Converse of object

• become: On his return he became a supervisory foreman at the King's Cross Goods Yard.

• ask: I asked the foreman: ' Are these men skilled?

• make: On his return to East Tilbury he was made foreman of Department 407 which position he holds at the present time.

• have: I worked with them, and they had an Italian foreman called Carlo.

Adjective modifier

• general: I was young but he took a chance and put me on as general foreman, my father's job.

• new: And we are lucky to have our new foreman in Iain Duncan Smith.

Modifies a noun

• builder: He had asked the foreman builder if he could get me a job, which he did.

• grill: However, give him a george foreman grill and some steak, and he's the master!

Noun used with modifier

• george: With george foreman he won this which is featuring their salsa gets.

• ranch: The film then cuts sharply to a sterile mortuary and the rough face of ranch foreman Pete Perkins ( Tommy Lee Jones ).

• jury: The court clerk will ask the jury foreman for the verdict.

• yard: He was the son of yard foreman W Harvey.

• farm: In 1924, Mr Ivan Palmer, a farm foreman from near Bury St Edmunds, became licensee.

• shop: Calf in the mash house, poet in the kitchens Machine shop foreman in an artists ' studio.

Possessives

• office: A typical example is the foreman's office partitioned out of warehouse or workshop accommodation.

Preposition: in

• charge: Weil's disease G was a foreman in charge of works by the side of a London canal.

Preposition: of

• jury: The jury were kept waiting for a quarter of an hour pending the arrival of the foreman of the jury.

• department: He made further progress during the same year when he was made chief foreman of the assembly departments.

• work: These houses were built by the Lundy Granite Company in the 1860s for the company surgeon, the engineer and the foreman of works.

• gang: He was the foreman of a road gang repairing the footpath outside our house.