Example sentences of "that john " in BNC.
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| 1 | James had said that John Stewart the pedlar had seemed frantic that night — more so than the emergency warranted ? |
| 2 | I would like to suggest that John Adler looks to his own laurels before criticising rough carpenters . |
| 3 | It was as well for Yorkshire that John Howe and John Dixon were unable to assert any aerial authority for , early in the first half , John Orwin collided with the newcomer Steve Harris , suffered a neck injury and , though he stayed on , was a virtual passenger . |
| 4 | Sir : I am sorry that John Torode ( 3 October ) found the Salman Rushdie seminar ‘ dispiriting ’ , and even more sorry that he perceives in it the birth of a ‘ dangerously illiberal orthodoxy ’ . |
| 5 | It was there , too , that John Whitaker 's challenge ended when Next Milton made his first mistake of the show . |
| 6 | This is surely a slice of history shown as it really was , and all who served with Bomber Command will be delighted that John Searby recorded their courageous efforts so well . |
| 7 | Anyone can work out who the ‘ subspecies ’ Marxomanni , Mussolimini and Swastici are meant to represent , but they do not really play an important part in the story , since we can feel that John , the Pilgrim , is not really tempted or overwhelmed by them , any more than Lewis ever felt the slightest inclination to become a Maminst or a Fascist . |
| 8 | About a third of the way along stands the comfortable red-brick house that John 's father built in 1938 . |
| 9 | He had been the estate bursar at Oxford , and there was little about farming , estate management , rural development and conservation that John Higgs did not know . |
| 10 | Black Tam delphicly reminded Mr Gow that John Stuart Mill had coined the phrase ‘ the deep slumber of a decided opinion ’ . |
| 11 | If families like this one were on the wrong side in the Civil War , their property was sequestered by Parliament , but it appears that John Long petitioned to have it restored as his inheritance in 1650 , and it was probably he who built the present house . |
| 12 | In the small church across the way there is the most beautiful stained glass window that John Piper ever designed , celebrating his friend the Poet Laureate who worshipped here and lived in this well-loved rectory . |
| 13 | And banks say that John Major 's Treasury and local-government ministers have given them a more sympathetic hearing than Margaret Thatcher 's . |
| 14 | They will not be led by preachers at their church to face up to the fact that there are four Gospels , that John is significantly different from the Synoptics , that the New Testament writers do not always speak with the same voice even on essential matters of faith . |
| 15 | Having been taught that , at a time when priests were not disagreed with , it is small wonder that John Kennedy should have involved himself , and thousands after him , in an anti-Communist crusade in Vietnam ; that Joseph McCarthy should have conducted his anti-Communist witch-hunts ; or that Casey should have made the fight against Communism his life 's work , even asking that money should be given after his death not for flowers , but for the contras . |
| 16 | A jury swore in 1266 that John son of Nigel and his ancestors had been foresters of fee of Bernwood Forest ‘ from the Conquest of England ’ : another jury declared that the ancestors of William son of Adam had been granted the manor of Hutton-in-the Forest by Henry I , to hold by the serjeanty of keeping the bailiwick of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest . |
| 17 | The reliability of such evidence is shown by the fact that jurors in other counties swore that John had afforested Hewelsfield in the Forest of Dean , and the wood of Ross in Herefordshire , both of which are recorded in Domesday Book as being then within the royal forest . |
| 18 | In 1356 a commission of oyer et terminer for the counties of Gloucester and Hereford was issued to Richard of Willoughby and five other judges , on information that John Gayner of St Briavels and a large number of others , banded together by oath , had committed many trespasses against vert and venison in the Forest of Dean , assaulted the foresters , and : |
| 19 | SIR — Even his political opponents are on record as saying that John Major is a decent chap . |
| 20 | I now hear that John Hopkinson , director of the British Field Sports Society , is to surrender his responsibilities . |
| 21 | IT WAS 9.15 on Tuesday night , the din of a thousand jubilant Tories echoed round a Wembley conference hall and the verdict from the critics was that John Major 's final rally address had been a success . |
| 22 | THERE was a fear that John Patten might never make it to the Cabinet . |
| 23 | Share prices rose again in mid-January after it was announced that John Kerridge , chairman of Fisons , had resigned for health reasons . |
| 24 | Although nothing appears in the Minutes by way of members ' complaints , it seems that John Chalcraft ( Club President 1956–57 ) and Guy Blaker ( Captain 1949–50 ) sought to approach bondholders who might be bought out and there was a hope that the price might be negotiated . |
| 25 | ‘ It seems to me that John is the one who 's being unreasonable . ’ |
| 26 | It was her habit to drop in and see her daughter most mornings , and to take tea and chatter , a habit that John Carter frowned upon , as it interrupted Rhoda in her household duties . |
| 27 | ‘ When was it that John Livesey had to give up ? ’ |
| 28 | But now that John Gribbin has made it known ( Letters , 26 January ) that the term ( and presumably the concept ) ‘ centrifugal force ’ is favoured by the relativists , I am beginning to have second thoughts . |
| 29 | Even schoolfriends in Neptune remember that John Nicholson 's drinking occasionally caused the family some worry . |
| 30 | It was only then , for example , that John Bright , busy Member of Parliament , revealed that his stepmother , who had lived alone as a widow for nearly thirty years to the age of 95 , the last ten years blind , was visited daily by his own wife ‘ to chat with her and to cheer with her in her solitude and blindness , or to render her any help in her power . ’ |