Example sentences of "john [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 2 | Mrs Helmsley , aged 69 , stood stony-faced as Judge John Walker sentenced her on 33 counts of tax evasion and conspiracy to evade taxes . |
| 3 | When the botanical writer John Worlidge described it in 1676 , he called the fruit ananas , a Brazilian dialect word , but went on to call it a ‘ fruit like a pineapple but much bigger ’ . |
| 4 | As Sir John Fielding put it in 1758 : The infinite variety of professions , trades , and manufactures joined to the army , navy and services , leave few men idle , unless from choice ; whilst women have but few trades , and fewer manufactures to employ them . |
| 5 | But I erm I was born in West Norwood , nes , wo West Norwood but where John Major took you to last night on his tour |