Example sentences of "kind of [noun] [subord] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't even know I had any kind of title until I went to prep school when I started to get these letters saying : ‘ The Honourable Charles ’ . |
| 2 | Then she would find her pride and not indulge in this kind of behaviour when it had no future . |
| 3 | Obviously the younger members of the family became too enthusiastic about it all because Grandfather Tallentire threatened a different kind of stop if they carried on spending so much of their time playing and talking about music . |
| 4 | And you stayed in that kind of work until you got married , ? |
| 5 | Perhaps he was n't without blame , but had n't she made the same kind of mistake when she had endowed Marcus with the qualities she 'd wanted him to possess ? |
| 6 | It is the same kind of calculation as we did for haemoglobin , and it produces a similarly large result . |
| 7 | As he himself said , it would be pointless to study such peoples with a questionnaire , since they do not write , and , while he certainly gained a great deal of essential information from conversation and discussion , it would have been quite futile to try to conduct any kind of interview until he had gained their trust and confidence , and until he had some idea of what kinds of questions he should be asking . |
| 8 | From my own experience and that of others , I knew that books about miscarriages of justice were always published in a kind of limbo where they remained for months if not years , totally ignored by those authorities whose business it was to evaluate and act on them . |
| 9 | I would imagine that Shereen would apply the same kind of pattern as you did to the de-toxification centre meeting , Shereen , and I felt that there were a great many people there , a great many interested , including the voluntary interest . |
| 10 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 11 | ‘ It was a kind of torture because it reminded me of how you made love . ’ |
| 12 | He sat down and watched her , fascinated , as she put the bread to her mouth , her eyes closing in a kind of ecstasy when she bit into it . |