Example sentences of "john [noun prp] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It contributed to the decision of the Unitarian Dr John Estlin to fund the alternative Anti-Slavery Advocate , edited by Webb and beginning publication in 1852 .
3 The problem was that nobody from The Smiths camp was prepared to actually inform the band of this decision , and it was left to Easterhouse manager John Barrett to discover the sad truth almost by accident .
4 She has already walked across Australia and the US , and now plans to walk from Gibraltar to John O'Groats to become the first woman to circumnavigate the world on foot .
5 Nobody wanted John Major to lead the Tory Party in the first place .
6 Then up got John Smith to unveil the Labour leadership 's new tactic .
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