Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Christ , he got rid of the blanket , ’ yelped Billy . |
| 2 | He let go of the doorknob and thrust his hands back into his pockets . |
| 3 | He let go of the door he was clutching for support and tested the muscles in his legs . |
| 4 | Jane thought she 'd better not offer to shake hands in case he let go of the stick and fell over . |
| 5 | He let go of the handle , and put his large hands round hers , to hold the shears . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the attractiveness of the United Kingdom as a location for telecommunications headquarters of internationally mobile companies . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what asssessment he has made of the contribution the road-building programme can make to reducing road casualties . |
| 8 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the impact on total tax revenues of the changes in the higher rate of income tax since 1979. 10 |
| 9 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the impact on total tax revenues of changes in the higher rate of income tax . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what assessment he has made of the resource implications for the health service in Scotland of the incidence of hypothermia in the winter months . |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what assessment he has made of the effect implementation of the EC social charter would have on unemployment in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimates he has made of the effect on the reactive capability of United Kingdom defence industries of a reduction in defence expenditure to the Western European Union average . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of community care provision for people with serious mental illness . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the internal market as the mechanism to determine the future pattern of health services in London . |
| 15 | He has spoken of the principle and the command . |
| 16 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 17 | He thought he 'd heard of the Box . |
| 18 | He 'd heard of the place . |
| 19 | Way back , he found the sketch he 'd made of the hide . |
| 20 | Returning to his old job , he 'd learned of the opportunity . |
| 21 | Under such pressure the hacker broke down and confessed : ‘ … he began to talk of the pleasure he got out of playing the weirdest experimental games with the computer … |
| 22 | He shuddered to think of the gold coin escaping from his life . |
| 23 | Presumably Shakespeare researched his play in Holinshed 's histories — but how could he have known of the eeriness of atmosphere available all around here ? |
| 24 | He kept thinking of the girl in Mu Chua 's House of the Ninth Ecstasy ; the singsong girl , White Orchid , who had looked so much like Vesa . |
| 25 | He continues to speak of the possibility of using the Gulf operation to craft a new world order for the resolution of disputes . |
| 26 | Mr MacKinlay said he had heard of the existence of a list of services , some of which appeared in The Observer newspaper yesterday . |
| 27 | A man in Canada wrote to say he had heard of the problem and was going to send a hundred dollars every month . |
| 28 | It was less than seventy-two hours since he had heard of the finding of Riddle 's clothes , but it seemed much longer . |
| 29 | In it he told the king that he had heard of the outbreak of war in Wales while ‘ ordering and attending to the state of my affairs in Champagne ’ . |
| 30 | He had heard of the loss , on her following voyage of HMS Reading . |