Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Students are often uncertain whether they are taking the right kind of notes to help them survive and succeed at college . |
| 3 | Wh what , what sort of hours did you work when you were at did they , did they change |
| 4 | Joe calls and he 's like , ‘ What kind of car do you want while you 're here ? ’ |
| 5 | What sort of work did you try and get when you came ? |
| 6 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 7 | How do they , what sort of aura do they get that they know that they 're going into a fit ? |
| 8 | It took a long talk from one of the Sisters of Charity to make him realise that God had given him the gift of his voice and he was to use his gift with religion to help these people . |
| 9 | you know because some people claim not to , blind and sighted , er you know and then , then maybe you can sort of say well , you know , what sort of things do you see , what sort of things do you feel and then get on to something specific |
| 10 | What sort of things do you play when you practise ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What erm what kind of employment did you find when you came back from the war ? |
| 13 | Jimmy was silent for a moment , then he said , ‘ What sort of thing did you mean when you asked if I was suffering any after-effects ? ’ |
| 14 | And if that is so , then I revert to the considerations already stated which as a matter of construction make me think that it did so legislate . |