Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where I thought of this part of the game as the worst , Ken positively savoured it . |
| 2 | It 's more than I saw of him . |
| 3 | Chemically-induced terror can be dispersed , I 've found , by concentrating on horrors in the real world , so I thought of That 's Life and VAT and Mrs Thatcher , and after a while I began to feel better . |
| 4 | However , I thought too much excitement was not good for him , so I talked of other things , and made him laugh a little . |
| 5 | He asked me if I knew of anyone to replace her and I told him no . |
| 6 | God knows I do n't want to rot here if I knew of a way out , surely that 's plain . ’ |
| 7 | If I had of done you would have been thinking , Ooh ooh ooh ooh . |
| 8 | er , you know proper algebra and all that kind of stuff and it , and it was , I think I would of been better if I had of gone to Our Ladies cos I do n't |
| 9 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
| 10 | Until I came of age he wanted the pictures to be in his ex-wife 's custody . |
| 11 | In my case you get pregnant at every verse end , cos I came of a big family you see , mm . |
| 12 | Cos I thought of them as rough but |
| 13 | And it was quite ni actually although I was hurrying because I thought of them sitting in the car erm it was very pleasant walking , very slippery though along by Walford cemetery and all down there . |
| 14 | it was fine , I thought right get up and get them bloody curtains washed , I had 'em on the line , but do you think our Mike noticed them , well when he came home from work , because I thought of having to put 'em back up again , I just |
| 15 | She spoke of painting and antiquities while I thought of rivers , dark faces and the shadowed cloisters of the convent . |
| 16 | I have preferred Irish humour ever since I heard of the Dublin man visiting London who wrote to his wife … ‘ and if you do not receive this letter you are to let me know at once ! ’ |
| 17 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I left college in ‘ 76 , and subsequently hustled around for about four months working for various people , before I heard of a second assistant 's job coming up with David Thorpe . |
| 19 | I could see a lot more of George , I thought , before I tired of him . |
| 20 | I think I must have suffered as you before I knew of things relating to sex . |
| 21 | ‘ -if I knew of the lady 's death before Monday morning , I learnt of it from Monsieur de Craon . ’ |
| 22 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
| 23 | How this can be done I have tried to elucidate when I wrote of hostility and anger , the depressive and schizoid positions . |
| 24 | My curiosity was first aroused some ten years ago when I heard of something being called the ‘ Freshwater Moray Eel ’ . |
| 25 | And I became interested when I heard of your interest in polio . |
| 26 | It struck me as incongruous when I heard of a parish church , in a commuter town south of London , which was to enact a nativity play . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , Ellen , ’ she said , ‘ I cried bitterly when I heard of Catherine 's death , you know . |
| 28 | Nietzsche wrote : " When I heard of the fires in Paris , I felt annihilated for some days and was overwhelmed by fears and doubts ; the whole academic ( wissenschaftlich ) , philosophical , artistic world seemed an absurdity , if a single day could wipe out the most glorious works of art , even whole periods of art ; I clung with earnest conviction to the metaphysical value of art , which can not exist for the sake of poor human beings , but has higher missions to fulfil . " |
| 29 | I d I know that , there 's that phrase you know , we will never see his like again , I think we probably will , but it will be a very long time , and I can not tell you the infinite feeling of sadness erm , that I felt when I heard of his passing . |
| 30 | Mr Wareing said : ‘ I was outraged when I heard of the decision to condemn this poor fellow who earns £28 a day and is bereft of a bowler , which I think coloured the views of the Jockey Club . ’ |