Example sentences of "jack the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At work everyone was talking about the television dramatization of the Jack the Ripper story . |
| 2 | After that , I could have told her that you were Jack the Ripper and she 'd have believed me . |
| 3 | His ‘ insights ’ into human nature are a jumble of cliches , and his novel about a serial killer , Maigret tend un piege ( Maigret Sets a Trap ) , parrots those popular myths on the subject which have obstructed just about every police inquiry since the case of Jack the Ripper . |
| 4 | For the Mau Maus to take up the offering was like asking Jack the Ripper to baby sit . |
| 5 | The mist looked as though it had been created by the BBC special effects department for a studio play about Jack the Ripper , and yards away I could hear voices without being able to see the humans making the sound . |
| 6 | After all , had n't he been consecrated bishop in 1880 , the year of Jack the Ripper ? |
| 7 | ‘ I wonder if it 's that Jack the Ripper , ’ she laughed , and followed Dad out to the shed , leaving me with Liza who had just come in . |
| 8 | Nick dances his very own furious fandango in a suit from Hell 's own tailors , and if a steaming set littered with ‘ Jack The Ripper ’ , ‘ The Good Son ’ and ‘ The Mercy Seat ’ is n't your cup of tea I can only offer my sincerest condolences . |
| 9 | And the new single , ‘ Certain People I Know ’ / ‘ Jack The Ripper ’ , will prove no exception to the rule , coming in a special promo sleeve which , so the Parlophone press office reckons , ‘ Has artwork similar to that which we used to use on T-Rex singles . ’ |
| 10 | As their ‘ Eva Luna ’ album gathers plaudits for its unflinching portrayal of urban life , London 's eclectic revolutionaries take DELE FADELE round the East End to see Jack The Ripper 's old haunts . |
| 11 | And yet , over a century after Jack The Ripper 's grisly murders — so foul that simple descriptions would make you puke — no-one is any the wiser about his identity … |
| 12 | At the penultimate stop , in the midst of Brick Lane , lies the site of one of Jack The Ripper 's most gruesome murders . |
| 13 | Since the murderous excursions of Jack the Ripper in London 's East End some years ago , the patrolling of streets on both sides of the river had been strictly enforced , particularly on foggy nights . |
| 14 | Colin Wilson 's The Outsider , for example , which by a glorious coincidence appeared in May 1956 — the very month of the appearance of John Osborne 's first performed play Look Back in Anger — was a bookish , self-educated exegesis of a fat clutch of heady topics including violence and mysticism , all untidily carved out of a huge , unfinished novel about Jack the Ripper . |
| 15 | Japanese customers are especially plentiful : many sign their letters ‘ Mr Nippon , BSI ’ ( Baker Street Irregular ) ; all ‘ go mad for Jack the Ripper . |
| 16 | After the lecture he answered many questions , some of them pretty informed and which included some on Jack the Ripper which our publicity had mentioned . |
| 17 | ‘ Not even if your intruder turns out to be Jack the Ripper . |
| 18 | After the Zombie 's travels through Victorian London ( where , incidentally , he committed the crimes attributed to Jack the Ripper ) he arrived at the Grange and enlisted the help of Tick , a deformed coachman of evil character ( played by Charles Paris ) . |
| 19 | I had heard rumours that Jack the Ripper was about in the night , but that did n't stop me launching into the fog . |
| 20 | She had been a pirate , a mutant , a murdered whore , Jack the Ripper . |
| 21 | If Jack the Ripper was Daine 's worst , then his Dreams were truly pitiful . |
| 22 | Eleven forty-five , and I strolled into the Jack the Ripper , the roughest and least local of my many locals . |
| 23 | By now it must have been obvious to her host that she had put him down as a direct descendant of Casanova , Don Juan or Jack the Ripper — or possibly a combination of all three . |
| 24 | There you find clues pointing to the identity of the murderer — Jack the Ripper ! |
| 25 | Contrary to the obvious evidence you find , there is also enough clues to suggest that it was n't Jack the Ripper at all . |
| 26 | They were trying to catch Jack the Ripper . |
| 27 | Even the men were frightened of Jack the Ripper . |
| 28 | Blake asked him about Jack the Ripper . |
| 29 | He had become known as Jack the Ripper . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm looking for Jack the Ripper , ’ he said . |