Example sentences of "john [noun prp] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inspector John Stonehouse said the two were approached by the burglary victim . |
| 2 | The Labour MP John Stonehouse had a private member 's bill on the subject about to begin its passage through the Commons . |
| 3 | John Little commemorates the 200th anniversary of Dr John Lee |
| 4 | John Rodda enjoys a detailed study of Sydney Wooderson |
| 5 | " The flea " by John Donne dramatises a conventional poetic situation , in which an eager lover tries to dissuade a reluctant partner from her coy attitude to sexual behaviour . |
| 6 | AGRICULTURE Minister John Gummer had an abortive trip to America to be on hand for a vain attempt to resolve differences leading to a settlement on the GATT-trade talks . |
| 7 | Only time will tell if John Gummer has the political clout — or inclination — to throw real weight behind the construction industry as it struggles out of recession . |
| 8 | Even in that period , reactions were not always as bad as these ; in 1618 the water-poet John Taylor had a wonderful Scottish holiday ( having gone there , as a result of a bet with Ben Jonson , without money , so that his account stands as a testimony to the generosity of the Scots ) . |
| 9 | In The Carriers ' Cosmographie of 1637 John Taylor named the usual lodgings of provincial carriers in London , together with their times of arrival and departure . |
| 10 | AN ATTEMPT by Mr John Taylor to become the first black Tory MP failed last night when the Liberal Democrats overturned a 4,896 Conservative majority to win Cheltenham . |
| 11 | Back on the white(ish) stuff , John Welford made the second ascent of Simon Nadin 's 1987 testpiece Gonads giving it F8a+ , and then red-pointed Out of my Tree at Raven Tor as a warm down . |
| 12 | Teesside TEC chief executive John Howell said the new centre aims to give help on three fronts business plans , marketing and technology . |
| 13 | John Cresswell said the Labour group had chosen to pay for repairs on homes in Cockerton when the funding should have been more widely distributed . |
| 14 | Top seed John Mills set a blistering pace with scores of 221 and 254 to record the highest game and series of the day . |
| 15 | John King makes a late shuffle after Neil McNab goes down with a stomach upset . |
| 16 | John Allan have a vast range of tanks and hoods ; simple plastic fishbowls and tanks made adequate back-ups and hospital tanks are OK for smaller tropicals . |
| 17 | After approaching the St Vincent government , a price was agreed and John Caldwell embraced a 99-year lease on the island . |
| 18 | National Power chief executive John Baker got a 157 per cent increase that lifted his salary from £147,194 to £383,935 . |
| 19 | After the interval , United hit back to net through Kevin Duff , Dave Snellgrove and Noel Johnson but a sixth goal from John Baker clinched a thrilling 6-3 victory . |
| 20 | Drummond also , presumably , was not averse to the larger salary which was attached to the superior rank , and his tenderness did not stop him from making the journey to Perth to vote for Argyll 's candidate , when John Murray carried the crucial vote for preses of the Michaelmas head court by a single vote . |
| 21 | Plymouth reader JOHN RUNDLE offers a step-by-step guide to breeding Neon Tetras . |
| 22 | The Thames in London became so opaque and smelly as to be a national scandal , especially when in 1849 and then in 1854 John Snow showed the statistical connection between drinking dirty water and catching cholera . |
| 23 | John Steer struck an unbeaten 24 to guide Oswestry fourths to a two-wicket win against British Sugar in the reserve division four . |
| 24 | John Bayley provides an interesting instance . |
| 25 | At twenty John Tawell made an important friend in Walter Hunton , a wealthy linen draper from London . |
| 26 | General Sir John Ligonier described the post-Culloden operations in Scotland as ‘ the disagreeable hunting of those wild beasts ’ , and one civilian address of thanks to Cumberland referred to his vanquished foes as ‘ wolves and tygers … mountain savages ’ . |
| 27 | JOHN WRIGHT hit an unbeaten 38 to became the first New Zealander to score 5,000 Test runs as he steered the Kiwis towards a draw against Sri Lanka in Colombo yesterday . |
| 28 | John Cornforth got the first … six minutes later Andy Legg made it two nil … |
| 29 | John Cornforth notes a similar discrepancy in painting , where the outsides of houses , particularly in relation to their setting , are frequently recorded , their interiors rarely so . |
| 30 | In 1974 , John Michell produced a detailed study of alignments in West Penwith , Cornwall , supported by extensive fieldwork . |