Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [art] [noun] 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 Worse still , the new Leeds are as sly and provocative as Don Revie 's sides , with none of the skills which made them the Liverpool of the Seventies .
14 " 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 .
15 The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 This will spare them the necessity of checking to find out why you did n't acknowledge the call .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 The models he works with may be shot by all the big name photographers , but it is the pictures that they do with Steven Meisel that will make them the icons of our times .
22 But does this make them the future of rock ‘ n ’ roll ?
23 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 !
24 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 .
25 ‘ Would you like me to dig too , or will you stop and make me a cup of coffee ? ’
26 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 !
27 She lent me a couple of hundred quid because I was in financial difficulty .
28 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 .
29 He asked me a lot of questions which I did not understand .
30 And he asked me a lot of very pertinent questions which seemed to me more than idle curiosity .
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