Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We engaged a third syce called Makonnen ; he turned out to be a quarrelsome intriguer and we eventually got rid of him . |
| 2 | So got rid of him at last , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and went in to the glass . |
| 3 | Only one in ten said that it had been suggested to them by a salesman , agent or someone at the shop ; about three-quarters said instead that they personally had thought of it , and most of the rest that it had been suggested by their wife or husband . |
| 4 | Grabow and Elliott therefore carried out an experiment similar to that of McAdam and Whitaker and found that movements of the tongue to left or right induced asymmetric scalp potentials which were not observed when subjects merely had to think of a word . |
| 5 | Mrs X had no idea what she had done wrong — I eventually came to know of this situation and arranged accommodation with an Asian family . |
| 6 | Say he somehow got to know of Aldhelm 's coming , even so by avoiding he could only delay recognition , not prevent it , he would have to reappear in the end . |
| 7 | I just got shot of that king . |
| 8 | So you just got rid of them . |
| 9 | Just got rid of all your cards ! |
| 10 | He felt he was going to climax early and desperately tried to think of other things to take his mind off it in order to last until she was ready . |
| 11 | His mind was racing now , beads of sweat standing out on his forehead , as he desperately tried to think of some way of alerting the pump attendant to his predicament without endangering them both . |
| 12 | Shah Jehan soon came to hear of Jahanara 's orgies , and according to Bernier , resolved to surprise his daughter in flagrante with one of her secret paramours : |
| 13 | So this was a new strange quantum number , and I think really what happened as new quantum numbers became necessary to describe the new types of particles , people just began to think of more sort of strange names like charm and beauty and erm things like this , but they have no real connection with what we normally understand by charm and beauty , they are just quantum numbers . |
| 14 | I just preferred to think of dead fish rather than Syl . |
| 15 | Now what it just said think of another way of saying that . |
| 16 | I quickly got rid of the tears and there Michael was , saying wonderful , encouraging things . |
| 17 | ‘ Ca n't think why we ever got rid of the old bat . |
| 18 | For most of the journey to Barnswick Ruth deliberately tried to think of nothing , to let her mind go blank . |
| 19 | They always seemed to smell of singed feathers when they came back . |
| 20 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 21 | Despite the material and social disadvantages that Harry had suffered as a child , he still seemed to think of those early years as happy ones . |
| 22 | ‘ I always heard tell of you that you were a wolf , but never that you were come so low as to prey on dead men . |
| 23 | Christopher 's serious childish voice , making that odd little pause between words , as if he still needed to think of them . |
| 24 | I also got rid of anything to , that mentioned morality |
| 25 | Men who had been seasonal workers formerly began talking of going stone-gathering and ditching during the winter . |
| 26 | He really did think of her as little more than a tramp . |
| 27 | This was a quite remarkable transformation in a man who only two years before had talked of dying : neither fame nor literary achievement had brought him any contentment , and in the end it was human love , the love that he had dismissed in his writings as the consolation only of ordinary men , that rescued him from a lifetime of misery and isolation . |
| 28 | He now had to think of a decisive way of finishing what he had tentatively started or he too ran the risk of losing face . |
| 29 | They even seemed to smell of wild animals . |
| 30 | And then , looking back at the pictures — sharp , full of insight , yet somehow slightly flashy — he wondered whether , indirectly , they did n't give him the best notion he yet had got of Walter Machin himself . |