Example sentences of "[be] john " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like you think you 're John the Baptist because an angel pointed at you . ’ |
| 2 | No they 're John 's |
| 3 | ‘ And I 'm John Davenport , ’ said the third tight-white-collar , offering his hand . |
| 4 | The fox-headed fellow , in the interests of a deep intellectual curiosity , strolled up and said , ‘ I 'm John le Grant , my lord Patriarch . |
| 5 | As it says I 'm John I 'm marketing director for Northern Europe with . |
| 6 | I 'm John Russell . |
| 7 | And welcome back to the lunch time phone in , I 'm John Simpson here now for another twenty eight minutes , and if you want to join in the discussion you can ring on Oxford three double one , one double one . |
| 8 | He said that apart from himself , the band would be John , Ed and Paul . |
| 9 | Marjorie does the books ; their son John runs the shop and helps with the coaching ; his wife Janie does the typing , and when I was in the office the lad who brought in the post said ‘ There you are , Grandad ’ and turned out to be John 's son , James . |
| 10 | IN a desperate attempt to keep the Bat boom , DC 's next treatment of the Dark Knight myth will be John Byrne 's Batman 3-D , which will come complete with a pair of 3-D glasses . |
| 11 | Boys are told — be John Wayne , be top of the class , score goals , do n't cry , make sure your pose is suitably heroic as you wipe someone 's face off your boots . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ being a person on foot ’ This point is proved by the officer or traffic warden stating in evidence ‘ A man , I now know to be John Smith , stepped from the kerb on the south side of the road and walked towards me in contravention of my signal to him to stop etc . ’ |
| 13 | I was asked if I was interested in pictures of Fergie , topless , in the arms of a man believed to be John Bryant ( yes , my contact did n't know how to spell his name ) . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Would that be John Preston ? |
| 16 | Alyce Faye , with whom he now lives , sunbathes in the garden and chats to a friend who used to be John 's accountant ( ‘ A Bennite , ’ says John , rather proudly . ) |
| 17 | ‘ To myself , by myself , I 'll be John , just John , plain John , the John I was christened . |
| 18 | If we take the example of John has been taken ill ( as a statement of John 's state of health ) , the foundation-laying element would be John . |
| 19 | The gardener presenting a pineapple to the king in a painting attributed to Hendrik Danckerts , possibly painted about 1670 ( later in the collection at Houghton House ) is said to be John Rose , and several copies of this picture — at Ham House and elsewhere — demonstrate an interest in this exotic fruit . |
| 20 | The top southern competitors have had the edge over the northerners in recent seasons and the two names to watch will be John Delap and Hugh Gill . |
| 21 | ‘ I am most grievously shocked , and so too , will be John Patten . ’ |
| 22 | Tim , My favourite ex player has to be John Sheridan . |
| 23 | Right well now , the secret bit , this happens to be John 's birthday , |
| 24 | After that the total amounts , or even a bit more if we look at it , erm , what over factor , Janet , no John , it must be John 's turn now , affects the allocation to units in those first four years by looking at that table . |
| 25 | Not again , it must be John then , John ? |
| 26 | Erm , right , oh , er , John , it must be , must be John , because er , must be David , yes . |
| 27 | Might even be John . |
| 28 | The Prime Minister gets his chance to pull them all together on Friday … it could be John Major 's judgement day or the jackpot . |
| 29 | What I 've got I 've already booked one this year for Paul in July , well that 's a waste of time now , so er at least one of them will be able to go on a ye yer you know there 'll be a , there 'll either be John |
| 30 | But the thing you wo n't like it , it 'll probably be John there . |