Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had gone through all the rigmarole of dressing and making up almost on automatic pilot , deriving none of the normal pleasure from the procedure . |
| 2 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |
| 3 | There is no money , the country is in a crisis from which there seems no way out , and anyone who wants hard currency is selling anything of the slightest interest . |
| 4 | And to the possibility of seeing something of the Sicilian town . |
| 5 | He was learning something of the dead man 's background , admittedly from a biased witness , but any policeman knows that all witnesses are biased in some degree . |
| 6 | I can then approach the overseas groups knowing something of the overall picture . |
| 7 | Apprehensively , Robbie clung tightly to the tiller as he closed the gates behind them , his muscular strength making nothing of the massive balance beam which swung the heavy gates to . |
| 8 | Showing none of the great dignity of a Pharaoh , he runs to meet Jacob , embraces him , falls on his neck and kisses him . |
| 9 | The term is certainly helpful , conveying something of the psychological unsettling that can occur , but it does not capture the full extent of what might take place . |