Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] john [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just confirmed for publication in May is John Ruskin and the Victorian Eye with essays by Susan Casteras , Susan Phelps Gordon , Anthony Lacy Gully , Robert Hewison , George Landow and Christopher Newall . |
| 2 | It was Berenson 's custom to entertain brilliant undergraduates from Oxford and Cambridge at I Tatti , and Scott 's companion from Cambridge was John Maynard ( later Baron ) Keynes [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | But the only really close dynastic rival to Robert Bruce was John Balliol , like himself a great-grandson of William the Lion 's younger brother . |
| 4 | The anthem at Canterbury Cathedral on April Fool 's Day was by Henry Purcell , whose Lloyd-Webber-adapted Abdelzar is John Major 's campaign theme tune . |
| 5 | Coming up for sale on Thursday is John Constable 's Harnham Bridge Looking Towards Salisbury Cathedral , with a price tag of £1m plus eight magnificent water colours by Turner which are pitched at about £365,000 . |
| 6 | In the old days , when Margaret Thatcher was still a chemist , and John Major was John Major-Ball , most MPs and many Ministers stayed away from the Party conferences , regarding it as a necessary vulgarity , an annual opportunity for the spear-carriers and party bit-players to travel to a seaside resort out of season to spend a few days in the proximity of the great . |
| 7 | FIRST Phil Tufnell was John Emburey 's pupil , then his county rival before emerging as a Test star in his own right during his older colleague 's Test ban for joining the rebel tour to South Africa . |
| 8 | Also from Batsford is John Richards ' Primula ( June , £60 , 0 7134 7070 4 ) , a monumental revision of the genus . |
| 9 | Two early silk throwsters who worked Oakridge were John William Jones in 1856 , and Charles de Bary in 1863 . |
| 10 | The name of the first recorded Master of the school in Stockport is John Randall . |
| 11 | Doc was John Smith ( for doctoring the figures ) , Bashful was Gerald Kaufman , Sleepy was Roy Hattersley and Grumpy was John Prescott . |
| 12 | One of the first tourists to venture into the former realm of King Zog was John Biffen , who soon discovered his fairly orthodox demeanor was regarded as offensively trendy by Albania 's time-warped Bolshevists . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The man in charge of Marlboro in FI was John Hogan . |
| 15 | The first major film to deal with Vietnam was John Wayne 's The Green Berets ( 1968 ) about the US Army Special Forces units , which had been present in Vietnam in an advisory capacity since 1957 . |