Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] john " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was William Foreman , a pioneer of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants , Alexander Wilkie , the general secretary of the Associated Society of Shipwrights and former MP for Dundee , and there were John Wilson and William Crawford of the Durham Miners , both Members of Parliament for divisions of the County Palatine in the 1880s , not to mention one of the most respected leaders of his day , Robert Knight of the Boilermakers to whom we owe the present day Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions . |
| 2 | There were John Berry , Robert Bridges and John Mason … |
| 3 | IN THE beginning there was John Mortimer QC , waxing lyrical about the great ideals of the 1945 Labour government and judging that its commitment to the welfare state and social equality made it the greatest this century . |
| 4 | There was John Lydon , rechristened Johnny Rotten , a hunched Irish boy with a complexion like used tissue paper , a vituperative turn of phrase and a sneer made in heaven ; and Steve Jones and Paul Cook , two likely lads rich with the authentic aroma of the Job Centre and remand home . |
| 5 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 6 | And then there was John Bennett Stanford , who was a wealthy amateur , who was one of the people who pioneered the filming of the Boer War . |