Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week Germany got rid of its constitutional right to political asylum , the most liberal in Europe . |
| 2 | Afterwards Grayling tried to think of some reason in the environment that might have had something to do with the outburst . |
| 3 | B. Chrystal has complained of broken glass in Bloomiehall Park . |
| 4 | In the USA Peter Drucker has talked of a ‘ pension fund socialism ’ : the workers , through their pension funds , ‘ own ’ a large part of private business and profits have become pensions , or ‘ deferred wages ’ , so that surplus value has disappeared . |
| 5 | Artist John Ward has said of the Prince 's work : ‘ He works for the love of it ; seriously , modestly , with much thought as well as appetite . ’ |
| 6 | Dr Ward has spoken of the potential effects on children who were unborn at the time of the incident . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the girlfriend of PC Williamson has spoken of her hate for the killers . |
| 8 | Mr Baker has spoken of the renewed ‘ need for American leadership ’ . |
| 9 | Nicandra tried to think of something pleasing to say : " Maman , do you think the Little Lord Jesus heard me ? " she came out with at last . |
| 10 | Eventually Nellie got rid of Percy Rimmer and replaced him with Robert Clarke , who did Tiller 's stage effects . |
| 11 | As Anne Corbett has observed of Frenchwomen , ‘ the successful Madame prefers to be le Docteur , le Professeur , l'Ambassadeur and le Philosophe , even with the succeeding il which is required in formal texts ’ . |
| 12 | Ivars has spoken of a Soviet based in the country who has been building what he terms a ‘ Sky Bug ’ but what we in the FlyPast office think must be a Flying Flea of sorts . |
| 13 | Iris Murdoch has spoken of novels as tending to be either crystalline or journalistic ; and the journalistic , which she practises , sounds like a free-wheeling and ever-hospitable realism : ‘ a large , shapeless , quasi-documentary object … telling with pale conventional characters some straightforward story enlivened with empirical facts . ’ |
| 14 | The forecast from Livorno has spoken of increasing winds and I laid out all the chain before we rowed ashore ( feeling curiously British and eccentric using oars among so many outboards ) for the pasta and wine we had been promising ourselves since mid-morning . |
| 15 | Apologies are unnecessary , for the technique and language developed by Freud has proved of very great value for anyone who works with ‘ disturbed ’ people , children or adults , in residential homes , or in individual therapy . |
| 16 | Now that Cadfael came to think of it , less than usual had been seen and heard of Jerome for the past few days , ever since the evening when he had been discovered on his bed , quaking and sick with bellyaches and headaches , and been soothed to sleep by Cadfael 's stomachics and syrups . |
| 17 | Donna let go of the door and allowed Ryker to grab her other hand . |
| 18 | My own flesh and blood and I 'm Dot interested to hear of her ? ’ |
| 19 | She foretold the invasion and defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 ; and Samuel Pepys ' Diary grimly records that Mother Shipton gave forewarning of the Great Fire of London in 1666 . |
| 20 | In 1990 his successor , Aslam Beg , leant on President Ishaq to get rid of Miss Bhutto . |
| 21 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 22 | Thoth interrupted his stream of self-justification with the sentiment that it agreed the eigen state theory was possible and then humorously pointed out that simply because Ewan had thought of it , it was infinitely more possible . |
| 23 | They even have a branch of M & S. Come to think of it , perhaps Grimshaw 's pavilion is the ideal location , come the autumn , for the first out-of-town branch of that great British enterprise to hit the Iberian peninsula . |
| 24 | Yet Alfred had chosen it as a place to die and David had said of his father : ‘ … for him it is one of those special places . ’ |
| 25 | David had heard of the Wilikinses ' divorce there had been quite a lot about the circumstances surrounding it in the Birmingham Mail — and he had been told of a second , short-lived marriage . |
| 26 | The Sex Pistols had , in part , achieved what Branson had expected of them . |
| 27 | By the time the gloom of evening began to settle in they had reached the river Travis had spoken of . |
| 28 | Mrs Blakey had spoken of anoraks , and the children had obediently collected these from their rooms . |
| 29 | By the end of May 1991 Treuhand had disposed of 18,500 of the 23,000 businesses for which it had assumed responsibility in July 1990 [ for criticism in April 1991 of Treuhand policy see p. 38155 ] . |
| 30 | He had threatened to shoot her , and Frankie had dreamed of her blood-stained body dumped in the cellar with all the dead pigs . |