Example sentences of "john [noun] [verb] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight , John Taylor revealed that his mother has had a stroke and he says the strain of the whole affair is to blame . |
| 2 | John was then no more than fourteen , perhaps younger , but John Wright says that his interest in ballet and in puppets was already apparent . |
| 3 | John Cole said that he was going to take his camera crew down into the foyer but , before he could do so , the Bridal Suite was invaded by the survivors of a defeated army . |
| 4 | After the Beagle returned to England , the ornithologist John Gould confirmed that there were several different species of finches and mocking-birds on the islands . |
| 5 | The case went before the Bishop three times when John Heryng pleaded that he had already been accounted before auditors appointed by the Bishop and that the account was in possession of John Ie Baker , now churchwarden . |
| 6 | John Upson says that it 's like being Managing Director of a good team . |
| 7 | Education Secretary John Patten replied that he was planning to announce counter-intimidation measures to be part of the Bill . |
| 8 | The contemporary historian John Manningham relates that it was the Queen 's wish not to be so treated and that this was obeyed , her body being ‘ … wrapt up in cerecloth , and that very ill too ’ . |
| 9 | Arguing from a neo-Marxist point of view Barbara and John Ehrenreich claim that there is a distinctive ‘ professional-managerial ’ class , which consists of ‘ salaried mental workers who do not own the means of production and whose major function in the social division of labor may be described broadly as the reproduction of capitalist culture and capitalist class relations ’ . |
| 10 | It is n't a good system , and we have now heard both Jimmy Airlie and John Edmunds say that they hope it will be the last time it is used . |
| 11 | Asked in the House of Commons about the allegations , which were repeated by the Sunday Times , UK Prime Minister John Major said that there was no evidence that any country other than Libya was involved in the bombing . |
| 12 | ‘ At Maastricht John Major proved that he can do the business for us in Europe , ’ says Jim . |
| 13 | If John Major believes that his narrow majority is a vindication of his decision to join his darling mechanism , then his understandable sense of personal triumph will have gone to his head . |
| 14 | In Ireland the Ulster Farmers Union has joined their Southern counterparts the Irish Association in condemning the proposals , UFU President John Mulvenna claimed that they would further depress farming in Ireland . |
| 15 | John Mowlem believed that he descended from the de Moulhams who maintained Corfe Castle for several centuries and to whom had been granted lands near Godlingston . |
| 16 | John Smith claims that they would benefit . |