How To Use patten In A Sentence
- The 'gora' Sue in Rang De Basanti, Alice Patten has since played a student joining the CIA in the political thriller Trade Routes and is currently acting in Richard The Lionheart in the BBC TV miniseries Heroes and Villains. NAACHGAANA
- There were still relics like this lurking in farm buildings when I started out on my agricultural life: I recall finding a woodworm-infected patten lying in the manger of a stable a week or so after the last draught horse had been put to sleep. Country diary: North Derbyshire
- Dorothy will be presented with her honorary degree by the university's chancellor Lord Chris Patten of Barnes.
- Party chairman Chris Patten, who repeatedly urged caution, was not to know that Treasury forecasts of recovery were baseless.
- Made between 1750 and 1830, pattens were worn over the shoes and served to raise the wearer's foot above the mud and dirt beneath, rather like prototypical galoshes.
- Like Patten, Veblen feared that the impoverishment of workers was leading them to lives of undisciplined pleasure-seeking. A Renegade History of the United States
- The Patten plan, detailed in a Government draft circular, risks further heightening confrontation with teachers already boycotting national curriculum tests.
- In a tribute he said that Mr Patten was a very popular and committed member of the group of people who had dedicated themselves to the revival of the yawl.
- Education Secretary John Patten believes the ￡1.4 million venture will raise standards by encouraging parents to demand more from schools.
- I declined the offer of what Patten calls "refection" also, tho 'I needed it on coming down stairs; for it had pained me very much to get thro' that interview. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle