Example sentences of "john [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in the Peruvian language Amahuacan , there is an L-tense affix ( call it " T " ) which means different things at different times of the day : john kicked-T Bill said in the afternoon means " John kicked Bill in the morning " , but said in the morning it means " John kicked Bill yesterday " . |
| 2 | Answers parrot , black spot , walk the plank , jolly roger , long john silver , eye patch , cutlass , treasure , man overboard , land ahoy . |
| 3 | john Noakes was a giant of a man . |
| 4 | In March 1931 , Sir john Simon spoke of socialism as ‘ a poisonous doctrine ’ and declared that he would not close his mind to tariffs as a method of dealing with the economic crisis . |
| 5 | They hooped and hollered with john Wayne , Sitting Bull , Doris Day and Jack Palance , thirsty for the shooting and the scalping , riding hell for leather through gorges and down hillsides . |
| 6 | on john tomlinson |
| 7 | john tomlinson scrapes the very throat of his character , squeezes all the passion , nobility and madness out of him ( boris ) |
| 8 | it is difficult to outshine john tomlinson |
| 9 | john hegley : stand-up poet |
| 10 | The visit of Pope john Paul II over the Spring Bank Holiday returned people to the railways in numbers not seen since the 1950s . |
| 11 | The Thwaites at High Birk Hatt farmed alongside the Hauxwells , and john Thwaites worked with Uncle Tommy and the Fawcetts for Sir Emmanuel John and his wife Marie live in retirement nowadays not far from Cotherstone and they actually cut short their honeymoon in order not to miss the shoot . |
| 12 | By 1989 InterCity director Dr john Prideaux was reassuring his customers that it was wrong to regard the APT as a failure ; it had indeed been a great design success ! |
| 13 | The less formalized form of religion brought to the Dales by john Wesley and his brother suited the collective personality of these people perfectly . |
| 14 | John Caldicot ( AP ) won the title with a one under par 71 , followed by Ian Burnett ( Bootle ) 73 , Dave Ball ( AP ) 74 , Frank Willis ( Bootle ) 74 , John Sondegaard ( West Hoyle ) 74 , and Ken Smith ( Dudley ) 75 . |
| 15 | John Caldicot ( AP ) won the title with a one under par 71 , followed by Ian Burnett ( Bootle ) 73 , Dave Ball ( AP ) 74 , Frank Willis ( Bootle ) 74 , John Sondegaard ( West Hoyle ) 74 , and Ken Smith ( Dudley ) 75 . |
| 16 | The collections are organised by John Cannovan , department supervisor who stressed that it was a team effort and that keeping the books straight was just a part of it . |
| 17 | Other members of the club not mentioned before are John Cannovan , Dugald Ferguson , Stewart Fernie and Pat Meechan . |
| 18 | The young hero , John Kemp , grows up with the ardent expectation of rose-coloured , agreeable adventure : |
| 19 | In trouble after a smuggling affray , early in the nineteenth century , John Kemp escapes to Jamaica and works his way to prosperity as a plantation owner . |
| 20 | To the still ardent John Kemp the old Don is a romantic figure , while Don Baltasar for his part dreams of England as a glamorous country , free from the political pressures of his own adopted land . |
| 21 | The constant dangers and perplexities that beset John Kemp arise from the ferocious enmity of O'Brien , whose hatred of anything English is increased by his hopeless love for the Don 's daughter Seraphina , for whose sake he moderates from time to time his evil power over the old aristocrat . |
| 22 | To John Kemp Seraphina becomes the beloved ideal as well as the victim of persecution whom he vows to rescue . |
| 23 | Competition Policy — John Kemp |
| 24 | Reg. v. Roberts ( John Marcus ) ( 1984 ) 80 Cr.App.R. 89 , C.A. |
| 25 | It is , however , a power which should be used most sparingly and rarely exercised : see Reg. v. Roberts ( John Marcus ) ( 1984 ) 80 Cr.App.R. 89 , and the cases therein cited , at p. 96 . |
| 26 | , John Christian ( 1756–1828 ) , agriculturist and parliamentarian , was born 12 July 1756 at Ewanrigg , Dearham , Cumberland , the eldest to survive infancy of the sons of John Christian of Ewanrigg and his wife Jane , eldest daughter of Eldred Curwen of Workington Hall . |
| 27 | In St Peter 's school at Vauxhall which is described later , we see the work of another very talented church architect , John Loughborough Pearson ( 1817–97 ) . |
| 28 | My greatest debt is to my supervisor in Cambridge , John Groeger , for support and friendship . |
| 29 | John Ferguson , the Canberra Raiders wing who lines up against Widnes tonight in the Foster 's World Club Challenge , is little known outside rugby league circles , but within the game he commands a whispered respect his more famous namesakes might envy . |
| 30 | John Ferguson , Canberra Raiders wing , recalling ‘ 85 RL cup final when playing for Wigan . |