Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew very little about boats , and had hated what little experience of sailing I had had , but it seemed unlikely that any boat would shut down its engine until it was safely round into the bay , or even then . |
| 2 | On losing to a late goal he added : ‘ We just did n't get that bit of fortune you need — perhaps we 'll have it in May at Wembley instead . ’ |
| 3 | Oh you know that bit of cheese we got from Superkey ? |
| 4 | I give Jim that bit of cheese he said where do you find this ? |
| 5 | ‘ It 's about that bit of paper you gave me . |
| 6 | The hierarchical kind of organization we call bureaucracy did not emerge accidentally . |
| 7 | Behind the specific accounts of meaning we offer in this book lies the general theory of Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1974 ) . |
| 8 | And what the other bit of information you got any odd snippets of information you 've got written down there . |
| 9 | With his usual presence of mind he nipped back and picked up Sheldukher 's hard copy map of the planet . |
| 10 | As a result of that contract of course you have some rights er but the shop have some rights as well . |
| 11 | And , with each scrap of information I unearthed about Tom Tunney , I seemed to forget something about myself . |
| 12 | Lastly , one other strange bit of feedback we had after attending was that our presence was seen to indicate our ‘ seriousness ’ as a production company — some sort of trial by ordeal . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's quite a departure from the usual kind of thin– you do . |
| 14 | Well this is kind of like a sideline for us , the Game Genie Video Enhancer in not the normal kind of thing we do . |
| 15 | If I keep on playing like that kind of tennis I have a chance of winning the tournament . |
| 16 | It 's very hard to spend months in the archives , reading the papers of the people who spent so much of their lives fighting for this kind of thing , and not I think be rather affected by dedication and by the evidence that they amassed with such enormous difficulty , and by the way they kept coming back and fighting for it over and over again , and the free market argument by comparison lacks that kind of humanity I think . |
| 17 | Well just that kind of person I suppose . |
| 18 | That kind of emptiness he associated with cities . |
| 19 | I think he 's just portraying the situation as it was , kind of sparring of each other , playing games with each other , you know that kind of fits it does n't it ? |
| 20 | Yeah that kind of thing I mean how was that wen you first |
| 21 | So what are , yeah but , if to get that level of service you 've got to threaten somebody |
| 22 | What about the eight packets of crisps you 've had ? |
| 23 | there 's that piece of bread you left look |
| 24 | That piece of toast you grab in the morning while trying to tidy the kitchen and brush your hair at the same time . |
| 25 | Where did I , where did I put that piece of paper I had ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And I 'll remember , as well , those strange fragments of memory I had when we arrived , because they certainly were n't anything from my memory . |
| 28 | bloody packets of blood you know what oh , and it 's ten percent of |
| 29 | I flew over copies of that photograph of Tweed you gave me , ’ Morgan reported as he drove the Daimler beyond Exeter towards Dartmoor . |
| 30 | Biggest damn piece of architecture I 've ever seen . |