Example sentences of "[was/were] john [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its chairman was John Grierson who had never been particularly interested in responding to the requirements of the commercial market-place , and production control was in the hands of John Baxter , a onetime director whose films had been of the prosaic but worthy variety . |
| 2 | Also in the cast was John Leyton who told me : |
| 3 | The most promising newcomer was John Durward who is very interested in Scottish history , so Terry presented him with a book on it and a shield . |
| 4 | I think it was John Motson who once said ‘ That 's it . |
| 5 | It was John Hendry who got the shot in on goal but the ball flew into Milwall 's net off Phil Barber . |
| 6 | The earliest recorded member of the family was John Mould who had enclosed an 8-acre tenement out of Myddlewood during the reign of Henry VIII . |
| 7 | That could lose Mr Lamont his job but it was John Major who took Britain into the ERM with an over-valued pound . |
| 8 | Thornycroft 's shipbuilding business flourished and one of John 's fellow students at Glasgow University , John Donaldson , a Scot Presbyterian , married John 's sister , Frances , and in 1873 , became a partner in the business , It was John Donaldson who built the Tower House in Chiswick Lane in 1875 , and that house is now the home of the Missionary Sisters of Veronica . |
| 9 | It was John Wilkinson who first enabled Watt to build engines with large accurately-bored cylinders . |