Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer . |
| 2 | Some years ago , I was censured following a public reading of a play I had written because of the behaviour of a female character in it . |
| 3 | She had lost her husband and all those she had loved because of Ireland . |
| 4 | When she was young and maybe a little wilful , Elizabeth had made what she deemed to be the right decision , and she had suffered because of it . |
| 5 | In 864 , the Edict of Pîtres ordered that peasants who had fled because of the Vikings should not be oppressed by counts or others in the places in which they had found refuge : they were to return home to their original lordships but they should be allowed to keep their earnings from working in the vineyards ; on the other hand , if they had married and fathered offspring while resident in others ' lordships , the wives and children were to remain with those lords . |
| 6 | Plummer argued that D was partly derived from a predecessor of the St Augustine 's chronicle , and that this was itself descended from an Abingdon manuscript which also lies behind C. He thus explained the presence in E of various entries on abbots of Abingdon which are also in C. Possibly an Abingdon version of the Chronicle was taken to Canterbury in 1044 when its abbot , Siward , replaced Archbishop Eadsige , who had resigned because of ill-health , or was subsequently sent there at Siward 's request . |
| 7 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 8 | They had stopped because of his need for rest . |
| 9 | They had died because of him . |
| 10 | ‘ It got pulled because of the murder . |
| 11 | The girl he got sacked because of . ’ |
| 12 | She had dismissed as rubbish Nina 's allegations that the men thought he was interested in her , but she had to admit he was good company , and for the next half-hour he entertained her with stories of his work in Australia , of the people he 'd met and of his excursions into the bush and to the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 13 | It had occurred because of an obsessive concern over the possibility that the President 's bid for re-election might just possibly fail . |
| 14 | He had been too afraid and shocked to go near it , and on that particular night he had cried because of his cowardice . |
| 15 | He said that he had acted because of lack of time , rather than insurmountable disagreement . |
| 16 | He had failed because of a lack of talent for impromptu speaking , considered essential for the task he was contemplating . |
| 17 | Rounding up the elephants and trying to count them was a hellish job , much more difficult than anyone had foreseen because of the vast area , the confusing vegetation and terrain , and the impossibility of labelling the beasts or keeping track of them once they had been found and counted once . |
| 18 | In those days I slept a great deal , and sometimes I dreamed : not of what had happened but of emptiness and occasionally of chaos when the tenuous mosaic that was life shattered into its constituent parts and whirled away into unknown infinities . |
| 19 | Three days later , Timothy rode to Yelton to tell Topaz what had happened and of the story which the marchioness had concocted . |