Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun sg] he could " in BNC.

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1 No , no the shop could use it then as a as a loss leader he could make say , a penny on it an ge so if he buys it at , you 're buying what , thirty five ?
2 He gives me the address of a boarding house he could stay at in Earls Court .
3 Some soup or little homemade cakes , convinced that as a grass widower he could n't cope .
4 Under the old system , if a player was dissatisfied with his terms at a League club he could move to a Southern League team at the end of a season without waiting for a fee to be agreed .
5 As a freelance journalist he could report them because just enough editors were just sufficiently interested to pay him just enough for doing so .
6 He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea .
7 Communism had been his religion , the romantic , revolutionary communism of 1917 and Petrograd and the streets full of soldiers and sailors and workers and red flags and armoured cars that looked as if they were made of galvanised steel buckets , and the cruiser Aurora out on the river with its searchlight blazing — now there was a fairground panel he could have painted if only he could have got away with it — but it was n't the same any more .
8 Marcos had arranged the hand-out as a PR gesture he could easily afford , since he largely owned the pharmaceutical companies .
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