Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She frequently waited for the King outside Buckingham Palace , even though he did not even know of her existence . |
| 2 | Last time I saw him he did n't exactly approve of me . ’ |
| 3 | He did n't usually think of Margaret so much when he was away , but the whole thing had him on edge . |
| 4 | He did n't much approve of animal experimentation in the first place , so I 'd guess that it was forced on him by the sponsor . ’ |
| 5 | He did n't really approve of women earning a living , but the extra income would come in useful . |
| 6 | He had frankly given no thought whatsoever to the child 's name ; he had not yet thought of him as an identity anyway . |
| 7 | At first the spy thought he had stumbled on something worth investigating : Wordsworth carried a telescope , and Coleridge was surveying the river ( he was in fact making notes for a projected long poem , The Brook ) ; furthermore , Coleridge 's oft-repeated references to ‘ Spy Nosy ’ were assumed by the Home Office spy to be aimed at him personally — he had presumably never heard of Spinoza , the philosopher of the moment . |
| 8 | As they travelled through city stations , some he had n't even heard of — Peterborough , Grantham , Newark , York — crowds waved and cheered their heroes . |
| 9 | The clothes of people who died were naturally left behind ; he had n't ever thought of that . |
| 10 | He had never previously thought of himself as acquisitive or even as particularly materialistic . |
| 11 | Trying not to think about her possible reaction , Henry loaded cured fish , offal , red meat and a bold assortment of vegetables he had never even heard of , let alone eaten . |
| 12 | It was an awesome sight to Owen — the charred and burning cottages almost totally engulfed , the huddled families powerless before the wanton destruction of all they possessed , their torturers still encircling him , screaming out the names of tunes he had never even heard of . |
| 13 | Well , it makes a very good tale , only I do n't know if I could remember any of it ’ He beamed on Taliesin , and then said in an aside to Fribble that he had never yet heard of a Tyrian who did n't judge his wine remarkably well . |
| 14 | He had never before spoken of sleepless nights ; neither , as far as she knew , had he ever complained of any kind of illness . |