Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other males appear to be able to tell when females are near to laying , and try their best to seduce them using prolonged bouts of song and courtship display : sometimes they succeed and the female allows a strange male to mate with her . |
| 2 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 3 | She do n't pay me got another pack of peanuts so I have got a few that few , but you do n't need any old bag do you ? |
| 4 | However , larger companies like Ford have also woken up to the fact that it could help them build small runs of specialist cars — the Ford RS200 for example — cheaply and quickly , which gave the movement momentum . |
| 5 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 6 | This underlying biologism allows them to preserve traditional concepts of gender . |
| 7 | Everyone has some kind of world view . |
| 8 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 9 | If any House of the Dead notebooks had survived I would expect them to contain sudden leaps of discovery and creative arrivals like ‘ Most important — it 's a chronicle 'and |
| 10 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 11 | Many of the disciplines of contemplation have been designed precisely to wean the mind and head away from these earth-bound modes of perception to help them to discover another kind of experience , which they call ‘ spiritual ’ . |
| 12 | Durham County may stand on the threshold of a magnificent new era but it is difficult to imagine them matching that sort of fixture . |
| 13 | Shall I make another pot of tea . |
| 14 | And did n't I make some sort of arrangement to meet somebody ? |
| 15 | More or less what I asked personal point of view that er one is afraid that Europe , as it is , is rather limited . |
| 16 | As I do this , I introduce new sticks of colours . |
| 17 | As I do this , I introduce new sticks of colours . |
| 18 | I made a hand winch with a double handle and a ratchet and room for half a kilometre of twine on the drum ; I made different types of tails for the kites that needed them , and dozens of kites large and small , some stunters . |
| 19 | Ha well if he ca n't do , if he ca n't bring nothing that man , which I 'm sure he will I shall go and buy something , I mean that thing of Scott 's wo n't be any good without the appropriate thing will it ? |
| 20 | Oh yeah and I mean that sort of size |
| 21 | I mean that sort of thing does n't help it right . |
| 22 | There is reason , I mean that sort of thing |
| 23 | Yes , I mean that sort of action , of course they can take , and I think you 're referring to the letter that was in the article that Suzy Orbath wrote erm a couple of weeks ago in the Guardian . |
| 24 | They played I mean all sorts of games that we played they do n't play today . |
| 25 | so , do n't worry about bad language , I mean any sort of dialect you know , just forget it 's there |
| 26 | Well I mean any sort of food or anything . |
| 27 | I eat tremendous amounts of bread and jam and bowls of cornflakes with cold milk — delicious ! |
| 28 | My diary records such incidents as , ‘ Had to eat another roll at breakfast , much to my disgust ’ , or ‘ M. insisted that I eat another piece of toast , so I walked out in disgust . ’ |
| 29 | As Wimpol becomes increasingly international in technology and operations I intend that interchange of personnel of all disciplines will increase between the regional bases of USA , UK and Singapore . |
| 30 | If you look at the News item regarding Hoof Branding in the September issue you will see that I recommended any form of security marking and that hoof branding was suggested as an alternative to freezebranding for those who choose not to freezebrand their horses . |