Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] kind of " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would make me some kind of accessory after the fact , would n't it ? ’ |
| 2 | I think the family managed to find him some kind of posting in a province in the north-west , towards the Land of the Twin Rivers . |
| 3 | It was likely , more than likely , that Alan Markby might buy her some kind of Christmas present . |
| 4 | I told you this kind of mingling always ends in tears . ’ |
| 5 | But the mid-engined layout did give us all kinds of new problems ; rear visibility , thermal and acoustic insulation of the passenger compartment , engine ventilation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Will Resenence Jeopardy give me some kind of knowledge ? |
| 8 | They tend to say , oh well , he 's black so it 's to be expected , they 're bound to do that , so when they give you that kind of attitude , you think oh well , blow them , if that 's what they think , why not act like that . |
| 9 | Never once had he shown him any kind of affection . |
| 10 | Kumi ( 22 ) , said : ‘ Many people have heard and read what happened and have offered us all kinds of help . |
| 11 | ‘ Francis taught me all kinds of stuff from books and talked to me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | for them to give you this kind of service ! |
| 14 | ‘ Pole positions are important to give you some kind of record against your team mate . |
| 15 | And if a journalist able to do you any kind of legitimate favour he or she will certainly feel that you owe him or her one in return ; this debt may be called in when you are least able to be informative . |
| 16 | I mean the point would be to give it that kind of pzazz that the young kids love so much . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | See I sometimes wonder whether it 's not worth giving them some kind of er a proper test . |
| 19 | Now they were talking about giving him some kind of a disablement classification , which stung . |
| 20 | He wrote not to tell her this nor to send her any kind of greeting but because he wanted her to do something for him . |
| 21 | Club members ask me all kinds of health questions . |
| 22 | He sent her all kinds of literature about heart attacks and their prevention . |
| 23 | Freud 's English translators er attempted to Latinize for him , make it more kind of medical , they introduced some ridiculous terms like which is pure gobbledegook and is not found in Freud f er the terms of Freud 's which correspond to those are not er observed Latinisms like that . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , come on , you do n't really think you 're the first man who 's issued me this kind of invitation ? ’ |
| 25 | For dinner they gave me three kinds of meat — a square of beef , a triangle of chicken and a circle of lamb . |
| 26 | Somehow if I could only know what he was doing and who he was seeing , that gave me some kind of control over the situation . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you think that gives you some kind of hold over me ? |
| 28 | So do you any kind of precaution to actua against that kind of thing happening ? |
| 29 | Anna would n't speak of it at all for some time ; later we heard about Simon 's will — he left her various things , his art library for instance ( it 's a wonderful one ) — and it gave her some kind of peace . |
| 30 | But if you 're religiously inclined , then clearly the universe looks a bit different , because the universe has a creator , and having a creator gives it some kind of meaning . |