Example sentences of "[noun sg] as a [adj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agnes thought of her clothes and jewellery in such terms , just as she thought of her car as a two-year-old 3-door Chevette ES in Regatta Blue with wing mirrors and two radio aerials . |
| 2 | For the same reasons Trent was unable to visualise Belpan as a future gambling Mecca . |
| 3 | Her importance as a future Queen Consort naturally attracted a great deal of attention in 1980 and through to that summer of 1981 . |
| 4 | Mr Sydney Breeze returned to give a further talk on this subject and to relate many of his experiences during his long career as a top link GWR driver . |
| 5 | His sexy performance as a criminal cowboy JD in Thelma & Louise , the guy who gives Geena Davis her first orgasm and then robs her blind has n't helped much . |
| 6 | She raised her hand as a dubious Herr Nordern forced the car into almost the right gear and drove off with a curious jerking motion , then turned and went into the Centre with a look on her face which boded ill for anyone who crossed her path that day . |
| 7 | A programme of National Certificate Modules is being developed with a view to accreditation as a Level I SVQ . |
| 8 | On his way home to Brest , sailing north-about round Ireland , Jones confirmed his reputation as a maritime Robin Hood by releasing , with a new sail and money in their pockets , some Irish fishermen he had captured , but his arrival back in port , on 8 May 1778 , proved a disappointment , for the French failed to give him the hero 's welcome he had expected . |
| 9 | Years later , I described this now-rare bird as a new species Lophura hatinhensis . |
| 10 | Bowie was last seen on the big screen as a diffident Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese 's The Last Temptation of Christ . |
| 11 | But then , a few days later , Mervyn Stockwood revealed that he had all the time in fact been helping dissident priests in a variety of clandestine ways , still too secret to be fully detailed : not so much a Red Bishop as a clerical Scarlet Pimpernel . |