Example sentences of "[be] john [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'm John Russell . |
| 3 | ‘ And I 'm John Davenport , ’ said the third tight-white-collar , offering his hand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Would that be John Preston ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Tim , My favourite ex player has to be John Sheridan . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I am most grievously shocked , and so too , will be John Patten . ’ |
| 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 | The Prime Minister gets his chance to pull them all together on Friday … it could be John Major 's judgement day or the jackpot . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | His half-brother John Brown MD [ q.v. ] was famed as an author , their grandfather being John Brown of Whitburn [ q.v. ] , and their great-grandfather John Brown of Haddington [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | This church was pulled down in 1830 and the present edifice was built , the architect being John Shaw ( 1776–1832 ) . |
| 17 | I tried being John Carradine earlier this evening , but it did n't get me anywhere . |
| 18 | When John Pilkington farmed land in Rossendale ( Lancs. ) his sureties were John Huddleston of Millom , William Plumpton of Plumpton and William Hopton of Swillington ( Yorks . ) . |
| 19 | When John Pilkington farmed land in Rossendale ( Lancs. ) his sureties were John Huddleston of Millom , William Plumpton of Plumpton and William Hopton of Swillington ( Yorks . ) . |
| 20 | Some of the others who eventually became well-known architects were John J. Stevenson , Charles Hodgson Fowler , Robert Johnson , and Scott 's own sons George Gilbert and John Oldrid . |
| 21 | His parents were John Halpin ( Halfpenny ) and Margaret Magennis ( McGuinness ) who married on October 21 , 1849 , at St. Matthew 's , Belfast , and emigrated to Australia with their sons on April 15 , 1863 , from Liverpool on board the ‘ Montmorency ’ . |
| 22 | Among those who went were John B Dynes and Edward Wright who had already served in the 1914–1918 War . |
| 23 | Two early silk throwsters who worked Oakridge were John William Jones in 1856 , and Charles de Bary in 1863 . |
| 24 | You were John Mayall 's longest-serving side man , and must have seen a good few guitarists and drummers come and go … |
| 25 | The other three were John Field ( d . |
| 26 | The victims were John Dale , ‘ the object of dislike and hatred apparently because he was in the habit of ripping people off in drugs deals ’ , and police informant David Norris . |
| 27 | There were John Berry , Robert Bridges and John Mason … |
| 28 | The two men , who by their election made history and fulfilled the dreams of Francis Maginn , the founder of the BDA , were John McDonald Young and Murray Holmes . |
| 29 | He was a pupil at Westminster School from 1772 , and ( as captain of the school ) matriculated thence at Christ Church in 1782 ; his college tutors were John Randolph [ q.v. ] and Phineas Pett , later his canonical colleagues . |
| 30 | Among her mentors were John Elliot Cairnes , W. Leonard Courtney , and W. A. Hunter [ qq.v. ] , from whom she learned an attachment to laissez-faire economics and liberal political principles . |