Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] some kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | I flinch , and Rachel starts up from the floor as I begin stumbling through some kind of introduction . |
| 2 | ‘ If you 're looking for some kind of … counselling , ’ says Riva , ‘ I 'll ask my father if he knows of anyone who … ’ |
| 3 | I tore along the beach like a maniac , looking for some kind of boat I could borrow to get away . |
| 4 | It was this disappearance that really roused my suspicion , and started me searching for some kind of pattern to make sense of these changes . |
| 5 | Economic prosperity and satisfaction led many , perhaps , to look rather benignly upon Hallstein 's activist Commission and not to be unduly worried by the possibility of it developing into some kind of European government . |
| 6 | Or were we tapping into some kind of general biochemical mechanism relevant to all types of learning ? |
| 7 | She needed strength : her and Bernard 's nightly love play would go on for hours , limbs lurching and surging in some kind of gladiatorial combat as if the one who weakened first lost . |
| 8 | EP : Last time I saw you we felt that we should be looking at some kind of school with weekly boarding . |
| 9 | Will that continue to be the case , or are we looking at some kind of block grant formula here ? |
| 10 | Erm so erm what we 've got then is is the the idea of ah looking at some kind of behavioural analysis , although I 'll got into behavioural analysis in just a few minutes . |
| 11 | She realised he must be going through some kind of hell waiting for the rime when he could let all his suppressed urges out . |
| 12 | An uncomfortable pause while he sat forward on the sofa holding his coffee cup in both hands and gazing into it as if he was waiting for some kind of chemical reaction . |
| 13 | They have tended to have fierce debates leading to some kind of resolution . ’ |
| 14 | I began to wonder whether or not I had been the victim of an extended delusion , which was perhaps the function of an overheated adolescence leading to some kind of psycho-hormonal explosion . |
| 15 | His assembled staff stared stonily back , as he looked round at them , apparently calling for some kind of congratulations . |
| 16 | The DES has made the idea of a national framework more widely acceptable , and , as we shall show , is moving towards some kind of national prescription . |
| 17 | There are the problems in Yugoslavia and in the Soviet Union , where a federation is moving towards some kind of commonwealth of independent states . |
| 18 | The most commonly prescribed drugs were hypnotics to make young children sleep and anti-depressants for treating bedwetting , plus tranquillizers for teenagers suffering from some kind of psychological disturbance . |
| 19 | The man stared at her in stunned silence , his chest rising and falling with some kind of agitation . |
| 20 | In any case , by 314 , a century or so later , there were three British bishops at the Council of Arles , attesting to some kind of organised congregation . |
| 21 | Touch legering means , quite simply , that you hold the line and feel for bites instead of relying on some kind of visual indication . |
| 22 | She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’ |
| 23 | She paused , as though hoping for some kind of contradiction . |
| 24 | Rainbow , looking towards my mirror as if hoping for some kind of guidance , is pulled backwards through the kitchen door . |
| 25 | Savage , whose injury was so bad he is unable to play at non-League level , is hoping for some kind of runout at Burnden Park on November 17 when Bolton face Manchester City in a joint benefit match for him and Frank Worthington . |
| 26 | Savage , whose injury was so bad he is unable to play at non-League level , is hoping for some kind of runout at Burnden Park on November 17 when Bolton face Manchester City in a joint benefit match for him and Frank Worthington . |
| 27 | Greg was working on some kind of deal in Italy not long before he … before the accident . |