Example sentences of "of a [noun] [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had intended to go on and become a teacher , but when Dad died of a heart attack I was needed to help run the family art gallery . ’ |
| 2 | The description ‘ Big , Black but Slim ’ could be misconstrued but as dedicated readers of a computer magazine I 'm sure you 'll realise that I 'm talking about the keyboard ! |
| 3 | It 's the number of a steam engine I 've got . |
| 4 | ‘ If this is not direct political control of a broadcasting network I do not know what is , ’ he said . |
| 5 | So unless you come up with a bloody good reason why you 're assaulting Virginia in broad daylight in the middle of a London exhibition I strongly advise you to get the hell out of here . |
| 6 | You remind me of a cocker spaniel I once owned . ’ |
| 7 | well he was a bit of a slave driver I mean every body |
| 8 | If they asked me to say thank you very much at the end of a shit interview I would n't , and if they did n't like it , I 'd probably leave . |
| 9 | The aqueduct carried the overflow stream over three sections of a by-pass channel I 'd cut from further up the dam . |
| 10 | I still possess a tape-recording of a news report I made for Irish radio in which — to a background of Palestinian rifle fire — I hear my own voice informing listeners in the furthest villages of County Mayo that they are listening to ‘ the last shots of the Lebanese civil war ’ . |
| 11 | In the middle of a French lesson I was taking , she stood on her desk and started to do a strip . |
| 12 | I tell them of a babysitting job I had when I was 12 . |
| 13 | Like that deep trog of a bank manager I went to see at the end of my first term at university . |
| 14 | Once again , thanks for the best laugh I 've had since my friend Daniel fell out of a transit van I was driving when I unexpectedly chucked a right . |
| 15 | ‘ If I ever saw pepper coming out of a pepper pot I would find that funny . |
| 16 | She 's more of a family person I think |
| 17 | But first of all in terms of a precedency attitude I hope I 'm looking in the right place ? |
| 18 | Clutched tightly to the breast of a Shetland sweater I took breath and screamed . |
| 19 | With my back against the stout trunk of an oak tree I crouched still , hoping that my green anorak was blending nicely with the surround , and trying to ignore the gnats which promptly and itchily invaded my scalp . |
| 20 | If any readers would like to receive a free copy of an information sheet I have produced on the types of environmental audits and what they can achieve they should write to me at the address below : |