Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter an employee is rotated through several sections or jobs making them more of a generalist rather than a specialist in one skill . |
| 2 | I thought the dead whiteness of the dress made me more of a corpse than a bride but had n't enough energy to infuriate my mother by telling her so . |
| 3 | ‘ For some reason I hate to lose , ’ said Chang , ‘ and that makes me more of a fighter . |
| 4 | I thought you more of a man than that . ’ |
| 5 | An unexpected piece of good fortune comes your way Saturday in the form of a friend or admirer willing to dig deep to help you out of a problem or into a successful proposition . |
| 6 | But when I looked down , I saw the board was all made of bones and wire ; and I screamed and you said , " Swim — everybody swim " ; and then I was looking for you everywhere and trying to drag you out of a hole in the bank . |
| 7 | Whilst the facilities are simple , it 's certainly not trying to compete with Letraset 's ImageStudio , they are enough to get you out of a hole . |
| 8 | This tip obviously got you out of a tangle Meryl , but have you read about a new and useful low cost knitting accessory which is now available from Jacpacs ? |
| 9 | It takes some sort of public document for people to get you out of a rut . ‘ |
| 10 | I copied it for you out of a book . ’ |
| 11 | He 's just using you instead of a prostitute . |
| 12 | " " You can try , El-ahrairah , and if you succeed I will multiply your people everywhere and no one will be able to keep them out of a vegetable garden from now till the end of the world . |
| 13 | Margaret and her friends collected old clothes , converted them into dusters and sold them out of a suitcase in the Camden market and to old clothes dealers . |
| 14 | SUNDERLAND have signed up Brian Horne to help them out of a goalkeeping fix . |
| 15 | If Walter Smith is going to continue producing them out of a hat from the reserve team like this , Rangers will remain without peer and the rest will have an even greater excuse for abandoning hope before they start . |
| 16 | He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted . |
| 17 | The chances that he will get them out of a mire of their own making are as thin as their performances have been for most of the season . |
| 18 | Clive fished them out of a pocket , and handed them over . |
| 19 | Some of these same men now say the Army is treating them like ‘ dirt ’ and is trying to force them out of a job . |
| 20 | J. was quite capable of staring her straight in the eye and swearing that black was white if it would get me out of a jam . |
| 21 | I 'm bloody glad Albert do n't , he 'll drive me out of a bed . |
| 22 | Exercises 1–3 were designed to get me out of a rut in my playing . |
| 23 | ‘ That would do me out of a job . |
| 24 | But it has n't given him much of a clue about setting up a restaurant . |
| 25 | Not that that promises him much of a life , ’ she added , jutting a doubtful lip , ‘ now he 's getting over his saintliness . |
| 26 | Dexter remembered the name and vintage from a description Blanche had reluctantly given him once of a feast at her old Cambridge college . |
| 27 | Yanto could not recollect ever having seen him out of a boiler suit . |
| 28 | But in 1132 he was back as chancellor , though he never aspired to the influence of his earlier days , and the more sober ecclesiastics of the court , in alliance with the papacy , managed to keep him out of a bishopric . |
| 29 | Well if you sort of leave him out of a conversation , he goes a bit funny , he storms off , I think I had noticed a couple of times that he has , and you see what happens is he sits there |
| 30 | It is simply going to drive him out of a livelihood , and increases the amount of consumer junk left around in lane and layby . |