Example sentences of "[be] john [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pilger was the only nationally known journalist mentioned in the prospectus ; one muddled council had even noted : ‘ The editor will be John Pilger of the Financial Times . ’ |
| 2 | His half-brother John Brown MD [ q.v. ] was famed as an author , their grandfather being John Brown of Whitburn [ q.v. ] , and their great-grandfather John Brown of Haddington [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | When John Pilkington farmed land in Rossendale ( Lancs. ) his sureties were John Huddleston of Millom , William Plumpton of Plumpton and William Hopton of Swillington ( Yorks . ) . |
| 4 | When John Pilkington farmed land in Rossendale ( Lancs. ) his sureties were John Huddleston of Millom , William Plumpton of Plumpton and William Hopton of Swillington ( Yorks . ) . |
| 5 | Gone , since I last travelled to research Mumby 's history , are John Wylie of Sauchiehall Street ( where Ross Higgins , a great personal bookseller , presided ) , W & R Holmes ' two branches and the Grant Educational Company . |
| 6 | The incident occurred in Whangarei and the alleged aggressor was John Rankin-Hurst of the Waipu club . |
| 7 | Such a one was John Kirk of Bowmore , who kept a diary from the time he went to America in 1852 , before the Civil War , and gives a vivid account of his impressions of Canada , Boston , and sweat and slavery in the South , but only a short account of his later years when he had returned to Islay . |
| 8 | Such a one was John Kirk of Bowmore , who kept a diary from the time he went to America in 1852 , before the Civil War , and gives a vivid account of his impressions of Canada , Boston , and sweat and slavery in the South , but only a short account of his later years when he had returned to Islay . |
| 9 | The contractor for the joinery work was John Kirk of Bowmore . |
| 10 | In 1723 , for example , the member of parliament for Stirlingshire was John Graham of Killearn , the chamberlain of the Duke of Montrose , a man chiefly remembered for having been relieved of the duke 's rents at pistol point by Rob Roy MacGregor . |
| 11 | Even Wat Tyler , the most famous of these , does not seem to have been involved in the earliest disturbances in Kent , as he is not mentioned in indictments dealing with disorder in Canterbury on 10 and 11 June , when the leader was John Hales of Malling . |
| 12 | It was John Ellman of Glynde , however , who was responsible for the most significant advance in local farming . |
| 13 | Another satisfied bookseller was John Elsley of Bookland . |
| 14 | First out of the hat was John Riley of Fribourg , Switzerland , who receives a signed copy of Melvyn 's meisterwork , A Time To Dance . |