday since the (British) Open last year. If I'm able to (be in contention on Sunday), at that point it will just be more of trying to win a golf tournament.

Jordan Spieth

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If the talks are not going anywhere, from my point of view that leads to only one conclusion, there are only two ways out of the Brexit crisis that we've got : either parliament agrees a deal or we go back to the British people and ask them to make the choice.

Hilary Benn

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Ireland and Britain need to work together, and the British and Irish governments will work closely together to try and do some of the heavy lifting with the political parties that can change this within weeks not months.

Simon Coveney

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I am proud that my new grandson is born into the British royal family and I am sure that he will grow up to serve the crown and the people of Britain with grace, dignity, and honor, god bless the child and I wish him health and happiness, and my congratulations to my lovely daughter Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry, and God save the Queen.

Thomas Markle

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I am proud that my new grandson is born into the British royal family and I am sure that he will grow up to serve the crown and the people of Britain with grace, dignity, and honour.

Thomas Markle

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I am proud that my new grandson is born into the British royal family and I am sure that he will grow up to serve the crown and the people of Britain with grace, dignity, and honor.

Thomas Markle

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Let the British Museum come here and make the comparison between this (Acropolis) museum of light and the murky, if I may say, prison of the British Museum where the Parthenon Marbles are held as trophies.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There was an awful lot of sympathy for the Soviet Union during the war and post war years, there was a considerable number of communists, socialists and fellow travelers in the upper echelons of British diplomacy and other fields, particularly in the laboratories of Cambridge.

Susanne Roff

Found on CNN
5 years ago

1951 was a tough year for British intelligence, klaus Fuchs had been terribly embarrassing.

Susanne Roff

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We hope that intensive discussions in London can lead even by next Wednesday, when we will have our extraordinary summit, to a position that British Prime Minister Theresa May can present to us, that we can then discuss, we will then stay together as 27. We will do everything, as I've already said, to the last hour, to prevent a disorderly exit.

Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It now seems that you and your cabinet have decided that a deal - cooked up with a Marxist who has never once in his political life put British interests first - is better than 'no- deal'.

Nigel Adams

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is the first explanation consistent with data returned from NASAs Cassini spacecraft for how a tiny moon such as Enceladus, which is only about as big as Washington state or the British Isles, has a subsurface ocean when other sibling moons that are bigger or closer to Saturn, and therefore more likely to have such oceans, do not.

Marc Neveu

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He asked us how old the car was and how we managed to preserve them, british cars are harder to maintain than the U.S. ones because there is a constant inflow of U.S. parts but many of the British ones are no longer even made.

Lupe Fuentes

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I'm British and I'm bothered.

Naomi Penfold

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The British royal family is the best soap opera in town, it's as simple as that.

Nick Bullen

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The story moved me. Knowing that he died just hours before the cease-fire. ... its sad like all war stories, i just turned 60 and I demand our sovereignty over Las Malvinas, but I also pay homage to all of those who died Argentine and British because I think thats the way to rebuild.

Diego Carlos

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

If the proposal were to go back to square one and negotiate a new deal, that would mean a much longer extension – almost certainly requiring the United Kingdom to participate in the European Parliament elections in May, the idea of the British people going to the polls to elect MEPs three years after voting to leave the EU hardly bears thinking about. There could be no more potent symbol of parliament's collective political failure.

Theresa May

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The Australians call me their adopted world champion and some of the Brits call me a British world champion, and some of the Brits also call me a stupid Australian idiot and say I should represent The Australians because I love The Australians more than I love England.

Tai Woffinden

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We can listen to the rhetoric of British politicians saying 'we'll make the Dover port flow, we'll let the stuff in' but what they fail to realise is that for every time you bring in an engine, you've got to send a pallet back to Germany, if the French aren't opening up their border, very soon you run out of pallets.

Aston Martin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We dont need time, we need decisions, if Britain needs a bit more time, we will not refuse that, but we are aiming for an orderly solution an orderly withdrawal by the British from the European Union.

Emmanuel Macron

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

If the British need more time, we would support an extension request if it was justified by new choices from the British, but we would in no way accept an extension without a clear view on the objective pursued.

Emmanuel Macron

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We're still connected to them, maybe as a colony used to be, but we're not governed by them, we just want to stay as we are, British. We don't need anything to change. All we hope is that things on the frontier don't change either.

Steven Grant

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

British Prime Minister Theresa May spoke to us today about putting a time limit on the backstop. We don't see a time limit as being the answer, because time limit can be extended.

Robin Swann

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

That should be used, used by all sides. But for this it would be very important to know what exactly the British side envisages in terms of its relationship with the EU.

Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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