Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Walpole , described in the same book ( p. 83 ) as someone who " thrived on gossip , and on playing at loo or at hazard with a duchess or two " , could very well have been a sufficiently astute observer of social mores to deduce that the first manifestations which he had seen of the new way of dressing constituted the beginning of a major trend . |
| 2 | Michael Heseltine said on Tuesday that Nigel Lawson was wrong to dismiss the deficit as a minor matter — something which he said smacked of ‘ socialist naivety ’ . |
| 3 | The Thaxted tradition which he established consisted of three features : firstly , a very thoroughgoing Christian socialism ; secondly , a marked attention to music and all that went with it ; and thirdly , a liturgiological care for distinctively English medieval antecedents . |
| 4 | The man who came in was wearing range clothes and carrying a saddle which he let go of just inside the door and came on , looking straight at me , but not smiling like he was ready to say something friendly . |
| 5 | I was everything he 'd dreamed of . |
| 6 | Although not something he had thought of himself , the adaptation grew in importance to him , the more he worked on it . |
| 7 | Stephen wanted the hotel to look as if it had always been there , part of the landscape , and Paul suggested a South American landscape architect , whom he had heard of . |
| 8 | Even if the desire is never satisfied in any but the fantasy way , the man who constantly has such desires is to be condemned , for he is gaining satisfaction from a person whom he has divested of personhood and turned into a slave . |
| 9 | He had decided to take this , the most spectacular , way round to Buttermere principally because of what he had heard of the rich wadd mines in Borrowdale valley — opened up only once in seven years , so he had heard , in order to control the market in this unique mineral which was useful over a remarkable range , from gunpowder to dyes . |
| 10 | Waiting to see what he had made of it all . |
| 11 | In praising the Nun 's Priest , however , he is limited to a motif of sexual worth that inescapably recalls the fabliau : which is what he had imagined of the Monk ( VII : 1945 ) . |
| 12 | What he had said of her had hardly been the words of love . |
| 13 | I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me . |
| 14 | He also said that the envelope the Brownie had kindly picked up had dropped from the Earl 's pocket without being noticed by him , and that as the Brownie was so kind as to share her sweets with him the Earl was sending a tin of his own , which he felt sure from what he had seen of this Brownie would find their way into the mouths of all the other Brownies in the Pack too . |
| 15 | As an ex-financial journalist , Lawson had opinions about the limitations of trial by jury formed by what he had seen of financial scandals when working as a City Editor . |
| 16 | Compared to what he had seem of the rest of the house , this was luxurious . |
| 17 | It was as painful as hell , and she despised herself for even caring what he had thought of Mark 's abilities , but for some reason she desperately needed to know . |
| 18 | I have the impression that the man in Edmund Wilson 's novel , I Thought of Daisy , did not like what he had learned of philosophy at college . |
| 19 | This was what he 'd wanted of her all the time ; now , he was finally getting to it , baiting the trap not with jewels or furs but with what he assumed would matter to her . |
| 20 | They 'd no internal passports in this tiny country , but from what he 'd seen of this building they had computers the like of which the Leningrad Militia could only dream about . |
| 21 | That was what he 'd thought of every morning since he 'd first started feeding them with Mrs Wright 's grain . |
| 22 | The Zuckerman books are a medley of differences and affinities between what we are able to infer about Roth 's life and what he has made of it in art . |
| 23 | It is this in fact that makes it possible to speak of man as a sinner , deserving judgement , because he is capable of guilt and bears responsibility for what he has made of himself ; and precisely here lies the point upon which God 's grace in Jesus Christ comes to bear . |