Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [vb past] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the poet Gray said of Grasmere in the Lake District : ‘ This little unsuspected paradise , where all is peace , rusticity and happy poverty . ’ |
| 2 | WHEN Saul Bellow wrote of America as the place where the ‘ modern action ’ is , he might as well have included the whole continent : Central and South America , with their chaotic flux of civil wars , bloody massacres , assassinations , coups and putsches , are about as modern as the action gets . |
| 3 | On the opposite side of the road to the gardens is the Hospício Maria Amélia , originally a gift by the Dowager Empress of Brazil , whose only daughter the Princess Maria Amélia died of consumption in Madeira in 1853 . |
| 4 | Still to come : was Shakespeare in truth the seventeenth Earl of Oxford , and a Van Gogh made of money at the Museum of Modern Art . |
| 5 | John Claudius Loudon wrote of statues in his great Encyclopedia of Gardening ( 1822 ) : ‘ They excite interest , often produce character … when a few are judiciously introduced ; but profusely scattered about , they distract attention . ’ |
| 6 | So cold was the weather that Sergeant Phillips died of hypothermia on only the second night . |
| 7 | It tended to produce this monotonous field pattern , and it also produced ‘ a continuous sheet of greensward ’ , as William Marshall observed of Leicestershire in 1790 , instead of the multi-coloured patchwork of the old arable strips . |
| 8 | Uncle Bill died of pneumonia in his middle forties . |
| 9 | And so I think it is worth recalling what W.H. Auden wrote of Beerbohm in 1965 : |
| 10 | In March 1931 , Sir john Simon spoke of socialism as ‘ a poisonous doctrine ’ and declared that he would not close his mind to tariffs as a method of dealing with the economic crisis . |
| 11 | Gene Tunney disposed of Dempsey in 1926 and , after that , Larry Gains observed , blacks ' frustrations about the colour line spiralled : |
| 12 | Les 's first wife Meg died of cancer in 1986 . |
| 13 | His stepmother Phyllis died of cancer in a nursing home in Guildford on 29 June . |
| 14 | IT WAS manager Mike Walker 's birthday but , more significantly , it was the day Norwich came of age as Championship challengers . |
| 15 | Diana Dors died of cancer in 1984 , aged 53 . |
| 16 | The almost total dependence of the media on the western news agencies Reuters and AFP meant that the image Tanzania received of events in Africa and the rest of the world was largely determined by those organizations . |
| 17 | In Jones v. Padavatton [ 1969 ] 1 W.L.R. 328 at 333 , above , p. 186 , Salmon L.l. said of Shadwell v. Shadwell : ‘ I confess that I should have decided it without hesitation in accordance with the views of Byles l. , but this is of no consequence . |
| 18 | Lady Bell wrote of women in Middlesbrough in 1907 being ‘ curiously devoid of public spirit or interest in outside affairs ’ , and some 40 years later , Slater and Woodside described their female respondents as looking out on the world from their homes ‘ as from a beleaguered fortress ’ . |
| 19 | Some years ago Edmund Wilson complained of writers of Gothic who could fail to lay hold on the terrors that lie deep in the human soul and have caused man to fear himself . |
| 20 | Former SPD Chancellor Willy Brandt died of cancer on Oct. 9 at the age of 78 . |