Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , that looks an impractical kind of position to us in the United States , but what 's always puzzled me is how you English do n't seem to share the view of the French . |
| 2 | Because er there 's too much , because they did n't like the way things were run , something like that and on occasions we have had to say to people , we 're sorry , we just do n't think you 're the right kind of person for us . |
| 3 | Because what I 'd like to do is give people a view as to how they can best formulate their letters to you to get the right kind of reply from you . |
| 4 | The club was just the right kind of venue for them to cut their professional teeth on , and she was glad to give them the opportunity . |
| 5 | He managed to establish a strange kind of relationship with them . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's a strange kind of jealousy about us that 's got around , ’ reckons Rikky . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's a strange kind of jealousy about us that 's got around , ’ reckons Rikky . |
| 8 | Graham realised that indeed there was a strong smell of cologne from her . |
| 9 | I walk into the terminal thinking , Well , at least there is n't that smell of sewage around you sometimes get when you arrive in dear old Embra ; I 'm not sure I could handle that right now . |
| 10 | Though it would n't make the least bit of difference to her what way he looked , she would not let the occasion pass without punishing him sharply for still being alive . |
| 11 | A ‘ guardian ’ was a distinctly posh kind of relationship for me to have with anyone . |
| 12 | ‘ You got me all wrong , Malamute , ’ SHe said , ‘ I do n't need that kind of support from you . |
| 13 | You do n't get that kind of behaviour from me . ’ |
| 14 | Not that that in itself was a bad thing , she acknowledged — but she bitterly resented the fact that he , Adam Burns , should have that kind of influence over her . |
| 15 | yes I mean , can you think of any , I mean , putting that kind of interpretation on it , can you think of anything else other than cardboard collecting . |
| 16 | I knew this had been a place of elegance , had been sanctified in literature , but it was not that kind of place to me . |
| 17 | So , so there 's that , there 's that kind of incentive behind it and , and , and , and that normal yield is , is gon na operate for three years , if there are improvements we 're still gon na keep that the normal yield tax based exactly the same . |
| 18 | It was humiliating , and she had not expected that kind of reaction from him . |
| 19 | Even her father could n't exert that kind of power over her . |
| 20 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 21 | Across that fold of land behind him come two sporty types in joggers . |
| 22 | It was hard to believe that a few moments earlier he 'd aroused that snake-pit of desire inside her . |
| 23 | He 'd come his whack and there was this trail of spunk behind him all over the floor . |
| 24 | Here Thomas Carnan obtained some freedom of exercise for him . |
| 25 | He made some measure of pass at me . |
| 26 | To use an artificial lure to catch a hand-reared fish in a man-made lake seems a funny kind of sport to me . |
| 27 | The free play of air around him defined and set the limits of his body in a way that he had completely forgotten . |
| 28 | He slammed a huge fist into his large stomach and she laughed merrily , obediently accepting his ceremonial presentation of the soup , and watching wide-eyed while he poured a generous measure of Campari into it . |
| 29 | For the first time in over sixteen years , Elaine showed some signs of interest in him ! |
| 30 | However , the Dragons have not scored in nearly 12 hours of football without him , taking just one point from the last eight games to sink back into the bottom three . |