Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I got rid of that thing . |
| 2 | Oh I kept thinking of this fire hazard thought I ca n't , I ca n't live with that any longer |
| 3 | I had heard of this spirit creature . |
| 4 | I said that this was the first I had heard of this claim . " |
| 5 | Earlier this evening Graham I thought you erm made a complaint about the number of reports that are coming to committee er but it 's not for that reason that I wanted to dispose of this motion now erm but there are other reasons . |
| 6 | The fact that almost nobody had heard of this prerogative turned out to one of the judges to be a point in its favour : |
| 7 | In Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1988 ] 2 WLR 805 at p873 , Lord Donaldson MR stated that at first instance Scott J had come to the conclusion that the duty to maintain confidentiality was not necessarily in all circumstances the same in relation to third parties who became possessed of confidential information as it was in relation to the primary confident . |
| 8 | She got rid of that nonsense somewhere down the way before she came to me . |
| 9 | With a little frown , she tried to think of another reason . |
| 10 | Her husband gave out she 'd perished of some wasting disease , and duly married someone else , less beautiful but more docile , who gave him twelve children . ’ |
| 11 | After it she felt soothed of any irritation she may have felt with the last letter , wiped her mouth with satisfaction , and picked up the Oswaldston Gazette . |
| 12 | The spacious living area of his suite was as luxurious as everything else she had seen of this hotel — a pair of couches facing each other across a low table , two individual chairs at an angle close to the window , with a desk and a bar supplying practical touches . |
| 13 | So all she had heard of this woman was true . |
| 14 | She had read of this sort of thing often enough ; she had heard of its happening to other people — even to people she knew — but she had never for one moment imagined that it could happen to her . |
| 15 | Evil places were said to retain an aura of Evil and , from what she had learned of this place from Mahoney , if ever that aura was present then it would dwell easily here . |
| 16 | She remembered the lover made up out of books and poems she had dreamed of all summer ; he crumpled like the paper he was made of before this insolent , off-hand , terrifying maleness , filling the room with its reek . |
| 17 | She had dreamed of this night of lust for seven weeks . |
| 18 | She tried to tell herself that she had come here today to be cured , to return to the cold world of normality ; but in another part of her mind she had dreamed of this meeting , the apotheosis of the love affair . |
| 19 | She was a bonny young 'un , right enough , and from a bonny mother , from what she had glimpsed of that lass as she skidded down the road with the polis after her . |
| 20 | She had dreamt of this moment , fantasised it in her mind so many lonely dark nights , and now it was happening and nothing had prepared her for this self-destruction . |
| 21 | He carried out 24 tests on 16 randomly selected farmers who had complained of debilitating illness following dipping . |
| 22 | He had an aunt in Leicester who had died of double pneumonia in 1964 , but she had never wanted to speak to him . |
| 23 | She continued to complain of epigastric pain and flatulence but repeated investigations were negative . |
| 24 | cos I wanted to go to bed and er , by the time we got rid of one lot of people another lot all came through though |
| 25 | They got rid of electronic monitoring equipment , including TV cameras and recorders , by complaining that these interfered with their powers and caused headaches . |
| 26 | They 'd no internal passports in this tiny country , but from what he 'd seen of this building they had computers the like of which the Leningrad Militia could only dream about . |
| 27 | ‘ But if he 'd known of this outrage , ’ said Philip , looking from one to the other of them with searching eyes , ‘ the boy would have told me in Isambard 's presence . |
| 28 | ‘ Poor Tom would have been so very unhappy if he 'd known of this situation , ’ she 'd sniffed while fumbling for a handkerchief . |
| 29 | As a young man he made friends effortlessly , but after his conversion he withheld proffers of easy affection , as if afraid of rebuff . |
| 30 | He demanded to know of another ambassador 's wife , no longer young , what kind of impression an old and unfashionable woman like her must give of Britain abroad : why could n't she look as attractive as the young woman opposite ? |