Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] he [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't you listen to Woil , 'cos given half a chance he 'll tell you all sorts of nonsense that no eagle should listen to , ’ Kraal said when Woil first started talking like this after Creggan 's arrival . |
| 2 | Shelley smiled back , but she was well aware that he meant it , and that given half a chance he would stay the night . |
| 3 | Not in an evil way at all , but if you gave him half a chance he 'd hammer you into the ground and stamp on you . |
| 4 | If he had bumped into anyone worthy of half a mention he would have told us . |
| 5 | On such a cargo he could easily make himself twenty pounds a week , plus . |
| 6 | In such a case he would be bound to take the woman as he found her , if sued by her , and her pregnancy would be just as much a a physical condition in his victim as would be the case of a person having an eggshell skull . |
| 7 | Dr Marshall says it 's been such a success he 'd like to see his research go up in flames again |
| 8 | Dr Marshall says it 's been such a success he 'd like to see his research go up in flames again |
| 9 | And when Hampson brought the Leeds hooker , Colin Maskill , to the ground with just such a tackle he must have known that the rest of his season would be cut short . |
| 10 | Had the examiner wanted such a discussion he would have asked for it in a separate part of the question . |
| 11 | Yet when Lukowiak looked for such a correlation he could not find it ; it seemed as if control of the strength of the reflex was not vested in any single cell of the abdominal ganglion , but was instead a property of the interactions between the ensemble of cells as a system . |
| 12 | Clarke explained that if Halsbury had won by such a majority he could not have expected elevation to a judgeship . |
| 13 | To be married would be diverting ; she would be free to do as she pleased , and Paul was such a dear he would cause her no anxiety . |
| 14 | If the PRO felt that a number of different editors were interested in such a picture he might decide to take two or three different shots : one perhaps with a child drawing or learning to write , another in an office setting and another in the home with a woman writing a shopping list . |
| 15 | He had not long declared that poetry was a ‘ mug 's game ’ ; and Rupert Doone , not the most accomplished of public speakers , got rather tied up by trying to say that Eliot was not himself a mug and yet somehow implying that , for saying such a thing he must be . |
| 16 | If the postman worked in such a situation he would be insane . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) In granting an occasional permission under this section , which shall be in writing , the licensing board may impose such conditions as it thinks fit including a condition as to the type of alcoholic liquor which may be sold under the permission , and if the person to whom the permission is granted contravenes such a condition he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 18 | For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry , or perhaps only in a hurry . |
| 19 | so it is salutary to be reminded of just how good a composer he could be , how inventive , how much sheer skill he had . |
| 20 | So that every American president is a sort of half breed , a cross between Daniel Boone and Jesus Christ and that however corrupt and venal a politician he might have been before , once he assumes the White House it is assumed that he changes . |
| 21 | For one of so gentle a character he could be extraordinarily defiant of gamekeepers , and threatening letters to my father passed on to him with added threats were not of the slightest avail . |