Example sentences of "with john " in BNC.

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1 But the author 's debts to English literature do not stop with John Skelton .
2 An important step in the development of classical ballet for storytelling came with John Weaver 's staging of The Loves of Mars and Venus ( London 1717 ) .
3 Gary Callander , the former Scotland hooker , is in cracking form again and , with John Jeffrey staying down and grafting at second row , they took particular encouragement from their scrummaging in an 18-29 defeat by the powerhouse Heriot 's .
4 A close working relationship with John Wilkinson , the club chairman , developed over the last five years , and Ashcroft 's position was considered one of the First Division 's safest .
5 Chapman studied medicine at Cambridge and , on graduating , even briefly practised it ; of more significance , however , in the light of his subsequent career , was a meeting with John Cleese , with whom he was to write and perform numerous sketches , most notably for David Frost .
6 CONFERENCE HOTSPOTS CHILDCARE Childcare Crisis Fringe meeting with John Patten MP .
7 A Renaissance scholar with a strong emphasis on English drama , he was active on the Board of Shakespeare Survey , to which he contributed articles on Elizabethan satire while co-editing with John Russell Brown the early volumes of the influential Stratford-upon-Avon Studies .
8 This was a deal where Andy Robson , playing with John Pottage for Britain , did all the right things .
9 Opera North has also just unveiled a new Britten staging : Peter Grimes , directed by Ronald Eyre and with John Treleaven as the visionary Suffolk fisherman .
10 So what made us persist with John ?
11 With John in the band we began to search out songs which were really us .
12 Early on , working in tandem with John Higgs , he had brought in the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group and the Nature Conservancy Council to look at all the farms on the estate to make sure they were farming with conservation in mind .
13 Michael Powell noticed the development of a ‘ civil service ’ mentality within Rank at the time of making The Red Shoes , but his argument that ‘ there is something after all to be said for lavishness , improvisation and a certain amount of waste ’ was not likely to make much headway with John Davis , managing director of Rank from 1948 , who disliked creative people , considering them extravagant and unreliable .
14 Takeover talk now dominates with John Hall , the Tyneside entrepreneur and long-time combatant for control of Newcastle , emerging as a possible saviour of Hartlepool .
15 It begins with John Helm of Yorkshire TV introducing the speakers : Helm : Right , gentlemen , we have n't won a championship title since 1967 , but both of you know the rules — three falls or one submission and any knockdown and the one still standing retires to a neutral corner .
16 Others will include the TV premiers of Crocodile Dundee , starring Paul Hogan , Clockwise , with John Cleese , and Prizzi 's Honor , with Jack Nicholson .
17 The show ended with John Scofield and Andy Sheppard 's memorable first live meeting .
18 Fitzgerald , who lost his rag with John McEnroe at Wimbledon , had already offered his view of the pair .
19 And Rene was there to organise everything , including my joint press conference with John Peet , the Reuters man who ‘ defected ’ to East Berlin in 1950 .
20 This brought him into touch with George Bell , then Bishop of Chichester , and with John Marsh , the Congregational theologian , who invited him to Oxford .
21 This brought him into touch with George Bell , then Bishop of Chichester , and with John Marsh , the Congregational theologian , who invited him to Oxford .
22 David had originally made a demo with John Hutchinson , a demo which had been taken to Philips who were releasing in this country for Mercury Records in America , and they all agreed that this would be the first single under that contract . ’
23 David photographed at the Grammy Awards of 1975 with John Lennon , Yoko Ono and Roberta Flack
24 He also engaged in open controversy with John Bramhall , Bishop of Derry , about liberty and necessity .
25 This is made clear in his controversy with John Bramhall , Bishop of Derry , on the subject of free will .
26 With his paunch and his varicose veins and his rumbling tum it 's hard to equate him with John Wayne and Errol Flynn .
27 The blow was enormous , not least because Knox had been once again reluctant to leave Geneva for Scotland , and had done so only after consultation with his English congregation there , and with John Calvin .
28 Nonconformist ministers , like Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Joseph Parker , Henry Allon , R. F. Horton , R. J. Campbell , John Clifford , F. B. Meyer , R. W. Dale , Alexander Maclaren , Hugh Price Hughes , C. S. Horne or Newman Hall ranked with John Keble , Cardinal Newman , Charles Kingsley , Bishop Wilberforce , E. B. Pusey or Archbishop Tait as household names to be adored or vilified , depending on one 's religious loyalties .
29 Among the dozen or so ‘ King 's yeomen ’ and ‘ King 's serjeants ’ appointed to Forest wardenships were Robert of Stopham , one of the king 's huntsmen , who became warden of the forests of Clarendon and Groveley 1249–59 , and Master Walter of Durham , ‘ the King 's serjeant and painter ’ , appointed in 1271 to keep the forest of Galtres , along with John of York , another royal serjeant .
30 THOMAS SHADWELL was a successful dramatist in his own day , but he made the mistake of picking a quarrel with John Dryden .
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