Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The honourable gentlemen is asking me for procedural advice across floor of the house , which he knows that I do not volunteer . |
| 2 | I had an apartment on the third floor , overlooking the square and the end of the Avenida Jose Antonio de Rivera round which I would watch Dana coming to join me for another afternoon of poetry . |
| 3 | You take me for some kind of fool , do you ? |
| 4 | You take me for some kind of arsehole ! |
| 5 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 6 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 7 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 8 | Did Quigley see me as some kind of John the Baptist figure ? |
| 9 | ‘ You 're using me as some sort of buffer between yourself and your feelings for Claire . |
| 10 | You flatter me by insisting on seeing me as some sort of Casanova figure . |
| 11 | When a colleague discovered that I was coming here to do this er she saw it as laughable and she also saw it as something that I would prefer to keep quiet from my colleagues and tried a bit of moral blackmail on me as well to say I 'm going to tell them about that if you do n't them about this sort of thing . |
| 12 | The aim of the project in relation to schools is to regard them as one kind of community group among others . |
| 13 | Before this single , the rather distanced American rock press failed to probe deeply into the phenomenon of The Smiths and had constantly referred to them as some kind of wacko gay outfit , English eccentrics playing lightweight rock . |
| 14 | In addition , we must try to augment our oil revenues so as to enable the government to invest them for future development in industry and for processes and inventions at present unknown to us . |
| 15 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 16 | They apparently need them for all manner of reasons . ’ |
| 17 | erm I would suggest that anybody who 's really erm concerned in the way you were can either approach their local Education Authority and ask them for some kind of information on this . |
| 18 | It was impossible for the garrison to fire upon them for some time without risk of injuring their neighbours along with their enemies . |
| 19 | People react in different ways to odours , for example most people would probably describe rural odours or odour from a brewery , perfumery , or fish and chip shop as pleasant , but not all , some would find them unpleasant , pungent even , especially after being subjected to them for any length of time . |
| 20 | Such organizations have many other characteristics which anybody who has worked in them for any length of time will recognize . |
| 21 | There are a number of issues which still concern me about continuing education for students with disabilities , just as they did when I entered college life — for example , the fear and ignorance that often surrounds this seemingly homogeneous condition known as ‘ disability ’ , and the unmitigated prejudice and stereotyping of people who do not ‘ fit ’ into a mythical category commonly known as ‘ normal ’ . |
| 22 | But the thing that always concerns me about these kind of decisions under those kind of circumstances is that it might be a temporary depression : in other words a suicide wish , and this is a terrifically difficult issue that is bantered about a lot under these kind of circumstances , and normally , if someone says ‘ Kill me , ’ you figure they 're crazy . |
| 23 | ‘ Is that why you flew from me after that night in Glenshee ? ’ |
| 24 | There 's a second group of students who write to me after that letter in May , and say , ‘ I no longer want to do English at university . |
| 25 | ‘ No way am I worth that sort of money , and it 's annoying because I 've started getting begging letters . |
| 26 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 27 | And the dominance among them of this point of view hardened the tensions and conflicts within an industrial society . |
| 28 | It reminded me of that episode in Rudyard Kipling 's Kim where the boy is confronted with a shattered pot and comes under pressure to reconstruct it in his mind as it once was . |
| 29 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
| 30 | So , to take one illustration from the law reports , if you are the company 's assistant accountant , it could be unfair to dismiss you for alleged lack of management ability if that has no real bearing on your daily tasks . |