Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] some [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | You take me for some kind of fool , do you ? |
| 2 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 3 | You take me for some kind of arsehole ! |
| 4 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 5 | Surely someone would look at me back — recognize me as some kind of fellow human being ? |
| 6 | Did Quigley see me as some kind of John the Baptist figure ? |
| 7 | It is grotesque to portray me as some sort of blue-eyed optimist . |
| 8 | You flatter me by insisting on seeing me as some sort of Casanova figure . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're using me as some sort of buffer between yourself and your feelings for Claire . |
| 10 | Before this single , the rather distanced American rock press failed to probe deeply into the phenomenon of The Smiths and had constantly referred to them as some kind of wacko gay outfit , English eccentrics playing lightweight rock . |
| 11 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 12 | erm I would suggest that anybody who 's really erm concerned in the way you were can either approach their local Education Authority and ask them for some kind of information on this . |
| 13 | ‘ What the hell did you expect , that I should treat you as some kind of equal ? |
| 14 | Until you enlighten me , and perhaps even after that , I shall regard you as some kind of spirit . ’ |
| 15 | " You think I 'm an opportunist do n't you , latching onto you as some sort of meal-ticket . |
| 16 | I 'm trusting you with some part of the background . |
| 17 | We are a country which is very conscious indeed of history , or let's put it this way , of the past , and the job of the historian is to convert that interest in the past into something which is a little bit more critical , more profound , erm and which will genuinely , I think , provide you with some kind of perspective in which to understand the problems of the present . |
| 18 | But f f f for many people Judy I mean th people will look to you with some degree of er of admiration and maybe some degree of of envy that you do have that strong faith that 's that 's helped you through those times . |
| 19 | Your parents nag you and bribe you ( they call it loving you ) and bash you into some sort of shape that suits them . |
| 20 | I 'll push you into some sort of position where I can overtake and then tow you to a garage . ’ |
| 21 | Are you in some kind of trouble ? |
| 22 | ‘ Are you in some kind of trouble ? |
| 23 | Each time I asked , you fobbed me off , and now you 're suggesting that I should fix my belief in you without some kind of hook to hang it on . |
| 24 | And Prozac did the trick for me , erm it wo n't work for everybody , it 's not a happiness pill , it just restores you to some sort of normality . |
| 25 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 26 | I hope , heaven help me , to bring them into some sort of design and architecture later . |
| 27 | Knowledge Adventure is very good at throwing out nuggets of information , and placing them into some sort of context . |
| 28 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 29 | Because of the mismatch between processor and transput device speeds , we are led to consider uncoupling the devices from direct processor control and providing them with some degree of autonomy . |
| 30 | It will be easy enough to bleach them with some Milk of Magnesia the night before he comes home . |