Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although still used for storage , the mill is slowly deteriorating and largely silent , long since stripped of its fulling stocks , its Boulton and Watt steam engine and water wheels . |
| 2 | Pitts Mill , now sometimes known as Oaklands Farm Mill , has been luckier and has , at least structurally , survived , although long since stripped of its manufacturing machinery . |
| 3 | For some time , the mill stood idle and decaying , but was eventually stripped of its machinery and converted to two cottages . |
| 4 | It is regarded as essential that the client is expressly reminded of his freedom of choice of solicitor . |
| 5 | Feasting her eyes on him as he quickly enclosed his nether limbs , Gina was forcibly reminded of their first meeting . |
| 6 | He scowled and once more she was forcibly reminded of his Viking heritage , the cold , hard power that had fortified the Norsemen as they had bounded from their makeshift camps intent on conquest . |
| 7 | This week , the ageing lothario was horrified when a cloth-capped pensioner pursued him down a street , wreathed in smiles and waving an autograph book , The Rolling Stone coldly ignored him , appalled at being associated with a gummy grandad and perhaps being all too forcibly reminded of his own advancing years . |
| 8 | On Coricancha , the Inca sun temple , the Spaniards imposed the church of Santo Domingo : yet Coricancha , though long stripped of its golden sheathing , was still Samson — blinded , chained , but with all his dignity intact . |
| 9 | I 've only heard of it at the fashion college . |
| 10 | The Butcher remained a vivid memory because , apart from my ordeal , I was constantly remanded of him by the dangerous wobbling of my pipe at the edge of that needless gap in my mouth . |
| 11 | Since it was obviously expected of him , he took his right hand off the wheel and put his arm around her shoulders . |
| 12 | He thought : He has acquired the mystique of the story-teller and , glancing at the ring of fire-lit and intent faces , he was suddenly reminded of his first village school , of the children clustered round Miss Douglas at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon for the half hour of story-time , and felt a pang of pain and regret for those lost days of innocence and love . |
| 13 | So far this is normal and to be expected , but if Claire is told often enough how good she is when she feels herself to be bad , or if Henry is constantly reminded of his vicious streak when he is aware of other , ignored qualities in himself , then both Claire and Henry are likely to become confused as to their own self-images . |
| 14 | We have been constantly reminded of our 25th anniversary by the Official Opening Ceremony on Saturday 29th August , the Service of Thanksgiving in the Church of the Holy Rude , the Logie Kirk Commemoration of the University Mace , a prestigious series of public lectures , concerts , exhibitions , parties of all kinds and , yet to come , the Silver Jubilee Graduation Ball in early July . |
| 15 | His comment suggests that it is almost as if , when someone woke up in the morning , they were suddenly possessed of something mysterious in becoming conscious , like a metaphysical virus . |
| 16 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 17 | Human life was not necessarily robbed of its meaning by being incorporated into the natural system . |
| 18 | Despite the constent media bollocks about the scum the one criticism constantly made of them is their lack of a truly great passer like Macca or Strach . |
| 19 | He hath much talked of you . |
| 20 | Harvey suddenly thought of something else . |
| 21 | Juliet suddenly thought of something else . |
| 22 | Mouse suddenly thought of his stomach as having a big red circular target on it with HIT THERE printed in the centre . |
| 23 | The two rowdy West Indians obviously thought of themselves as wits of the first order and they were able to make the fat lady respond to their nonsenses with weird bursts of laughter . |
| 24 | I doubted it because whatever the efficacy of Dr Gyggle 's treatment and however convincing his explanation of how a lonely and fucked-up boy built up a delusion both to compensate for the lack of a father and punish himself for his own Oedipal crime , I still could n't convince myself that I was entirely rid of my mage . |
| 25 | To do what I do well , be proud of it , and watch it knowing that it was bloody good and entirely born of me . ’ |
| 26 | But nothing was hitherto known of their work . |
| 27 | We should look behind the artificially magnified scope of the devil to discover he is not so deserved of our admiration as once we supposed . |
| 28 | Something unforeseen and urgent had happened , since Sean had obviously known of it yesterday afternoon , and there had been no opportunity for him to inform her . |
| 29 | Or so terrified of what she knew she could no longer hold back ? |
| 30 | McIllvanney suddenly demanded of me in his sour Belfast accent . |