Example sentences of "[pers pn] [det] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you know I have been meeting every two weeks with all the staff in the Economic Development Team , and discussing with them each stage of the process . |
| 2 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 3 | My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way . |
| 4 | You want me to go jumping out of Dorniers again at five thousand feet in the dark like last time over Ireland and you try to hand me that kind of bollocks . ’ |
| 5 | Miss O'Keeffe 's work suggests to me that kind of passionate mysticism that clouds the seeing eye with visions false to it , like some sweet drug . |
| 6 | ‘ Are you acting , Sarella , when you give me that look of — whatever it is ? ’ |
| 7 | It seems to me that part of the problem of players complaining about the pressure of the modern game is that they have not attuned themselves properly to what is required . |
| 8 | It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts . |
| 9 | It seems to me that art of all kinds emerges out of deep human needs , needs that can not be met anywhere else . |
| 10 | My doctor tells me that leg of his must still be hurting like the devil . |
| 11 | ‘ Why you sent me that copy of your father 's letter . ’ |
| 12 | Give me that piece of paper you were reading , Axl . |
| 13 | Teacher : [ To an Asian boy ] Could you get me that piece of chalk . |
| 14 | It seems to me that lot of it 's been dominated by various sort of rather obscure sounding Germans . |
| 15 | Oh , go and get me that packet of digestive biscuits |
| 16 | The old men in Beijing may not be sure of how to respond to the tactics that such behaviour makes possible ; certainly , previous governors chose to give them little experience of them , preferring the old , almost hallowed , practice of kowtowing to them . |
| 17 | Edward Miall argued in the 1840s that giving the vote to the working class would give them that sense of citizen responsibility which they were said to lack , and that as a result the middle class would be able to " lead them almost whithersoever they please . " |
| 18 | To Arnold the term philistine implied the idea of something stiff-necked and perverse in its resistance to light — ‘ and therein it specially suits our middle class , who not only do not pursue sweetness and light , but who even prefer to them that sort of machinery of business , chapels , tea-meetings and addresses from Mr Murphy , which makes up the dismal and illiberal life on which I have so often touched ’ . |
| 19 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 20 | Their close contact with individual children or small groups seemed to give them some measure of what children can actually do in a foreign language in a relatively non-threatening way . |
| 21 | I 've done nothing to deserve all your vicious insinuations — neither with Richard , nor with Adam , and if you ca n't bring yourself to believe in me the least you could do would be to grant them some scrap of integrity . ’ |
| 22 | As their final experience before the end of their PGCE year , we hope to inform them fully about the role languages play in industry and even , perhaps , during their Week in industry attachment , give them some idea of how language learning relates to their immediate environment . |
| 23 | According to the theory of universal grammar , children start outlife with a universal grammar or language ‘ blueprint ’ in the mind which gives them some idea of the form that any language will take . |
| 24 | I 've instructed all those you wish to see to be available today , but it would be helpful if I could give them some idea of the order in which you wish to see them . ’ |
| 25 | Now , now that all was lost , lost too was the vanity of the bulging notebook , the diversity of material , the forward-looking pleasure of unpacking my treasures and giving them some kind of independent life . |
| 26 | However , an effort was made to give them some kind of compensation , by extending the provision of the afa ( beans , rice and sugar rations ) beyond the initial emergency period , and offering them free transport and free spectacles . |
| 27 | See I sometimes wonder whether it 's not worth giving them some kind of er a proper test . |
| 28 | The child has behaved itself and you want to reward the child then you er you give them some kind of er a chocolate bar or something , or a handful of Smarties or something . |
| 29 | Given the new licensing laws for teachers I shall give them some experience of the post 16+ area before embarking on the lower school work with which under the former arrangement I would normally have begun . |
| 30 | On the whole , the new families seem to be quite affectionate units and through them some elements of the moral tradition are being handed on . |