Example sentences of "john [noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Gribbin takes on the role of New Scientist 's agony aunt |
| 2 | Sir John Pennycuick went on to refer to the far-reaching limitations which govern the exercise of the jurisdiction . |
| 3 | John Ward picks up the story … |
| 4 | John Reed rushed in . |
| 5 | It was a different world when John King took over the village shop early in the 1950s . |
| 6 | In the event , John Conteh dropped down a division and Johnson took his place , proving the legitimacy of his claim by beating two contenders and then the champion to become the first black heavyweight champion of Great Britain . |
| 7 | COHSE members coming out on strike because of their refusal to take a little boy into the theatre for an operation , pin-ups being removed from the Yorkshire miners ' newspaper , painkillers being laced with poison in the US , John Nott walking out on Robin Day in front of the TV cameras , Helmut Kohl taking over from ( crash ) Helmut Schmidt and public service pay rises being kept down to 3 ½ per cent , every single event being , in some eyes , a disaster . |
| 8 | ITN 's secret weapon was much more advanced , an experiment never tried before : it was a computer simulation of the chamber of the House of Commons , with John Suchet walking around inside it . |
| 9 | Woman Corporal Debbie Burns and Corporal John Harvey make up today 's Wall patrol . |
| 10 | TRAINER John Gosden walked off a heavy lunch in Sussex yesterday and plotted a tasty treble at Goodwood . |
| 11 | TRAINER John Gosden made up for Brier Creek 's narrow Ebor defeat when Badawi took the Andy Capp Handicap at York yesterday , writes Carles Fawcus . |
| 12 | After 5 years in captivity , John McCarthy flew back into this region , his first step onto British soil taken at RAF Lyneham . |
| 13 | Sir John Rimmer digs up the Presley hoard . |
| 14 | But John Devereux raced in for two tries to keep Widnes in the game before O'Neill scampered through score the winner . |
| 15 | Dundee defender , Steve Pittman , latched on to a defensive error by John Inglis to race down the left flank . |
| 16 | Things went Charlton 's way against a Sunderland side that had John Kay sent off after 15 minutes and then conceded two bizarre second-half own goals . |
| 17 | John Hitch walked in , smiling at Scott , who merely exhaled wearily . |
| 18 | In fact , John Hill cleaned up as predicted and is off to New Zealand to plough proudly for Britain in the world championships . |
| 19 | John Michell points out : |
| 20 | As John Michell pointed out in his pioneering paper in 1783 , a black hole still exerts a gravitational force on nearby objects . |
| 21 | I remember Elizabeth Thursfield with John Richard and Anthony , waiting anxiously for Rupert to come out of Burma , and John Richard coming down to have lessons with me . |
| 22 | And if you want to know what that is wheezing , clanking and snorting in the background — a sound resembling a veteran totter emerging from a collection of Blue Peter cans — it 's Sir John Junor dressed up in armour and on white charger . |
| 23 | SKIPPER Dean Bell will be front-runner to take over as Wigan coach when John Monie goes back to Australia next May . |
| 24 | WHEN John Boorman took on the job of co-editing this anthology , which is intended to be an annual event , and writing the chronicle of 1991 which comprises almost half its contents , he can not have imagined that he would be revealing so much about the reasons for his own creative decline . |
| 25 | John Nicholson wafted in and out of their lives and Jack 's recollections of the man he imagined was his father are tinged with a certain sorrow that he had become an alcoholic , with memories of scenes on the home front , and of the young Jack cooling his heels outside one bar or another with a fizzy drink while his ‘ father ’ stood inside drinking neat brandies . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Ed Morrison allowed John Jeffrey to come in from an offside position and ‘ collect ’ a passing movement between two Japanese players while Hayashi was tackled without the ball when a try seemed certain for Japan . |
| 28 | John Turner stepped down as Leader of the Opposition on Feb. 7 , in favour of his Liberal colleague Herb Gray . |
| 29 | Then John Keane came along , the only artist I 've ever taken on from seeing slides . |
| 30 | John Parrott hangs on to the trophy he is determine |