Example sentences of "of [verb] [prep] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those might be , for example , early stages of the retraining of walking in which a subject could still access and change the order of muscle movements . |
| 2 | Beverley Beech from AIMS ( the Association for Improvement in Maternity Services ) believes this success rate is low , and says , ‘ There is a lack of understanding about what a ‘ natural ’ vaginal birth is . |
| 3 | Elf had arranged that Jackie take me around Monaco and the experience — of living through what a grand prix driver lives through every time he races — remains engraved on my mind . |
| 4 | I was a little disappointed with the film ; I would like to have seen it erm more analytical , a little more hard hitting in terms of looking at what a local radio station does . |
| 5 | It 's just sort of looking at 'em a bit . |
| 6 | After a week of caring for them a bond had been formed . |
| 7 | All three were aware that the King and Queen had , after four years of war , come to represent to their subjects all that was best in the domestic and public virtues , and that there had been current for some time an idea of presenting to them a gift as a mark of national respect , thanks and loyalty . |
| 8 | Erm so I may sort of look into it a bit more maybe get a bit more experience |
| 9 | She had suggested to him , although of course not in words , that it would be a good idea to alter their pattern of lovemaking to something a little more adult , but he had moved away : shrunk , dwindled , and moved away . |
| 10 | and then start writing but sort of go over it a bit more , do a lot more talking first before |
| 11 | Between 1945 and 1970 there were five : in 1948–9 into questions of possible bribery of ministers , chaired by Mr Justice Lynskey ; in 1957–8 into leakage of bank rate , chaired by Lord Justice Parker ; in 1959 into allegations of police assault on a boy , chaired by Lord Sorn ; in 1962–3 into a case of spying in which a minister 's moral behaviour might have been involved , chaired by Lord Radcliffe ; and in 1966–7 into the responsibility for the Aberfan disaster , chaired by Lord Justice Edmund Davies . |
| 12 | Erm greeting and appropriate sociability fine , you were a little bit nervous so you tended to sort of talk over me a little bit but that 's not a problem , it probably would n't happen in real life . |
| 13 | The National Council of the League passed a resolution in March 1933 urging the Labour party and TUC to arrange " a meeting with the representatives of the Co-op movement , the ILP and the CP for the purpose of proposing to them a basis for United Action " . |