Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel like you 've heard them a couple of hundred times when it 's only been twice . |
| 2 | Fortunately for Conran , he had attended the sort of public school ‘ which had taught me a lot of practical skills ’ . |
| 3 | Four years with a handicapped child have taught me a lot of things , but three in particular : |
| 4 | Cooke says : ‘ Egg pasta is certainly preferred by many chefs not only because of its excellent colour and flavour , but because it offers them the possibility of upgrading their pasta menus , thus increasing their profits . ’ |
| 5 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 6 | Later that night she came into my room in her kimono , bringing me a glass of champagne and carrying a book . |
| 7 | He said he was n't when he came to see me a couple of years back . |
| 8 | I 've built up my career in an area where women are not generally accepted , and just being seen as your girlfriend is going to lose me a lot of respect ! ’ |
| 9 | They serve as a valuable corrective to approaches of the kind that a behaviourist view might encourage , approaches which impose conformity on learners , reduce the scope of their participation as persons , and deny them the exercise of individual initiative in the learning process . |
| 10 | The government could pick up anyone they wanted and prosecute at their leisure , if we made them a present of all those names . |
| 11 | Anyway , when the ambulance men came we made them a cup of tea , cos they said they a they 'd have been that busy they have n't had a break ! |
| 12 | So we made them a cup of tea and hopefully they were going to talk her into it . |
| 13 | " The American South where I come from is mighty proud of its good manners , messieurs , " said the senator , flashing them a smile of exaggerated charm . |
| 14 | Mr Major 's appeal to the rest of the EC came as he launched a late plan to bring Denmark back on board by allowing them a range of opt-outs from the Treaty — without altering the terms of the agreement itself . |
| 15 | To deal with this , a group of merchants who wanted to trade in a particular part of the world would ask the monarch for a charter allowing them a monopoly of bringing goods from their chosen region into England , giving them rights to defend themselves against pirates and bandits with their own armed force , and letting them settle legal problems that would otherwise have to wait years until they got back to England . |
| 16 | This will spare them the necessity of checking to find out why you did n't acknowledge the call . |
| 17 | Brad disappears to change clothes , and , when he returns , a grey T-shirt hanging out over green satin pyjama bottoms ‘ for maximum comfort ’ , offers me a cup of coffee . |
| 18 | And they 'd come up and wait them but I 'd make them a cup of coffee or a cup of cocoa or something like that , there were n't coffee then cos we could n't afford coffee we used to have cocoa or make them a mug of tea . |
| 19 | But does this make them the future of rock ‘ n ’ roll ? |
| 20 | It will make me a man of of greater standing in the community , I 'll be more respected , folk will have more deference towards me , I 'll be a bigger land owner ! |
| 21 | I could s I I even though it might make me a lot of money because I know that if I got if I made a dozen phone calls and did n't get any deals I 'd be out there wanting play the er I would n't trust myself . |
| 22 | ‘ Would you like me to dig too , or will you stop and make me a cup of coffee ? ’ |
| 23 | Oh well of course that 's making me have a parched throat you know , so you 're gon na have to ma , go and make me a cup of tea ! |
| 24 | She lent me a couple of hundred quid because I was in financial difficulty . |
| 25 | The special position of the chief constable has been discussed in Chapter 4 , but there are other officers whose position grants them a degree of independent authority . |
| 26 | He asked me a lot of questions which I did not understand . |
| 27 | And he asked me a lot of very pertinent questions which seemed to me more than idle curiosity . |
| 28 | He asked me a lot of suspicious questions , and eventually I was shown to what must have been the poorest room in his house , over the kitchen , facing a hen-run . |
| 29 | He asked me a lot of questions about myself — what I wanted to do with my life , that sort of thing … |
| 30 | Albert as chairman asked me a number of questions to which he already knew the answers for the good reason that we had already gone over them in Fulham . |