Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We well ca n't you sort of give us an idea of what it 's about , the words and things you know and |
| 2 | Right the idea of this little chat this briefing before we go out and do the er driving assessments next week is just to sort of give you an idea and a and a bit of an inroad into what we 're looking at and what we 'll be doing next week . |
| 3 | To bring a level of order and modesty to Fleck 's life Norwich took the unprecedented step of paying him an allowance of only £29 per week and preserving the remainder of his salary to pay off the debts . |
| 4 | Funny way of looking at it I know but it 's sort of to give you an idea of how how the different ways you can actually do this this mechanism and brings out the er variations . |
| 5 | But there was nothing she could do about it , short of giving him an explanation for the presence of Richard 's car outside her flat . |
| 6 | This initiative , in the event , paid off handsomely , both in terms of profit and in terms of giving us an illusion of independence when one of our consortia , which we shared with the Burmah Oil company , discovered oil in what is now the Ninian field . |
| 7 | Political activities such as party meetings and rallies can be observed and supervised , but there is no way of controlling what an individual listens to on his radio set . |
| 8 | He could he was a brilliant machinist and er oh crikey I 've seen him turn out a a three throw er crankshaft within a couple of days er you know without any precise measuring and and and in fact he just sort of put his roll on on on a on the shaft he was turning and just sort of gave him an idea as to I mean his eye was almost as good as many a bloke 's measur measurement with a rule . |
| 9 | However , I find Turner 's work on the results of such movement into the liminal state to be a very useful way of interpreting what an insider experiences when he moves to the margins of his own domain , and I suspect that many such transformations across fiercely defended boundaries of cultural experience lend the individual the chance to stand aside and reflect on his subjective place in the order of things . |
| 10 | This is a way of showing what an owl 's pellet looks like when it comes out of the bird , and then ‘ dissecting ’ it to show the various bones and other indigestible bits and pieces that pass through the owl 's system . |