Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. pointed out during the course of argument , there is a difference between saying that ‘ a person is not a statutory tenant ’ and saying that ‘ a person is not a statutory tenant with all the rights to protection such a tenant can possess . ’ |
| 2 | It therefore did everything it could to shipwreck such a process . |
| 3 | The supervising engineers were naturally unhappy and only his promise to catch up — and his reputation to back such a promise — prevented the companies from operating the clauses that allowed them to take over the work and reassign it . |
| 4 | There was no reason why she should after rejecting so many others , he thought , and wondered in the same instant if it would be interesting to court such a woman . |
| 5 | After the match , delighted Welsh skipper David Young insisted : ‘ It was an honour to captain such a bunch of lads . |
| 6 | I 've gone to bed many and many a time — and I was only sixteen — I 've gone to bed many a time and laid on the bed and fell off to sleep before I was undressed because we were on the go the whole time . |