Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [vb mod] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was for a building which would seat 306 people as well as the choir . |
| 2 | In such a contest everything will hinge on the state of the economy and whether Major and his team are trusted more than Neil Kinnock and his . |
| 3 | A command which will renumber the lines and correct the cross references inside a program . |
| 4 | They are making their way towards its head , preceded by a domestique who will elbow a path through the bikes . |
| 5 | You can not , for instance , turn someone into a surfing champion just because he 's at the seaside , but if it turns out that he has a genuine interest in fishing and some skills as a fisherman you can centre pictures and film on that . |
| 6 | Knowing what the Bushmen knew then — that the NEA was unpopular with conservative legislators and already the target of fundamentalist Christians for subsidising offensive art — they can hardly have seen this as a plum they could hand to a big contributor or a rising political star or , indeed , to anybody aiming to leave town alive . |
| 7 | She could put up with that if it got her to a city , or within reach of a ve-hickle she could scav . |
| 8 | He was n't a man you could cross-question . |
| 9 | And if I can , then it would be a lever you could hand to him . ’ |
| 10 | By 1808 the unpopularity of Godoy had spread beyond these circles to embrace all classes and the revolution prophesied in 1798 was turning against the court that supported his power : a monarchy which could disgrace itself and by its foreign policy plunge Spain into inflation , dear bread , commercial depression , and the loss of the American market must be limited by a constitution . |
| 11 | ass If she starts out a goosegirl she 'll shit on |
| 12 | PRESIDENT REAGAN is weighing up a report which would hand control of the US 's weather and remote-sensing satellites to private enterprise . |
| 13 | Obviously the activity of a pair of adult foxes feeding a family which could number as many as eight cubs has a quite drastic effect on the local rabbit population . |
| 14 | I looked round in history for a fitting symbol for a party which would repesent the individual citizen against the state and the person I alighted on was John Hampden . |