Object

• horse: From mice to shire horses, goats to guineapigs.

Converse of object

• say: He says the shire and community leaders have met and are unanimously behind welcoming the boat people.

• become: When Argyll became a shire in 1292 Alexander was appointed to rule.

Adjective modifier

• English: Each English shire had to provide the king with a certain number of trained archers per year this was enforced by law.

• rural: The Campaign to Protect Rural England is not convinced there is enough determination from local councils to reduce housebuilding rates in rural shires.

• other: This is as true of Carmarthenshire as any other Welsh shire.

• northern: History DURHAM, COUNTY PALATINE OF, one of the northern shires of England.

• old: In which case their abolition will not necessarily abolish our 1,000 year old shires.

• black: He ended up opposite two huge black shires, which made him look rather smaller than usual.

Modifies a noun

• county: Take up by younger people in shire counties is higher than in cities.

• horse: Also in 1998 Young's shire horses took on the duty of pulling the Lord Mayor's coach at the annual London event.

• district: The shire district of Derbyshire Dales employed 380 people in 2004.

• council: Not content with taking money from shire councils, Labor has sought to take their powers too.

• court: Earls, however, were still entitled to take a third of the proceeds from shire courts.

• town: Monmouth the shire town ] , 137 Parishes & about 6400 Houses.