Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon after tennis I was sitting on a drawing-room sofa at Bemersyde when Dawyck 's dog , a long black cocker spaniel called Wasp , came and nuzzled up against me in the most friendly manner . |
| 2 | When Not-Flaubert spotted his name on the piece of cardboard I was holding , he simply stopped pushing the trolley , left it standing among the shoving airport crowd and walked towards Jeeta and his wife-to-be , Jamila . |
| 3 | I felt disinclined actually to hand to him the piece of paper I was holding , and so put it down on the end of his bed . |
| 4 | The money which is already in the foundation covers the refurbishing of the gallery and should also cover the kind of compensation I am getting for lending the pictures . |
| 5 | Of course while they may be imagining that they are bending my ear and creating a good impression , they are also providing me with the kind of evidence I am looking for about the gendered and generational aspects of this kind of racism . |
| 6 | you know a kind of painkiller I 'm taking . |
| 7 | He 's the kind of guy I 'm lookin' for to head up regional planning . |
| 8 | Mick Bloor 's qualitative work on adenotonsillectomy is a perfect example of the kind of study I 'm talking about . |
| 9 | Later Treat , who followed V as in Victim with other books in the same vein , was to say , " I did n't know I was writing police procedurals until somebody invented the term and said that was the kind of thing I was writing . " |
| 10 | It was , in fact , just a peculiarly rich and extended example , and the kind of thing I was doing was in principle applicable to great numbers of texts . |
| 11 | And the kind of thing I was doing was in principle applicable to great numbers of texts . |
| 12 | At about the second hour of day I was told that Kenamun would be leading the investigation . |
| 13 | I can only explain my reluctance , honestly , to the fact that up to now I was n't ready — the views expressed might be too ‘ militant ’ , lesbian-orientated and ‘ anarchist ’ for the type of feminism I was espousing . |
| 14 | The type of abortion I am referring to is induced and I believe that the woman should be given the right to be able to choose whether she needs one , rather than certain religious leaders or laws . |
| 15 | I was a little unsettled by the fury of the blizzard , and hugged the top of the ridge all the way along , but avoided taking in the top due west of Cairn Gorm in case I was blown off my feet . |
| 16 | I was of course reminded of my mission regarding the young gentleman and it occurred to me that an outdoor setting , with the general proximity of nature , and in particular the example of the geese close at hand , would not be an unsuitable setting at all in which to convey the sort of message I was bearing . |
| 17 | Oh , that was about the sort of price I was thinking of . |
| 18 | I sought out and consulted separately with three of the sleeping-car attendants in the racegoers ' sleeping cars who frowned in turn and said that first , the sort of jacket I was describing was worn by thousands , and second , everyone tended to look gaunt outside in the cold air . |
| 19 | So you can , what what I 'm thinking of now is not so much , I 've been thinking of stuff that you have done , and that if you sort of spend a little bit of , not much time , maybe ten minutes on each topic , just having a little look at it and finding a problem , this is the sort of problem I was doing a month or two ago , can I do this one ? |
| 20 | ‘ That 's not quite the sort of husband I 'm looking for , so just as well . ’ |
| 21 | I was trying to make out what sort of creature I was going to be living with ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I keep telling you , Anne , that 's not the sort of thing I 'm looking for . |
| 23 | So th that 's that 's the sort of thing I 'm doing . |
| 24 | And , for the sake of brevity I 'm gon na give you some definitions . |
| 25 | On the winter evening in question I was sharing a bottle of champagne with Toby and we were , inevitably , talking golf . |
| 26 | It 's a smart move which leads him out onto a limb of high-flown verbiage , as in the charmingly titled Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things : ‘ I 'm electric with the snap and crackle of creation/ I 'm mixing up the mud with the spit/ So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus/ Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky/ Like crack crazed kings ’ . |
| 27 | I could also see the colour of paint I was using due to the pearly-white bristles . |
| 28 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 29 | Let me make myself clear , Florence : at the first sign of trouble I am turning back . ’ |
| 30 | On the day in question I was driven down to Wapping where the meeting was to take place at St Peter 's School . |