Sentence Examples

1. Most likely they deal with petty theft, the odd break in, traffic offences and drunken British teenagers running amok.
2. But British India, properly so called, only embraces seven hundred thousand square miles, and a population of from one hundred to one hundred and ten millions of inhabitants.
3. A considerable portion of India is still free from British authority and there are certain ferocious rajahs in the interior who are absolutely independent.
4. A British civil servant went broke when barely into the renovations of a former gofio mill and was finding the building impossible to sell.
5. It may be said here that the wise policy of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native religions.
6. The British couple I worked for had bought and renovated an old farmhouse on the edge of Punta Mujeres and lived in it for a few years before deciding to sell.
7. One was the British consul at Suez, who, despite the prophecies of the English Government, and the unfavourable predictions of Stephenson, was in the habit of seeing, from his office window, English ships daily passing to and fro on the great canal, by which the old roundabout route from England to India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged by at least a half.
8. But the East India Company has now passed away, leaving the British possessions in India directly under the control of the Crown.
9. The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the larger portion of this vast country, and has a governor-general stationed at Calcutta, governors at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at Agra.
10. But to kill a whole family, a British family at that, would cause a scandal of international proportions.