Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] of [art] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You think Newark 's bad , you ought to see some of the police stations in Nottingham . |
| 2 | eat some of the chips Robert please |
| 3 | The figures actually suggest that of the women compositors employed in 1910 , at least 25 per cent never married . |
| 4 | The illness did , however , convince me to accept another of the points Mrs Hill had made and I decided to apply for social security money . |
| 5 | This upstairs room still holds some of the tailors equipment . |
| 6 | Mr Stark reckons that an emerging generation of academics , disillusioned by the arcane teachings of their forebears , is starting to do just that by tackling many of the dilemmas managers face each day — those which business ethicists have previously side-stepped . |
| 7 | ‘ Ca n't be much left of that bloody town , ’ shouted one of the 3″ mortar team as we watched the bombs falling from the aircraft . |
| 8 | Its withers will never win any of the races Ronnie had been telling himself about , and he is reluctant to return from this long , defeated , dark-thoughted walk to break the bad news or his adventure to his wife and daughters . |
| 9 | Over many years I have visited some of the gardens Andre Gide wrote about in his book the Fruits of the Earth . |
| 10 | I would recite some of the lines Grandad had taught me and sometimes sing songs like ‘ Who Will Buy My Pretty Flowers ’ . |
| 11 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister has made much of the citizens charter and the need for openness in Government . |
| 13 | Whitlock mounted one of the police motorcycles , kick-started it , then slewed it violently in an ungainly one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and took off after the getaway car . |
| 14 | ‘ I read some of the things Jack said about me , and although it is n't exactly something I re-read every night , I suppose I must have been doing something right for him to make these kind comments . |
| 15 | I read some of the reviews Jean-Claude had slipped into the score . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've still got some of the things Sammy painted , ’ said Mrs Flaherty . |
| 17 | Have you opened all of the presents mum ? |
| 18 | It also underpinned some of the Schools Council 's programmes of work in the period 1980 to 1983 , which were more concerned with supporting and developing existing initiatives , taken at the ‘ periphery ’ , than devising new ones from the ‘ centre ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Other people thought it might be a personal thing but I never really believed it until I heard some of the things Taylor has come out with . |
| 20 | Even though caring meant postponing many of the plans Mary and Jim had for their retirement , when her father died , Mary expressed satisfaction about the time spent caring for him . |
| 21 | So when we went through it , Kevin was going to do all of the careers officers in York but did n't need to do Mary because she 's part of the adult team and therefore Jane and Julie will have to sort her . |
| 22 | Another reader brought in the 1960 European Cup semi-final programme between Dundee and Milan to underline one of the connections Dundee manager Bob Shankly had previously been gaffer at Stirling . |
| 23 | His real name is James , or Jim , but he does n't pronounce it too well , " she continued , as the man deftly extracted the thick envelope containing one of the notes Katherine had written for Lee on the day of his departure . |
| 24 | As I 've mentioned/bragged/gloated previously I know two of the leeds youth team who won the Youth FA Cup final against the scum earlier this year at ellamd rd ( And my first venture into Mt . |
| 25 | Rain asked whether he had told Oliver much about his Fleet Street days , and Oliver could name some of the papers Cobalt had worked for . |
| 26 | I told him he could have some of the pills Richard had got me from the chemist yesterday . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , being a Sunday , the department had been closed , but Switchboard had eventually managed to contact one of the Records staff . |
| 28 | The intention in this chapter is to document some of the resources Easton 's policemen and women draw on in accomplishing their work , with a view to demonstrating the similarity in the way they ‘ do ’ ordinary policing compared to what we know of policemen and women in societies without Northern Ireland 's extreme divisions . |
| 29 | I WAS travelling home from work and I saw some of the events posters referred to in a recent Echo article . |
| 30 | Patrick Kelly who 's forty one was also found guilty of attempting to murder one of the police officers who foiled the plot . |