Example sentences of "john [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To John 's friend 's garage , John conveyed the car . |
| 2 | King John sold the marriages of such heiresses to the highest bidder . |
| 3 | John produced the remains of a bottle of whisky and they all had a dram to celebrate . |
| 4 | John checked the speed again , just over half a knot . |
| 5 | In a Practice Note in April 1983 ( [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 1055 ) Sir John recommended the submission shortly before the hearing of the appeal of ‘ skeleton arguments ’ by counsel for the parties . |
| 6 | John got the ticket in a bucket shop the day after he came back from China . |
| 7 | As Ted 's star began to wane , John became the Palace 's leading scorer , to set them on the way to higher things and immediately topped our scoring chart again in our first season in Division Two , 1921–22 . |
| 8 | Thus John used the term that was mean meaningful to both Jews and Gentiles with God . |
| 9 | John inspected the instruments along the top of the hatch cover , the speed was now three knots . |
| 10 | With the help of his father , John built the Nautilus , 38ft long and one of the earliest boats to be driven by a screw propeller , and it outpaced all the steamers which followed the University Boat Race between Putney and Mortlake , which by then had become an annual event in the spring of each year . |
| 11 | John entered the family printing business and learned the art of printing from his father , who owned a prosperous printing firm in the New Market in Liverpool . |
| 12 | John mentioned the Burnsall dispute . |
| 13 | Steve , the barman , was polishing a glass as John approached the bar . |
| 14 | It so happened that when John approached the manager and his wife they had only just been moved to the pub with the brief to try and improve relations between the pub and the local community . |
| 15 | When scrum-half John moved the ball , he burrowed his way over to open the scoring in the 15th minute . |
| 16 | John moved the rock / The rock moved . |
| 17 | Therefore given the sentence ‘ John found the dog ’ , a parse may be used to determine the subject and object of the verb and thereby create a semantic representation of who found what . |
| 18 | In a single sentence , Pope John provided the Council with a method and commentators with material that could last a lifetime . |
| 19 | John provided the Plaza management with two different lines of Girls with no particular style , then he hit upon the idea of creating a line of tall Girls with long legs . |
| 20 | We never had any arguments and we could all contribute some experience that each of us had had , ’ John told the Herald . |
| 21 | John told the paper : ‘ I feel strong and I 'm coping quite well . ’ |
| 22 | For successful anaphor resolution , it is important to co-ordinate the contributions of system components embodying different types of linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge , such as configurational constraints in ( ‘ He examined him ’ , the two pronouns can not co-refer ) , sortal restrictions ( in ‘ She drank it ’ , ‘ it ’ must refer to some liquid if ‘ drank ’ is interpreted literally ) , focusing ( as in ‘ He examined its legs ’ above ) , and reasoning ( as in the second sentence of ‘ John told the waiter he had no money . |
| 23 | John received the support of Innocent against the Magna Carta which the pope annulled in August 1215 , suspending Langton and summoning him as a participant to answer at Rome . |
| 24 | Pacem in Terris was also original in noting three features of the modern world in which John believed the influence of the Holy Spirit could be discerned : ‘ the progressive improvement in the social conditions of working people who insist on being treated as human beings ’ ( 40 ) ; the part played by women in political life and the fact that ‘ women are gaining an increasing awareness of their natural dignity ’ ( 41 ) ; and the ending of imperialism . |
| 25 | King John forbade the clergy to enact any new decree on the subject . |
| 26 | John ignored the heat building up under his hands and pressed down with all his weight . |
| 27 | Taking the meaning of open in 73b as basic , we can paraphrase 73c ( not exactly , but quite closely ) as ‘ the door came to be open ’ , and 73d as ‘ John caused the door to come to be open . ’ |
| 28 | In the presence of an overt direct object , hide and conceal are cognitive synonyms — John hid the money is equivalent to John concealed the money but hide is not replaceable by conceal in , for instance , Go and hide ! |
| 29 | He removed a lot of the stones , and then John poured the stones he made him |
| 30 | John repaired the lorry . |