Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can never forget how he used to come over in the evening from Bembridge School to sit with me after my son died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-seven , only eight months after his marriage . |
| 2 | In 1981–82 , courses were running in some twenty centres catering for about 800 trainees ; they attended for about 80 hours , usually on day release , and their programme consisted of training in fundamental skills in four main areas : what are called Instructional Skills ; Counselling and Caring ; Evaluation ; and Core Competencies . |
| 3 | Their father disapproved of alcohol at any time , but to enter a public house on the Sabbath was completely unthinkable . |
| 4 | Inspired by Dante 's Divine Comedy and the sad tale of his love fur Beatrice and by medieval ballads about a knight saving a damsel in distress , their works told of lovers in search of a beloved , a metaphor for the ‘ artist in search of his muse ’ . |
| 5 | Vinnen , whose offensive smacked of anti-semitism in that it centred on the figure of Paul Cassirer and lambasted the critics for being in the service of speculators and dealers , called for a boycott on the purchase of non-German art . |
| 6 | One of the boys at school knew a kid whose father worked with a man whose cousin died of rabies after being bitten by a rat from Bradford Beck . |
| 7 | He would become again a Northern Ireland Protestant — though with a difference , certainly : he was no longer a resident ; he was learned ; he had the wonderful gifts both of imagination and a clear and analytical mind ; and above all his faith came of Grace to which he responded heroically , in patience and self-sacrifice — when he was aware of himself . |
| 8 | His mother died of pneumonia in 1873 , and his father remarried in 1874 . |
| 9 | His language consisted of babble plus muttering and echolalic phrases . |