Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Look , ’ he sighed , ‘ I gave that sort of thing up a while back . |
2 | Dollar interest rates cracked the price of gold down a dozen years ago when they were hoisted to 20 per cent . |
3 | The eight-man team train by hauling a barrel of concrete up a telegraph pole using a pulley system — and then digging in and holding the 810 kilo load aloft for up to half an hour . |
4 | There was the celebratory dinner on coming out of the line near Cassino , when Captain Sir Hugh Arbuthnot slung a full bottle of wine down a long table at Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Makins , to whom he had developed a sudden antipathy . |
5 | One is she 's very interested in the occult , erm , she actually practices tarot card readings , and what she calls the crystal oracle , and she gave me a brief explanation , which is throwing a load of rocks up a cloth er , but I 'm not going to push me |