Example sentences of "john [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took 29.8 per cent of the first preference votes , Hume took 24.6 per cent and John Taylor did not pass the quota until West was eliminated and he collected his transfers . |
| 2 | There were stories that she had been eaten by wild animals , but John Ward did n't believe it . |
| 3 | From a study of closely-dated deposits on Hadrian 's Wall , John Gillam did not date any of these vessels earlier than c . |
| 4 | Alsys UK general manager John Walker does n't think so . |
| 5 | What John Rennie does not consider is the buying power of the audience to the Royal . |
| 6 | Strongly independent all his life , John Granger did n't let blindness change his lifestyle , and although now in his nineties has only just moved into a sheltered flat in Oxford . |
| 7 | Simpson ( op. cit. ) refers to the tour by Pennant ( 1774 & 1776 ) , but Slack ( 1986 ) makes it clear that Thomas Pennant and his companion the Rev. John Lightfoot did not visit the Outer Hebrides . |
| 8 | The hype surrounding Justin v John Fashanu did not materialise but Justin came on , only to miss from a few yards as Sanchez intervened , leading to his injury and the booking of the Wimbledon physio . |
| 9 | that John Lewis does n't publish its erm most of its charitable giving either and that they done quite a lot |
| 10 | The murderers of John Openshaw did not get the pips , but , in the end , death came to them . |
| 11 | John Biffen did not sign the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion , but he has voted consistently against the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 12 | JOHN PRESCOTT did not go to university , was never a television presenter , and finds it exceedingly difficult to complete a grammatically correct sentence . |
| 13 | Set in the early 1980s , and about liberal politicians cleaning up a small town , it will , Beswick hopes , ‘ do for Little Rock what John Major did n't do for Huntingdon ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ If John Major did n't fancy her before , he must fancy her now . |
| 15 | But Premier John Major did not receive a single vote . |
| 16 | EVEN AT five o'clock in the morning , in the flush of victory and vindication , John Major did not let himself go . |
| 17 | He had been the estate bursar at Oxford , and there was little about farming , estate management , rural development and conservation that John Higgs did not know . |
| 18 | Even the light-hearted efforts of John Newbery did not break this emphasis . |
| 19 | Not all are outstanding golfers , but then 18-handicap Group Captain John Prideaux did n't become Secretary at Muirfield because of his own golfing skill . |
| 20 | John Chaplin did not hesitate . |
| 21 | But John Russell did n't say a word . |
| 22 | John Smith does n't scare people anything like as much . |