Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard of the miracles of Saint Winifred , and the many pilgrims and rich gifts she has brought to Shrewsbury , and I dreamed of finding such a patroness to give new life to Ramsey . |
| 2 | One of the reasons why my partner and I disposed of our practice some years ago was the fact that the new legislation , particularly relating to investment business and the proposed audit regulations which were to come into force , was making practices less profitable , as it was impossible to pass all these extra costs on to the client . |
| 3 | I thought of Fringe and the Downs and wondered if I would ever ride in a race , and I thought of Ronnie Curzon and publishers and American rights and of Erica Upton 's reviews and it all seemed as distant as Ursa Major but not one whit as essential to my continued existence . |
| 4 | and I thought of a man who |
| 5 | I was very happy ; it was a personal best , and I thought of Clifford Mamba . |
| 6 | The shelves are full of wonderful food at this time of year and I thought of how I could binge and throw up all day long . |
| 7 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 8 | ‘ It is that hard , ’ he said ominously , and I thought of John Maggovertski 's sadness for a pretty girl who had whored herself to pay for the white powder . |
| 9 | and I thought of Sheila with her firstborn |
| 10 | I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play . |
| 11 | And I thought of what Jim Collins said when I heard what happened over at Stonham . |
| 12 | I looked down on those falls — ‘ the smoke that thunders ’ as the Africans used to call them , with the white plumes of spray towering above the bushes and trees ; and I thought of David Livingstone trudging , the first modern white man to find them . |
| 13 | Two days later in the Bay of Biscay we saw a whale blowing a jet of spray high in the air , and I thought of Moby Dick . |
| 14 | And I thought of the other man , the mysterious watcher . |
| 15 | ‘ I kept thinking today how lucky I was , you see , how blessedly fortunate , with all I have , all that is so comfortable , all that makes me so — so much happier than I was , and then this evening I went to the Rectory and when I returned I was in my room and I looked out at the darkness and I thought of you and how lonely you must be after all the company and society you have known just recently and I thought — I thought — ’ |
| 16 | And I thought of you . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah well we 've got a little antique box a jewellery box and it 's embossed the pattern round it , and the pattern round it is a boar hunt and it 's beautiful , there 's a little boar galloping his heart out with horsemen after him with spears and he 's all the way round the box and I thought of adding him on to the copper kettle you know as engraved all round the outside . |
| 18 | And I thought of putting something in the paper , asking anyone born on April the tenth that year at Thorn House to get in touch . |
| 19 | So I did n't know anybody and I thought of well , you know |
| 20 | And I thought of something else as well . |
| 21 | I 've seen it advertised how cheap it is and I thought of you . |
| 22 | In the end Frank and I met of our own volition . |
| 23 | I paused before replying to her , because if you pause before replying to people it gives them the foolish idea that you 've actually listened to what they 've said , and I said of course darling . |
| 24 | I knew of the need for fibre , fresh fruits and vegetables — even if I did n't much like them — and I knew of the dangers of saturated fats and too much salt . |
| 25 | The brothers had not been told , only Radulfus , Prior Robert , Hugh and I knew of it , leaving out of consideration Cynric 's boy , who runs errands faithfully , but barely understands what he delivers , and forgets his embassage as soon as done and rewarded . |
| 26 | Er it 's er it 's a ex W D lens , after wartime they sold these things they sold them in catalogues and I sent of for this one , and it 's about a stone and a half in weight . |
| 27 | I was there when British Telecom was privatised and I warned of the grave dangers in turning public monopolies into private monopolies . |
| 28 | After my first sight of him that sunny autumn morning in the gallery of the courtyard in the Palacio de Anaya , his face haunted me all day , and I dreamt of him during the night — a long , ecstatic dream of such acute sensual pleasure I woke up aching and exhausted by too much bliss . |
| 29 | The second cover of January 1992 , on the cover were Kingmaker and I dreamt of having sex with lead singer of Kingmaker , who is Loz |
| 30 | I remembered that German lad at er sat at side and I gave of one my gun buttons and he gave me this postcard . |