Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [noun] of a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I mean it is your sort of second home , and the guys that you work with every every week , I mean sort of become , I mean it 's a bit of a cliche to say , but I mean part of a family that you living out there that you live with out there and it is a real I mean when you think of the number that was lost , I mean there were a lot of close friends involved in it . |
| 2 | At a great height I catch sight of a colobus . |
| 3 | On my way back to Anastasia , I catch sight of a tree-creeper and watch him flit from tree to tree , scurrying mouse-like up their trunks as though nothing else had ever happened here . |
| 4 | When sleep threatens to take him from me yet another time , I remind Crilly of a line from the film Drugstore Cowboy , in which the heroine says , ‘ You never fuck me and I always have to drive ’ . |
| 5 | I enclose photographs of a silver object found by a friend while digging for leaf-mould in a wood . |
| 6 | I take part of a thesis and I think I mean a lot of it is is very very important in terms of even considering internment , in relation to the whole intelligence problem . |
| 7 | Whenever I take hold of a woman I feel as though my feet are slithering on tufted grass and goat willow . |
| 8 | It 's been three days now I 'm not sure though I could be wrong because I have n't slept very well I have nightmares of a man and they think it 's me but it is n't , is it ? |
| 9 | Yes you know really get that with a bit of er bit of er you know bit of a triumph . |
| 10 | All Ill say is I suggest you get hold of a video of any match he s in , and try and concentrate on him . |
| 11 | ‘ So , if you get wind of a rumour from Salome on , say , Bloggs International , which says that tomorrow they 're going to be taken over on very generous cash terms , then you buy as much Bloggs stock as you can . |
| 12 | Johnson is 50 , Melville is 41 and sometimes as you hear this playground talk about sex you hear echoes of a world ignorant of Aids . |
| 13 | As a new young actor do you find that at Stratford you become part of a house style ? |
| 14 | He had sent one first as a test , for sometimes it does n't do the doors a lot of good , and you find you 've wood of a variety of types and colour — indicating the door was never meant to be seen in the raw . |
| 15 | You own part of a house . |
| 16 | ‘ Just one more thing before we become part of a crowd , Maria , ’ said Luke as the door slid shut and they began to move smoothly upwards . |
| 17 | In the same year , writing of how as good writers ‘ we have not borrowed , we have been quickened , and we become bearers of a tradition ’ , Eliot complains ( before quoting a revoicing of Seneca by Chapman which would be used in ‘ Gerontion ’ ) that in contemporary poetry , ‘ No dead voices speak through the living voice ; no reincarnation , no re-creation . ’ |
| 18 | The answer to that is simply to make sure that we use radiation of a wavelength short enough to be compatible with whatever accuracy we choose to specify . |
| 19 | They make use of a combination of two sensory inputs . |
| 20 | exams/tests are acceptable — if they provide evidence of a candidate 's achievement which is appropriate for the outcome(s) being assessed , |
| 21 | A major feature of these applications is the extent to which they involve overlays of a variety of information drawn from different sources on a topographic map base . |
| 22 | But then , once again , they catch sight of a pair of tall scaly three-toed legs and the dominant cock suddenly acquires a bigger flock of babies . |
| 23 | They seem part of a hierarchy which goes from Valar ( good and bad ) to Maiar ( good and bad ) to Eldar ; they are ‘ like in nature to the Ainur , though less in might and stature ’ , close enough in one case ( Melian and Elwé Thingol ) to intermarry . |
| 24 | Studies as early as 1885 [ Cattell , 1885 ] showed that characters are more easily recognised when they form part of a word than when they do not . |
| 25 | Note first that since they form part of a contract between buyer and seller they are legally enforceable and that in itself is an important advantage because it reduces the cost of enforcing collusion . |
| 26 | The practices associated with harassment are so jealously guarded , not just because they articulate a culture of institutionalized racism within the force , but because they form part of a system ‘ workers ’ control' against the encroachment of line management . |
| 27 | They form part of a Law and Order exhibition which extends to stocks , manacles , handcuffs , and even a giant magnifying glass . |
| 28 | They form part of a range of diseases now more logically termed inherited prion diseases , and a new nomenclature has been proposed . |
| 29 | They form part of a project to quadruple electricity generating capacity to 350,000 million kWh by 2010 . |
| 30 | Bank liabilities are different from other financial intermediaries ' liabilities in that they form part of a nation 's money supply whilst these other institutions must maintain accounts with banks . |