Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adj] kind of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 2 | If I 'd wanted that kind of wife , I 'd have married Eleanor . ’ |
| 3 | When I went to bed , I had a few ‘ sort of ’ pains , but I did n't think anything of them as I 'd had these kind of niggly pains a lot over the last week or so . |
| 4 | I offered to do any kind of work , teaching , sewing , cleaning , so that I could become independent again . |
| 5 | At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did . |
| 6 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 7 | It was n't the first time she 'd heard that kind of comment . |
| 8 | She seemed to think some kind of explanation was necessary . |
| 9 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 10 | She had not expected to be such a kind of girl ; she had watched this kind of girl for years ( the lips discreetly reddened , the loud laughter on the school bus , the tossing of long hair beneath rakish berets , the swinging of hips , the whispering in the garden ) but she had never expected to become one . |
| 11 | They seemed to take that kind of man to make him sergeant in the beginning after the Police Strike . |
| 12 | When Twoflower said they 'd got better kind of magic in the Empire I thought — I thought … ’ |
| 13 | And I felt that they did need some kind of ongoing support . |
| 14 | They had had this kind of conversation before and it always ended with her frustrated and him defiant . |
| 15 | At one point he grew so angry he failed to blow any kind of a note on his horn ; he dashed it to the ground in a fury of petulance . |
| 16 | Every time he tried to make any kind of serious statement or speech for years thereafter , people came back to the plants . |
| 17 | And this astonished him , because he 'd seen this kind of thing at home . |
| 18 | It was the first time in ages he 'd demonstrated any kind of protectiveness towards her and she could n't help warming to that . |
| 19 | I asked Roger how he managed to establish this kind of control , to reproduce with twenty or more disruptive pupils the semblance of a ‘ model ’ lesson . |
| 20 | Perhaps , though , he might stroll out in the direction of the church hall , to see if people were coming out , then he would feel that he had made some kind of an effort . |
| 21 | He felt he had to make some kind of protest , no matter how feeble . |
| 22 | He wanted to leave now too , but he had to make some kind of contact with the dead man first . |
| 23 | He had expected some kind of tart from Les Halles and found a respectable Jewish matron in an unbecoming colour . |
| 24 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |