Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun prp] or a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's not a flash Harry or a cheat and if he does n't think another year is on the cards he will tell me straight . ’ |
| 2 | Who wants to body bash ? ’ she shouts with her body language , as she looks for her type of guy in the park — a hunky Dobermann or a Rottweiler usually twice her size ! |
| 3 | Actually I am still in two minds about mibbe squeezing in a quick Hughes or a Heaney somehow . |
| 4 | Different degrees of vibration of passing traffic may indicate if it is a small Fiat or a ten-ton lorry ; it will be a more normal situation than watching different-sized vehicles drifting silently by . |
| 5 | One package simulating 40 very different aircraft is perhaps over ambitious , but the flight models are just too similar — sometimes the only way to remember whether you are flying a 747 Boeing or a Harrier jump jet is to use the external view ! |
| 6 | Mulling it over as she strolled along in the morning sunshine , passed occasionally by a battered Renault or a woman on a pushbike with a basket of baguettes swinging from the handlebars , Melissa felt more and more uneasy at her friend 's obvious emotional commitment to Bonard . |
| 7 | Whilst not retracting anything that has been said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person , it has to be said that interpreting certain historical events as the actions of God is the primary way in which a number of religions understand the divine nature . |
| 8 | Harold wants Northumbria for the Godwin family , not an inflated Siward or a Scotia so weak that Norway could step in and settle there . ’ |