Example sentences of "[noun] of [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other people , more strong-minded than me , use the reverse tactics of promising themselves a reward when they have done something difficult . |
| 2 | British Coal had decided to sell the house for conversion into a hotel to Roo Management , a company run by an Australian businessman who had also bought Holme Lacey in Herefordshire with the intention of making it a hotel . |
| 3 | As usual the ‘ big race ’ will lure the top names and Lisburn Borough Council expect to have in action ‘ 26 miles ’ specialist Peter O'Donoghue of Omega , who had a PB last year and Annadale 's John Walsh … and they are also confident that last year 's winner , Jerry Kiernan of Clonliffe Harriers , will take the starter 's gun with the intention of making it a hat-trick . |
| 4 | Mr Johnson , of Coningsby Drive , Kidderminster , claimed the company had boasted of the success of using saleswomen and never had any intention of offering him a job because he was a man . |
| 5 | I want you , but I have no intention of giving you a plain gold ring or any other ring that could be held against me as a pledge . |
| 6 | As she says : ‘ There seems to be so little appreciation of the potentially devastating emotional effect of finding yourself a victim ’ |
| 7 | He was summoned down on the Saturday evening and his presence at least had the effect of giving its a vignette of Baldwin 's behaviour on the eve of what was likely to be the most testing week of his premiership . |
| 8 | All of us at John Fowler Holidays will be pleased to see you at any time and hope to have the pleasure of giving you a good holiday . |
| 9 | if the Yanks of left it a bit later they 'd of missed all the action |
| 10 | He also paid Cranmer the compliment of making him a Penitentiary for England . |
| 11 | Thigh : The schoolboy trick of giving someone a ‘ dead leg ’ — i.e. kneeing them in the side of the thigh — is very effective and causes great pain but usually no lasting injury . |
| 12 | This has the positive advantage of giving them a broad-based appeal across a diversified range of industries and functions and always having somebody in the team who can potentially suit the chemistry of a particular client . |
| 13 | This has the specific advantage of offering us a series of relatively detailed developmental sequences for individual areas within the plan , but unless such work has been sufficiently systematic , the resulting picture resembles at best an incomplete jigsaw . |
| 14 | HOWARD GAYLE , the former Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers winger , will be training with Wrexham next week in the hope of earning himself a contract . |
| 15 | Andre Agassi ( above ) , equally well known for his sense of decorum , said : ‘ To be honest , it kind of irritated me a little bit . |
| 16 | I never tried to copy those guitar players , but I tried to steal it and kind of change it a little bit . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Tom Jones sang ‘ Unbelievable ’ , I did a rap and kind of gave him a mock blow job at the end . |
| 18 | erm so er tt I think the other thing that 'll be nice if erm er given , if the first years are filling it in er in about a week and a half 's time , if we could if you could try and bash some of the data in fairly rapidly so that , you know kind of before the end of term we can , you know , kind of give them a brief digest of how , what , what the results were |
| 19 | erm you might as well do a bit of a erm you know kind of give it a go and see what happens |
| 20 | I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away . |
| 21 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 22 | The window was slammed down and Broomhead waited , taking the opportunity of rolling himself a cigarette . |
| 23 | I must take the opportunity of saying what a marvellous job I thought both Captains did . |
| 24 | Caroline , poised on the first-floor terrace of her mother 's old town house in Kalkara Creek , in the act of pouring herself a Campari and orange in the midday sunshine , looked up and started to smile politely . |
| 25 | I fear , however , that in my anxiety to win the support of Mrs Clements and the girls , I did not perhaps assess quite as stringently my own limitations ; and although my experience and customary caution in such matters prevented my giving myself more than I could actually carry out , I was perhaps negligent over this question of allowing myself a margin . |
| 26 | You 're sort of getting it a bit more |
| 27 | So i i if you can er give me the background if I ask you to sort of give me a bit of background for the case , I 'll write it up here , and I 'll write down the solutions and see what , see what you 've done . |
| 28 | For my benefit would you just like to sort of give me a quick rattle through as as as to what you intend to do . |
| 29 | Er , er , are you going to sort of give me a timetable that I can read through to the phone and that it 's not booked up |
| 30 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |