Example sentences of "a [noun sg] i [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it 's a , it 's a , it 's a case I suppose of , of science revealing the obvious , but er , of , of course it 's a fact today , we know why it 's a fact . |
| 2 | There was a newsflash I caught of a big pile-up on the E 35 autobahn outside Freiburg … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There 's a girl I know of called Bella something , ’ said Mary . |
| 4 | Of the other two paintings , one is a picture of a friend , a girl who was also a student , posing in the same life-room , and the other , a portrait I made of a fellow student and good friend of mine from the Royal Academy , James Tower , who became a noted ceramicist . |
| 5 | For a moment I thought of getting on my joke transport and heading back to the East Oxford slums where I belonged . |
| 6 | For a moment I thought of driving out to the Jackson house , and beating out of the lawyer whatever information he had . |
| 7 | And there 's a copse I know of , the end of a tongue of woodland that gives good cover for a retreat to the river with a prisoner . |
| 8 | The first person I ever came out to as a student was a person I suspected of being gay and everyone else thought he was gay ; in fact , he vehemently denied it after I came out . |
| 9 | make a quarter I think of whatever you sell it for . |
| 10 | He was local to the area , I think it was one of these bakers that used to used to do it but er he probably only used to do it once a week sell it once a week I think of all the people that was on course we got the best , we got the best place and er and it came out that the erm tourist information booklet . |
| 11 | I was staring at a woman I thought of you . |
| 12 | And much as I coveted a wonderful watercolour by Albert that I came across in an Alice Springs gallery for 4,000 dollars I was even more taken with the traditional native art , particularly since it seemed to offer useful hints about a problem I had of seeing the outback in ways other than through the window-on-the-world vision that developed in Renaissance Italy . |
| 13 | ‘ It is like a house I dreamed of once , where I wandered through its rooms for an eternity . ’ |