Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked into this little club on the highway and I 'd never heard of them before , but there was this great , white blues band . |
| 2 | You did indeed Norman and I 'd never thought of it , but there we are . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've lived here for years , and I 've never heard of a Mrs Rochester ! ’ |
| 4 | And I 've never heard of Peter Wright . |
| 5 | And I 've always thought of marriage as a sort of young adventure , two people of the same age setting out together , discovering together , growing together . |
| 6 | It was an excitement that matched my own , for I had never sailed the South Seas and I had long dreamed of that scatter of tiny , magically named islands strewn across one third of a globe . |
| 7 | Our wartime experiences were nearly at an end and I sat there thinking of all the many people I had known briefly , wondering if I should see any of them again , and remembering the many whom I knew I should never see again . |
| 8 | It is a frightening experience , and I have never heard of anyone doing it a second time . |
| 9 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |
| 10 | Such is fame : our exploit brought us international mention with a few lines by the Canadian Press but our feat was not mentioned in Robert Ripley 's ‘ Believe It or Not ’ column , and we had never heard of the Guinness Book of Records in those early days . |
| 11 | ‘ Parents have to rely on references to gauge their backgrounds , and we 've all heard of cases when references are forged . |
| 12 | Verily , thou art mistaken — I contacted Microvalue , and they 've never heard of it . |
| 13 | ‘ I rang up Scotland Yard to tell you something this morning , and they 'd never heard of you . ’ |
| 14 | I then rang the Family Health Authority er myself , and they 'd never heard of the person and had no trace of of the name I gave them . |
| 15 | Because this was a Thursday and he had never thought of going out on a Thursday before , and because of the previous Saturday night , coming back to collect the washing . |