Example sentences of "john [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , John Christian ( 1756–1828 ) , agriculturist and parliamentarian , was born 12 July 1756 at Ewanrigg , Dearham , Cumberland , the eldest to survive infancy of the sons of John Christian of Ewanrigg and his wife Jane , eldest daughter of Eldred Curwen of Workington Hall . |
| 2 | Shaw settled in Antwerp before the civil war as factor to the great Somerset clothier , John Ashe of Freshford , whose daughter he married . |
| 3 | He married Mary , daughter of John Leithead of Widdrington , in 1804 . |
| 4 | John Cruikshank at Castle Hill House and his ‘ very amiable ’ wife , Anna , were chief among them , and for Coleridge , at least , there were also a number of admiring and musical young women with whom his puns , conundrums , and attempts at dancing made him ‘ an immense favorite ’ . |
| 5 | John Rodda in Las Vegas predicts that Ray Leonard will feel the strain of the advancing years more than his rival in tonight 's big fight |
| 6 | By John Rodda in Las Vegas |
| 7 | By John Rodda in Las Vegas |
| 8 | Leonard keeps more money than friends in a farce of fistic folly John Rodda in Las Vegas on how the battle between two greats ended as a sad stalemate . |
| 9 | Yet , à la mode as the Earl 's effigy might have been , nothing was to have such a profound effect on the sculptural representation of the shroud than that introduced by Nicholas Stone in his standing effigy of Dr John Donne for Old St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 10 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , leading Sussex Catholics , including John Gage of Firle and Richard Shelley of Warninghurst were imprisoned in 1580 for recusancy ; they still continued to pay the heavy taxes and fines demanded of them . |
| 12 | On one extensive gentry estate in the 1560s , that of Sir John Gage at Firle , there were 181 cattle and 1940 sheep . |
| 13 | The relationship flourished following a visit to Moscow by Sun 's Bill Joy and John Gage in October 1990 — Sun was impressed by the levels of reliability and miniaturisation , combined with a close integration of hardware and software that Elvis+ has brought to wireless networking . |
| 14 | Other ministers who have been retained are John Gummer at Agriculture , David Hunt at Wales and Ian Lang at Scotland . |
| 15 | He received an update on the situation from Agriculture Minister John Gummer by phone from Stanstead , where Mr Gummer 's plane had arrived late . |
| 16 | Among the highlights were : Arthur Devis , ‘ John Cotes of Woodcote and his sons in the park at Woodcote ’ , circa 1745 , sold for £80,000 ( $138,480 ) , estimate £80–120,000 . |
| 17 | Lessees included Thomas Lorenge of Cleeve and John Ligon of Beauchamp Court , Worcestershire , each being promised inflated rents of £5 and more per acre for four years . |
| 18 | Allhusen married Anne , daughter of John Shield of Broomhaugh , in 1835 ; they had four sons and two daughters . |
| 19 | John Bader of Guernsey , who made a profit out of selling roses to Labour and then sought to safeguard it by voting Tory . |
| 20 | John Ellis of Hanmer ( a small village just across the Welsh border ) was presented at the manorial court in 1581 ‘ for erecting of one bay of a house upon the lords waste grounde in Myddle woode ’ . |
| 21 | I AM indebted to John Moorey from Portsmouth who has been kind enough to fill me in with some of the details of the extraordinary golfing life of Mary Toogood , nee Johnson , who died earlier this year . |
| 22 | Paul Newing , who formerly worked for John Taylor of Wavesports before the firm went under , has now left Olympus Outdoor World and is working for John 's Peak Trading company in Czechoslovakia . |
| 23 | But their most famous victory , over the black Conservative John Taylor in Cheltenham , was clouded by suggestions of racism , and as our Political Editor Peter Hayes reports it was racism that also overshadowed the first day of the conference . |
| 24 | John Doe of X and Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz are supplying the sound track . |
| 25 | William Lambarde , born in October 1536 , was the son of John Lambarde of London , a man of considerable wealth , who in 1551 , became Sheriff of London . |
| 26 | Plain English text displays are used on the keyphones so that if John Ward in Room 16 calls for room service John Ward 16 is displayed on the keyphone in the kitchen , enabling the call to be answered with ‘ Good evening Mr Ward , may I help you ? ’ |
| 27 | John Wallin in Cheltenham won a two-week holiday in Florida fro two in the prize draw which accompanied the Penguin Month promotion . |
| 28 | On the Sabbath morning of 1st June , 1679 , the blacksmith had a visit from Captain John Nisbet of Hardhill in the parish of Loudoun , who was accompanied by George Woodburn of Loudoun Mains . |
| 29 | Messengers were sent off to sympathetic neighbours , and , amongst them , Hugh Woodburn of Loudoun Mains sent his younger brother , George , to ask John Nisbet of Hardhill to come with all haste . |
| 30 | Stephen Lippard and John Caradonna of Columbia University , New York , working with Michael Crait and Mohinder Singh of the Medical Research Council 's Molecular Biology Laboratory at Cambridge , have shown that cis- DDP can bond to a double stranded chain of DNA as well ( Journal of the American Chemical Society , vol 104 , p 5793 ) . |