Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] john [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mayor of Bedford for the time being was always to be an additional director and at the time of the meeting the Mayor was John Wing , who had been sworn in on 29th September 1793 , and served for one year , after which he remained as one of the aldermen . |
| 2 | Among the latest people to back the campaign is John Sykes , MP for Scarborough and Whitby . |
| 3 | Among the latest people to back the campaign is John Sykes , the new MP for Scarborough and Whitby . |
| 4 | We have a monthly cooling tower water treatment with your company , the service consultant is John Norris . |
| 5 | The item in question is John Slezer 's marriage contract ( RD14/Box 40/792 ) . |
| 6 | The contractor for the joinery work was John Kirk of Bowmore . |
| 7 | In retrospect it can be seen that the most fatal blunder of the campaign was John Smith 's Budget — proclaimed at the time as ‘ an unparalleled act of honesty by any opposition party going into an election ’ . |
| 8 | Pictured above with UK parliamentarian Chris Mullin ( centre ) who campaigned for their release , from left to right are John Walker , Patrick Hill , Hugh Callaghan , Richard McIlkenny , Gerard Hunter and William Power . |
| 9 | The final member of the group is John Perry , a Leading Shunter with six years ' experience with the railway . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The author was John Hull , a secret sustainer of contras and allegedly a facilitator of drug runs ; he kept a ranch on the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border , where his favourite sport was to shoot alligators from his veranda . |
| 12 | Here his most influential teacher was John Reynolds , a moderate Puritan . |
| 13 | Another satisfied bookseller was John Elsley of Bookland . |
| 14 | The coroner was John Lancelot Martin , a personal friend of the deceased , as were several members of the jury . |
| 15 | This church was pulled down in 1830 and the present edifice was built , the architect being John Shaw ( 1776–1832 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ My name is John Openshaw . |
| 17 | My name is John McCarthy . |
| 18 | This is the lunch time phone in and my name is John Simpson . |
| 19 | My name is John Smith . |
| 20 | He 's about six foot two , short black hair , moustache , blue eyes and according to his record card he 's twenty seven and his name is John Banks and he lives at 36 Church Hill Road , Upper Tracey , and we think he 's been shot , I 'll be right over , stay where you are . |
| 21 | My name is John Young . ’ |
| 22 | My name is John Young . |
| 23 | Here 's a snippet : Johnny Marr 's real name is John Maher but as that was the name of The Buzzcock 's drummer , he changed to his present monicker . |
| 24 | The exhibition 's organiser is John Elderfield , Director of the Department of Drawings and Curator of the Department of Paintings and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art . |
| 25 | One popular religious writer who thinks that they believe in the same god is John Hick . |
| 26 | One such person was John Devoy , who was associated with the Irish Republican Brotherhood and who was also in close touch with the Germans , so he arranged for supplies of arms to be shipped to Ireland . |
| 27 | One such person was John Curran , a producer at ITN , who had already demonstrated his kindness by giving me an answering machine so that I could screen any calls from the press . |
| 28 | His name was John Tiller . |
| 29 | It belonged to the Maggot , whose real name was John Maggovertski . |
| 30 | Also involved on that occasion was John lord Howard , whom Gloucester now made chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the south in place of the dead earl of Essex . |