Example sentences of "of a [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It seemed to take less of a hit to give me a concussion and it 's taking me longer to recover , ’ he says . |
| 2 | It would n't take a very big hit with the mass of a forklift to dent it in actual fact . |
| 3 | If you ca n't , but would n't mind keeping the draft till you 're in Prague ( it 's good for six months ) , it may be less of a hassle cashing it there , especially as the bank in Brno may charge you something for the transaction . |
| 4 | ( Once a 14-year-old son of a friend asked him if he did n't ever get nervous building lighthouses with the sea pounding ferociously on the rocks below him . |
| 5 | However , out of the blue came the offer of a friend to do it for me , and naturally I accepted gratefully . |
| 6 | We all know the limitations of a friend teaching you to drive — the finer points are never brought out unless the friend is himself an instructor . |
| 7 | For , according to the terms of her contract with Vasey 's , with the exception of a clause giving them the right to instant dismissal should she ever be guilty of industrial misconduct , either party was to give the other three months ' notice . |
| 8 | ‘ That bastard of a Frenchman sent them ! ’ |
| 9 | He makes contacts with Eritrean representatives in London , and then the professional lure of a scoop brings him , bumpily , to the front line in the mountains , with Asmara , the capital , only a 100 miles away . |
| 10 | Exercising in front of a mirror encourages us to take a real look at our bodies and get to know and control them better . |
| 11 | ( 1 ) A licensing board may grant an occasional licence to the holder of a licence authorising him to sell alcoholic liquor , during such hours and on such day as the board may determine , in the course of catering for an event taking place outwith the licensed premises in respect of which he is the holder of a licence . |
| 12 | of a licence authorising you to drive a vehicle of that class . |
| 13 | ‘ of a licence authorising you to drive a vehicle of that class ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ of a licence authorising you to drive a vehicle of that class ’ . |
| 15 | How much of a check do they actually go into if somebody makes a claim on that ? |
| 16 | If persuasion does not work , ‘ green conditionality ’ might be the answer in some cases , unpopular though it would be ; and for the really hard cases , sanctions , provided there is sufficient of a consensus to back them and the industrial world has not sunk into a mood of profound fatalism about the impossibility of stemming the greenhouse gases . |
| 17 | I need a bit of a push to do it . |
| 18 | Oh dear — arrival of a cat to harass me . |
| 19 | Well certainly I mean , one would want to have a substantial majority in favour of a call to issue it . |
| 20 | ‘ Here am I , in my thirteenth summer and wedded to a boy of ten who will be unable to complete the marriage for at least five years — and with no sign of a bosom to show I am truly a damsel full grown ! ’ |
| 21 | Only a handful of British companies were of a size to contemplate it , and among them there existed a curious air of parochialism , of not wanting to venture into foreign-language recordings , or markets which were unfamiliar . |
| 22 | Whichever way she attempts to retreat she may have the back end of a rabbit preventing her moving either way along the hole . |
| 23 | Compliance with new legislation might , however , be more costly for firms that are dominant in UK markets alone , and do not currently regard the powers of the OFT and MMC as sufficient of a threat to require them to take competition policy particularly seriously . |
| 24 | ‘ But it became obvious that we were n't posing enough of a threat to get them through the bottle neck and as a result they dived and went hell-for-leather back into Scapa Flow . |
| 25 | There was a tap at the window , through the curly apertures in the lace ; Davide started , turned , and saw the knobbly tarsi of a cockerel with the talons attached , crooked and stiff like arthritic hands ; above , the solemn face of a child informed him that it was a gift from the little one 's grandmother , in gratitude . |
| 26 | I suppose you could say I was all kinds of a fool to trust him , but I 'm a designer , not an accountant . |
| 27 | ‘ What kind of a fool do you think I am ! ’ |
| 28 | And not just because he 's affronted at the idea of a dragon beating him over 100 metres . |
| 29 | ‘ You are still strong , sir , and young plants need the strength and safety of a tree to support them . ’ |
| 30 | His heavy footsteps were thumping nearer and nearer when the root of a tree sent him sprawling . |