Example sentences of "[verb] john " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still loves John . |
| 2 | Three minutes later he brilliantly beat three men and found John Van ‘ t Schip , whose low shot was deflected away by the desperate boot of Jeff Hopkins . |
| 3 | for instance , in May 1987 it found John Craven of phoenix Securities to be the new chief executive of Morgan Grenfell , another assignment on behalf of Sir Peter Carey , who has since moved from the Department of Trade to become chairman of this major merchant bank . |
| 4 | The student found John big for his age , stony faced and sullen . |
| 5 | I found John to be , as usual , watching the television , and after getting no response I sat and chatted to his mother . |
| 6 | He fled to the prop-room , where he found John Harbour and Babs , huddled whispering round the fire with Freddie Reynalde . |
| 7 | But when I found John he knew nothing about car maintenance . |
| 8 | On arrival at Dale Fort Field Centre ( overlooking Milford Haven ) in 1963 , I found John Barrett 's staff using a project on their A-level biology courses involving the comparison of dog-whelk shells from exposed and sheltered shores . |
| 9 | Anne found John Redmond beside her , gazing intently at her but only talking about dancing . |
| 10 | On 27th November 1974 , on a Complaint by the Council of the Law Society of Scotland , the Solicitors ' Discipline ( Scotland ) Committee found John Duncan Haward Soper , Solicitor , 48 Great King Street , Edinburgh , guilty of professional misconduct in respect of his failure to discharge his joint and several responsibility along with his former partner to keep proper books of a trust and in respect of his failure to comply with the provisions of Rule 4 ( 1 ) ( a ) of the Solicitors ' ( Scotland ) Accounts Rules , 1952 , as amended . |
| 11 | She criticizes John for having accepted too readily the standards of the day and for having adapted too easily to the social and literary context in which he found himself : |
| 12 | But she did not need John Major to tell her what was going on . |
| 13 | It is said to have included John Buchan . |
| 14 | It was a bit unnerving ; they did n't even know John . |
| 15 | I do n't know John , I do n't know . |
| 16 | Babur is aware that now everybody will know John is his friend . |
| 17 | Oh you did n't know John ? |
| 18 | Another quite common occurrence would be : A : Do you know John Smith ? |
| 19 | I do n't know John . |
| 20 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 21 | I do n't know John |
| 22 | Right and when Mr said to everybody right , read out your stories and he did n't know John was so slow and so when he erm asked John to read his out , cos everybody had to read it out John goes when he goes reasons for writing er what is John 's called ? |
| 23 | It was nineteen sixty nine when Anne walked down the aisle with John Cullen … since then along has come John junior , Teresa , Angela , Clare , Caroline , Imelda , Aine , Martin , Owen , Paul , Catherine , Kerry , Christopher and more recently Declan … a grand total of fourteen children . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's a legendary Blue Peter challenge , ’ said Anthea , who joins John Leslie and Diane-Louise Jordan on the programme next week . |
| 25 | LONDON — A group of prominent white South Africans , including Wimpie de Klerk , brother of President FW de Klerk , began a series of meetings with the banned African National Congress in Britain yesterday , writes John Bulloch . |
| 26 | WASHINGTON — The city 's infant mortality rate has surged to the level of some Third World countries , largely as a result of cocaine-addiction among young women , writes John Lichfield . |
| 27 | SPD still fails to ride the wave : Setbacks for Chancellor Kohl and his team have not convinced voters the Social Democrats would do any better , writes John Eisenhammer |
| 28 | THE SENDER of the letter threatening Luca Cumani with violence unless he saddles the heavily backed Shellac in Saturday 's Cambridgeshire will have been appeased , temporarily at least , by the fact that the colt was one of 42 horses declared yesterday at the five-day stage for the race , writes John Cobb . |
| 29 | PETER RAWLINS , a former partner with accountants Arthur Andersen , has emerged as the International Stock Exchange 's next chief executive following the decision of Jeffrey Knight to stand down from the post , writes John Moore . |
| 30 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , yesterday raised the possibility that the Soviet Union might put the rouble on the gold standard as part of its programme of perestroika , writes John Lichfield . |