Example sentences of "kind [prep] [adj] [noun sg] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if a journalist able to do you any kind of legitimate favour he or she will certainly feel that you owe him or her one in return ; this debt may be called in when you are least able to be informative . |
| 2 | Indeed , by the early 1980s Castells had largely rejected the kind of grand theorising he had earlier been proposing . |
| 3 | ‘ Is she ? ’ he asked , and with a kind of conspiratorial look he drew in the air with both hands the figure of eight — representing the standard desirable female shape . |
| 4 | Sien had taken to staring into the abyss with the kind of inherent fatality he dreaded in himself . |
| 5 | And I 'd walk around the empty house , or ring Mum for a chat ; sometimes I 'd lie on the floor in Charlie 's attic and wonder what he was doing and what kind of good time he was having . |
| 6 | So Mimi walked out , and suddenly he faced a kind of emotional turmoil he had never before experienced . |
| 7 | This kind of religious outlook he regarded as neither biblical nor Protestant . |
| 8 | In 1970 an opportunity came Cuckney 's way which offered the kind of unusual challenge he has always relished . |
| 9 | With a kind of stolid tranquillity he began to reflect on the day 's work ahead . |
| 10 | With the help of defiant stances and some actual fighting , Jock establishes himself in public reputation as the kind of tough lad he enjoys being taken to be . |
| 11 | So it was ‘ all change ’ on Pig Street : Solomon Mead replaced Elizabeth Titford in the little dwelling house which had served the Titford family so well over the years , and Thomas Tuck began to see what kind of commercial success he could make out of the vacated butcher and chandler 's shop next door . |
| 12 | Mr McQueen joined them at table , and gave Johnson the kind of local knowledge he loved — the economics , way of life , problems of such an existence . |
| 13 | In the first place , far from eliminating the kind of inter-party competition he believed to be the fatally debilitating flaw of liberal democracy , it would add another participant to the contest . |
| 14 | In his 1959 essay " The English School in a Democracy " Bateson outlines the characteristics of the kind of trained mind he envisages , which seem to fit in with the mental attitudes and orientations most suited to the democratic process . |
| 15 | However , when the production shifted back to Los Angeles , the day before shooting started , he lost the kind of gravelly voice he had been working on . |
| 16 | In that kind of free market he thrived and survived — and so will the best of his work . |
| 17 | The war was just what he needed , and the kind of secret department he was given could have been designed for him . |