Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As director of social services for the London borough of Hillingdon I knew of the work with refugees in my role in Hillingdon I was responsible for services for child arrivals at Heathrow airport and I worked closely with Save The Children on the successful effort to get specific recognition for asylum seeking children in the asylum and immigration appeals act . |
| 2 | erm There was a great deal of difficulty I think at the court , as well as the rather glamorous exterior . |
| 3 | I did not dawdle , but as I had to pass our post pigeonholes , from force of habit I looked in mine in case the second post had been sorted early . |
| 4 | Try as I might , apart from a certain cosiness of tone I discerned in his interview with Brian Redhead , I do n't remember Neil Kinnock getting such an easy ride in his appearances . |
| 5 | So now if I need a ‘ new ’ piece of equipment I go to a reputable second-hand wood working machinery dealer . |
| 6 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said , commencing slowly what every contrary sense told him was a venture into dangerous territory , the piece of history I had in mind was a defenestration . |
| 7 | I sent two samples , one of dust particles , the other a piece of waste I believed to be asbestos , to Dr Martin Brewer in London for examination . |
| 8 | And I 'd like you , if you have n't destroyed them totally , to use the little piece of paper I gave to you all . |
| 9 | reveals the fruit in ripeness , when the floss inside is ready to be plucked , as soft as the lock of hair I keep with me always from your dear golden head . |
| 10 | The second general conception of law I introduced in the last chapter , legal pragmatism , holds that people are never entitled to anything but the judicial decision that is , all things considered , best for the community as a whole , without regard to any past political decision . |
| 11 | No mention is made here of another category of evidence I touched upon : tempos derived from timings , namely those by J. C. Smith for the Earl of Bute 's mechanical organ of 1762 . |
| 12 | And , with each scrap of information I unearthed about Tom Tunney , I seemed to forget something about myself . |
| 13 | It was only to Pam that I admitted to feeling guilty and ashamed of the wave of relief I felt at her funeral , as though a weight had been lifted from my shoulders . |
| 14 | His best effort was a second to Chief Celt at Towcester , when he was not fully wound up but he went great guns for Steve Smith-Eccles in a fast bit of work I watched on the Line gallop on Waterhall on Wednesday morning . |
| 15 | This is the only bit of garden I bother with , and nature can have the rest . |
| 16 | Just a bit of stomach I feel like being kicked in the stomach by a like a horse but that 's about it . |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't understand the kind of love I have for this great country we live in . |
| 18 | And I 'm trying to present the kind of things I do in this course and my other course . |
| 19 | When , for example , I was interviewing Moonies , I would ask them to describe their childhood and see whether religion was mentioned , then ask about the place of religion in their lives and see what kind of response I received before posing more specific questions about church going , belief in God , confirmation , the religious beliefs and practices of their parents — and so on . |
| 20 | Figure 7.1 lists some of these , together with the kind of thinking I have in mind . |
| 21 | An instance of the kind of fluidity I have in mind occurred for one boy who was in role as a ‘ robot controller ’ . |
| 22 | I do n't wish to hear from them on my return that you 've been airing the kind of sentiments I heard from you today . " |
| 23 | Despite the fact that I feel strongly about this issue , I remain open-minded and by seeing as much as is attainable my ideas will develop and so determine the kind of practitioner I hope to be . |
| 24 | This seems to me retrogressive , and in some respects a return to the kind of thing I heard in my younger days in Oxford : ‘ One can not hope to understand A , unless one also knows about B , C , D , etc . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It came with a job-lot of stuff I bought from a demolition firm , ’ Sam explained without stress . |
| 26 | Of the variety of amps I used with the Teardrop , the one which felt most compatible was , guess what , a Vox AC30 . |
| 27 | In the course of time I moved into other , larger rooms ; the last had a splendid view of Windsor Castle . |
| 28 | One example my coal hole accommodated for nigh on ten years was a case of Krug I bought after a successful poker evening . |
| 29 | A gang of girls I met in Coventry hanging around with some boys who , like them , were unemployed , said that when they were younger they did a bit of vandalising : " When I got pissed I smashed the windows of posh houses , " said one of them . |
| 30 | I tipped Arsenal for the championship at the start of the season and that 's the measure of respect I have for them because they are so resolute . |