Example sentences of "[noun sg] who could [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During World War II , it was the rough-and-ready American GI who could fix the stalled jeep in Normandy while the French regiment only looked on . |
| 2 | In Bobby Collins you had a pocket battleship of an inside-forward who could mix the sacred with the profane . |
| 3 | Clearly , a member of parliament who could take the foul-mouthed uncle William far from the laird of Craigie 's children might legitimately expect the memory of such a favour to persist for an election or two . |
| 4 | The idea was that the few men in the University who could read the original language of the Edda and the Sagas should group together with those who wished to learn , and read their way through the principal texts . |
| 5 | In Stuart Davies and Emyr Lewis we have two forwards in the same mould who could do the same to France one day . |
| 6 | He must be more patient and brace himself up to realise that he was the only person who could tackle the present chaotic state of affairs , ' This was the fourth time the King had told MacDonald that he would not accept his resignation . |
| 7 | Given time , Rollerskate Skinny may well mature into the kind of discipline outfit who could give the American noise set a run for its money . |
| 8 | My mother was a cook who could make the most of three-pennyworth of meat pieces to enrich my father 's vegetables . |
| 9 | A tutor who could command the unhesitating affection and intellectual respect of so miscellaneous a collection of men as Derek Brewer ( later Master of Emmanuel College , Cambridge ) , the drama critic Kenneth Tynan , the publisher Charles Monteith and the poet John Wain was clearly doing his job . |