Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was standing straight , looking in his direction but seemingly through him , and the strange look on her face brought him around fully , and he was about to speak , not with the intention of giving her the true version of why he wanted to volunteer , for it was n't in him to hurt her to that extent , but she turned from him and , quietly opening the door , went out . |
| 2 | I want you , but I have no intention of giving you a plain gold ring or any other ring that could be held against me as a pledge . |
| 3 | All of us at John Fowler Holidays will be pleased to see you at any time and hope to have the pleasure of giving you a good holiday . |
| 4 | This has the positive advantage of giving them a broad-based appeal across a diversified range of industries and functions and always having somebody in the team who can potentially suit the chemistry of a particular client . |
| 5 | It is a painless way to travel with the unrivalled advantage of giving you an extra day 's skiing at each end of a week 's holiday . |
| 6 | Andre Agassi ( above ) , equally well known for his sense of decorum , said : ‘ To be honest , it kind of irritated me a little bit . |
| 7 | I never tried to copy those guitar players , but I tried to steal it and kind of change it a little bit . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Tom Jones sang ‘ Unbelievable ’ , I did a rap and kind of gave him a mock blow job at the end . |
| 9 | erm so er tt I think the other thing that 'll be nice if erm er given , if the first years are filling it in er in about a week and a half 's time , if we could if you could try and bash some of the data in fairly rapidly so that , you know kind of before the end of term we can , you know , kind of give them a brief digest of how , what , what the results were |
| 10 | I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away . |
| 11 | Nearly fifty years later Magdalen did me the signal honour of electing me an Honorary Fellow . |
| 12 | For my benefit would you just like to sort of give me a quick rattle through as as as to what you intend to do . |
| 13 | and er obviously I want to sort of give you the best possible price |
| 14 | No , I 'd have to sort of wash it a little bit so I |
| 15 | she sort of gave me an odd look |
| 16 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 17 | You know , sort of give it a good chance . |
| 18 | And she has entrusted the musical Midases who have turned all she has touched so far to gold with the job of making her a new Garland . |
| 19 | The developers , Calera , have priced FAXgrabber at £99 with the aim of making it a mass market product . |
| 20 | Laverne did me a great service of showing me a few of the local species . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Why on earth do you think Syl went to all the trouble of making her a separate kitchen ? ’ |
| 22 | The thought of facing her the next day was quite terrifying , but not an obligation Meryl intended to shirk . |
| 23 | We intend shifting our locality tomorrow morning ; we are going into South port 15 miles distance from this , ( nearer home ) this move is principally on my account for the purpose of affording me a new locality for my rambles . |
| 24 | " The extension of majority voting will be examined … together with the possibility of making it the general rule with a limited number of exceptions . " |
| 25 | I do n't think Irina gave up the idea of finding me a suitable partner , until Bill died . |
| 26 | There was also disagreement over the proposal to improve benefits and entitlements for part-time workers , and the Commission was forced in June 1990 to postpone the idea of offering them the same rights , on a pro-rata basis , as their full-time counterparts . |