Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the point at which I as a mathematical physicist begin to splutter and go red in the face . |
| 2 | Mr is , is , is asking the questions which which for a long time . |
| 3 | He still considered himself something of a failed journalist ( NME amongst others , had turned him down five times in the early years ) and he often expressed a desire to use his new found influence to move into spasmodic fits of journalese . |
| 4 | Thought himself something of a political philosopher . |
| 5 | To his complete amazement , Frankie found himself something of a minor celebrity among the children of St Andrew 's . |
| 6 | erm on the problems of getting a job , for instance , erm in Oxford , because there is such an inequality between the erm rents that landlords will charge people on benefit and the rents which anybody on a low paid job could actually afford to pay . |
| 7 | The commission is effectively saying the Government has not followed the UN Convention for Refugees , under which anyone with a well-founded fear of persecution should be granted asylum . |
| 8 | If the Comintern , too , decided that the anti-fascist coalition would be weakened in Vietnam by national independence , itself something of a bourgeois concept , and if the Indochina Communist Party followed suit , no matter how reluctantly , it would at a stroke lose a very significant part of its political appeal . |
| 9 | Besides , Gregory 's preface is in itself something of a rhetorical display , leading to a defence of his use of rustic speech . |
| 10 | Although you will be present throughout the ceremony , I fear the later stages will find you something of a poor audience . ’ |
| 11 | To make the film would cost you something like a hundred and twenty thousand pounds . |
| 12 | No , no I 'll give you one with a three letter one , first letter R , clue , rank could it be row , rank , row |
| 13 | If we give you that we can give you it in a certain way , but it is not necessarily meaningful . |
| 14 | Just an hour from the capital , Peshawar , gun shops will sell you anything from a Chinese automatic machine gun to a rocket launcher . |
| 15 | This took time , and it was not until 1931 that Kell was chosen as the director around whom something like a national security service could be built . |
| 16 | so that even if we get a young person coming out of the workshops that may not be the best electrician going , we can find them something in a related area — an electrical warehouse , where their knowledge of the bits that they know will be put to good use and they 'll still be in that environment they want to work in . |
| 17 | Once the Greeks grow familiar with the alternation of democratically elected governments , and once their economy is giving them something like a proper European standard of life , they will behave like proper Europeans . |
| 18 | Secondly , it may be useful to review the operation of a different regulatory regime , that is , one which to a greater or lesser degree relies on market forces and self-regulation to police it . |
| 19 | We had tourist visitors of every age and family , and some quaint scenes were witnessed on the upgoing — many of the native children ( and one who in a few years after might be called an old man ) found it a profitable , and I doubt not , too , a pleasurable work , leading the tourists to the top . |
| 20 | They handled something something like a thousand pounds worth of cars that |
| 21 | Secondly we have not heard of anything that has changed in this county since nineteen eighty sufficient to warrant or justify in this alteration the addition of a policy the effect of which , one one with a similar effect having been thrown out at that time . |
| 22 | Send one copy to your insurer and keep one yourself in a safe place . |
| 23 | She sent him theatre tickets for two anonymously and bought herself one for a few seats further back . |
| 24 | A second or two later , however , Fabia was turning her concentration to her plate , and giving herself something of a silent talking-to — her theme being that Ven would think he was lunching with some deranged lunatic if she went on grinning like that at him all through the meal . |
| 25 | In conclusion , is there anything of a general nature that can be said about Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem ? |
| 26 | Her own afforded her nothing but a transient thrill , but mine supplied another dose of semen to chuck at the uterine wall where , sooner or later , she reckoned , some of it must stick . |
| 27 | He says sure , he was clean all right , and the screws left him nothing but a shit-soiled bucket and two aspirin to sort himself out with . |
| 28 | Taking deep breaths he was patted on the back by a man beside him who in a shallow voice said , |
| 29 | He poured it into the glasses and handed her one with a mocking little bow that nearly made Hilary throw the liquid all over him . |
| 30 | ‘ He had another one made later at the Mandarin Hotel , but the first one made him something of a laughing stock . ’ |