Example sentences of "the [noun] had [adv] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was something the authorities had never dreamt of doing . |
| 2 | If an accident happens as a result of driving which deviates from the proper standard , then that may well be a case of negligence even if the driver had never thought of the risk in that particular case , because the driver is presumed to know the Highway Code . |
| 3 | The Pétains had never boasted of a military tradition . |
| 4 | Just as Paul the apostle had once written of being ‘ transported into the third heaven ’ in a mystical experience of God , so mother and son were united in their desire for God . |
| 5 | The herd had once consisted of 150 animals . |
| 6 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 7 | And the bullets in the gun in the watch-tower above , they 're real … and the cold , and the sentence of the court which has fourteen years to run , and the worst luck that the Consul had ever heard of … they 're real . |
| 8 | The discovery was made in 1984 , and a search of the churchyard at that time showed that the vast majority of the memorials had either disappeared of become illegible . |
| 9 | Also , by the time of publication , the world had already heard of Hawking 's genius ; FRS at 32 and Lucasian Professor ( Newton 's former chair ) at 37 ; a brilliant mind trapped by motor neurone disease in an ever-wasting body . |
| 10 | But the novelists had never heard of Marx and Engels — and if they had heard of them and their ideas , they would probably have recoiled in horror , perceiving the threat to their own privileged position . |