Example sentences of "[was/were] john [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ) . |
| 2 | 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 . ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Among those who went were John B Dynes and Edward Wright who had already served in the 1914–1918 War . |
| 6 | Two early silk throwsters who worked Oakridge were John William Jones in 1856 , and Charles de Bary in 1863 . |
| 7 | You were John Mayall 's longest-serving side man , and must have seen a good few guitarists and drummers come and go … |
| 8 | The other three were John Field ( d . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There were John Berry , Robert Bridges and John Mason … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Runners-up were John Farrow and David Kerswall of Bury St Edmunds with 39 points . |
| 15 | There was William Foreman , a pioneer of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants , Alexander Wilkie , the general secretary of the Associated Society of Shipwrights and former MP for Dundee , and there were John Wilson and William Crawford of the Durham Miners , both Members of Parliament for divisions of the County Palatine in the 1880s , not to mention one of the most respected leaders of his day , Robert Knight of the Boilermakers to whom we owe the present day Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions . |
| 16 | Best Juniors were John Quinn and Sean Mullan ( boys ) and Anne McCall and Southend clubmate Orla Camplissan ( girls ) . |
| 17 | The two claimants were John de Montfort , younger half-brother of John III , and John III 's niece Joan of Penthiévre , who was married to Charles of Blois . |
| 18 | The two contenders for the leadership when nominations closed on April 28 were John P. Smith ( shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer ) and Bryan Gould ( shadow Environment Secretary ) . |
| 19 | The Honorary Members were John Couch Adams , the astronomer ; William Crookes , the chemist , of whom we shall hear more ; W. E. Gladstone , Prime Minister again early in that year in the midst of the Irish Home Rule struggles ; John Ruskin ; Lord Tennyson ; A. R. Wallace , the co-discoverer of natural selection ; and G. F. Watts , the painter . |
| 20 | Among his recruits were John Randall and Harry Boot . |
| 21 | And then there was John Bennett Stanford , who was a wealthy amateur , who was one of the people who pioneered the filming of the Boer War . |
| 22 | The best nine holes outward was Hugh McFadden and inwards was John Phillips . |
| 23 | One of the first tourists to venture into the former realm of King Zog was John Biffen , who soon discovered his fairly orthodox demeanor was regarded as offensively trendy by Albania 's time-warped Bolshevists . |
| 24 | That man was John Clement , previously from dairy and poultry group Unigate . |
| 25 | Richard Trevithick ( q.v. ) was John Harvey 's son-in-law , and the firm exploited Trevithick 's pioneering engine designs . |
| 26 | She also attests that , though she found a friend in the painting tutor Colin Hayes , ‘ the warmth and heart of the school was John Minton whose compassion , sophistication and wit were immensely necessary ’ . |
| 27 | He was John Shipp , the elusive subject of devoted study by Dr Ernest Gray . |
| 28 | Among them was John Ingram , who said that he and others had been drinking with Drew at 1.35pm that lunchtime , and that Drew had mentioned going to Cross Street to get a paper . |
| 29 | The first Leader of the Class was John Hamilton from Newmills near Gilford . |
| 30 | The incident occurred in Whangarei and the alleged aggressor was John Rankin-Hurst of the Waipu club . |