Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb mod] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he was lucky he might start a wine bar when he left . |
| 2 | If he was lucky he 'd find a cab there , though at this time of night they were n't frequent . |
| 3 | Everyone at Didcot , myself included , are truly elated about it because we 're in the business of winning , Nigel 's a winner ; if we can provide him with the right technical equipment next year , I 'm sure he 'll win a number of races and indeed his ambition and our objective jointly is to win a driver 's , a world championship driver 's title before he retires . |
| 4 | I 'm sure he could use a man like Sugden . |
| 5 | Peter Bergg , the Liberal Democrat candidate , said he was disappointed that his party should fail to rise above 10pc in the survey but was confident he could win a share of the undecided vote . |
| 6 | And if Punch were ever stuck he would get a cartoon of er one or other of the brothers sitting in parliament knitting . |
| 7 | Sentence on Ballantine , a first offender , was deferred until 12 March for background reports , but Sheriff Donald Booker Millburn said it was possible he would impose a jail sentence . |
| 8 | When the Laird said he preferred Paris , Johnson said there was ‘ not a Frenchman of letters now alive he would cross a sea to visit ’ . |
| 9 | If as a captain he was not authoritarian enough , that was just not his style ; given opposition that were not vastly superior he could lead a team well enough , and chalked up two notable series wins against India and Australia . |
| 10 | Dulcie Howes , who wrote that comment to me , had told the Cape Town critic Denis Hatfield at the time that John would never really be a dancer but that he had ‘ such a remarkable eye for balletic pattern , an imagination so vivid , and such an ear for music in relation to movement ’ that she was certain he would make a choreographer . |
| 11 | Fabia felt it might be a touch cruel to laugh at him again but , feeling certain he would run a mile if she took him seriously , she was a little nonplussed about how to answer him . |