Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking of Lee made him remember Uncle Walter 's medals that he still had in his pocket . |
| 2 | For example , a reduction in the cost of grinding and polishing plate glass was made possible by the float process , but it took a long time and a great deal of money to make it work . |
| 3 | When they meet one another , they gingerly caress each other 's long legs and only after a great deal of hesitation do they come to closer quarters . |
| 4 | However the evidence suggests ( see pages 75–6 ) that it is more likely that this decision was reached at a later date , when the force of events made it seem imperative . |
| 5 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 6 | This loss of influence made it fear the nationalists more . |
| 7 | ‘ What piece of land do you want ? ’ asked Jacques . |
| 8 | As a chairman , I did n't have to worry about finding a particular part to put in a piece of kit to make it work . |
| 9 | okay , the two filled in , one would be pensionable , one would be insurance , okay , what other in , piece of paper do I need ? |
| 10 | But he did not know himself what it was and the impossibility of explaining made him turn his head at last and look across at the bright , rectangular picture Doyle was holding out . |
| 11 | Steve Hagger , a director , says the mounting list of creditors can be blamed on the fact Brandmakers was victim of a fraud being perpetrated on companies in search of cash to help them ride the recession . |
| 12 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 13 | These are all responses which were highly suitable in prehistoric times when events required either that you ran away as fast as you could or that you had a surge of energy to help you fight your way out of a difficult situation as ferociously as possible ( fight or flight behaviour ) . |
| 14 | In Jazz , the complex web of language makes you work just a little too hard , undermining the suspense and revelation that made Beloved so mesmerising and — in the process — losing the reader somewhere down its silken , snaking paths . |
| 15 | ‘ From which part of England do you come , Mr Arkwright ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ What part of England did you know ? ’ |
| 17 | Ten to one , the Prince of Wales saw him do it , ’ pointing at Auguste . |
| 18 | Er so any clarification you can give about er er Mr er with Mr Potter 's comment that we would have to wait and see each one on its circumstances when we talking earlier about the industrial change of use makes me twitch , because it 's lack of precision which all of us are trying to eliminate as much as we can in this process . |
| 19 | What level of credulity do you need to swallow all that ? |
| 20 | His head was drenched in a moment , but he stayed there until a flash of lightning made him withdraw . |
| 21 | All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction . |
| 22 | Polo 's ‘ hole ’ selling started when they did a consumer survey asking : ‘ Which bit of mint do you like the best ? ’ |
| 23 | What erm what kind of education did you go to when you ? |
| 24 | What kind of person did he think she was ? |
| 25 | What kind of curtains did you have ? |
| 26 | What kind of well what kind of noise do you mean ? |
| 27 | What kind of fool do you think me , not to know what 's closest to your heart ? ’ |
| 28 | What kind of society did he envisage , beyond some rather vacuous generalities ? |
| 29 | Surprisingly , he can hold a tune live , but what kind of tune does he choose to hold ? |
| 30 | What kind of computer does he want ? |