Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never tried to copy those guitar players , but I tried to steal it and kind of change it a little bit . ’ |
| 2 | His almost pathological dread of producing a legato line means that instead of drawing us a picture of clear , flowing melodies he leaves little join-up-the-dots type sketches with the notes separated from each other by wide open spaces which even the generous resonance of St Peter 's , Waltrop ( near Dortmund ) can not adequately fill . |
| 3 | One caller accused him of labelling it a hell-hole . |
| 4 | Its main ploy for deflecting criticism will be to demonstrate the depth of its respect for the dead man : it is talking of building him a memorial . |
| 5 | I fear , however , that in my anxiety to win the support of Mrs Clements and the girls , I did not perhaps assess quite as stringently my own limitations ; and although my experience and customary caution in such matters prevented my giving myself more than I could actually carry out , I was perhaps negligent over this question of allowing myself a margin . |
| 6 | I expect somebody might of given him a lift up , I do n't know . |
| 7 | You could of given me a little bit more room . |
| 8 | erm it seemed so disappointing to me that I mean we go to the bother of producing what a fifty odd page telephone directory and people do n't even look at it |
| 9 | have a read of things and then on the basis of what your informants tell you then you can sort of focus it a bit more on erm tt you know the stuff that er erm you know the stuff that comes out in the literature that 's particularly |
| 10 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 11 | So i i if you can er give me the background if I ask you to sort of give me a bit of background for the case , I 'll write it up here , and I 'll write down the solutions and see what , see what you 've done . |
| 12 | For my benefit would you just like to sort of give me a quick rattle through as as as to what you intend to do . |
| 13 | Er , er , are you going to sort of give me a timetable that I can read through to the phone and that it 's not booked up |
| 14 | Can you sort of give it a sweep ? |
| 15 | What is called ‘ any benefit , or even any legal possibility of benefit , ’ in Mr. Smith 's notes to Cumber v. Wane , is not ( as I conceive ) that sort of benefit which a creditor may derive from getting payment of part of the money due to him from a debtor who might otherwise keep him at arm 's length , or possibly become insolvent , but is some independent benefit , actual or contingent , of a kind which might in law be a good and valuable consideration for any other sort of agreement not under seal . |
| 16 | He leaves the questions of defining what a group is , and of how it acquires the capacity for influencing the mental life of the individual , until later . |
| 17 | Fearful of waking him a second time I waited . |
| 18 | She sort of give me a |
| 19 | erm so er tt I think the other thing that 'll be nice if erm er given , if the first years are filling it in er in about a week and a half 's time , if we could if you could try and bash some of the data in fairly rapidly so that , you know kind of before the end of term we can , you know , kind of give them a brief digest of how , what , what the results were |
| 20 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 21 | erm you might as well do a bit of a erm you know kind of give it a go and see what happens |
| 22 | You know , sort of give it a good chance . |
| 23 | After all that , one of the arms fell off recently , reminding me of the time the same thing happened during a recording of Give Us A Clue . |
| 24 | I saw a school essay containing the word ‘ yrnetn ’ for wire netting ; and only the other day the Independent Magazine carried an advertisement for Philips Dictation Systems with the interesting sentence : ‘ In the time it took Dickens to write A Tale of Two Cities he could of told us a dozen more . ’ |
| 25 | I did think of paying them a non-means-tested benefit in exchange for abstention , but I 'm sure I 'd never get the figures past Margaret Beckett . |
| 26 | Caroline , poised on the first-floor terrace of her mother 's old town house in Kalkara Creek , in the act of pouring herself a Campari and orange in the midday sunshine , looked up and started to smile politely . |
| 27 | Perhaps it will come as no surprise to my readers to hear not only that all knowledge of selling me a coffin was denied but even that they were now , or ever had been , coffin-manufacturers . |
| 28 | ‘ On top of that , Portsmouth have players like Clarke and Whittingham , who are always capable of getting you a goal . |
| 29 | You 're sort of getting it a bit more |
| 30 | If he saw Doyle in the pub he 'd slide out of buying him a drink . |