Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name of Carl August of Saxe-Weimar figured largely , but I had heard neither of him nor of it . |
| 2 | I had expected better of you . ’ |
| 3 | I had set a fashion but now I had to keep ahead of it , had to keep people wondering what I would wear next . |
| 4 | Pressed against Masha 's raincoated buxomness , I wondered at how unaccountably desire had all but vanished — though I had dreamed often of our reunion . |
| 5 | She had spoken affectionately of them and shown Lou a postcard from Italy where they were spending a holiday . |
| 6 | Next door , an old woman in her seventies read aloud to her ninety-two-year-old mother , as she had read aloud of an evening for decades ; their house had not been renovated , it belonged to another age . |
| 7 | She had to think only of the next few hours . |
| 8 | She had thought longingly of the candle left behind in Guy 's chamber , but had known better than to mention it . |
| 9 | When she had packed her bag at Betterhouse Vicarage on Friday morning , she had thought only of the holiday she had so badly needed . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you know who I am ? ’ she had demanded imperiously of a recently conscripted Bengali . |
| 11 | In Cairo , exhausted by the traumas of recent weeks , she had been concerned not only about the Shah and his morale , but also about their four children who had gone ahead of them to the states . |
| 12 | He was a man of strong ambition and had a doubtful reputation as an intriguer , but he was an able man who had deserved better of his party . |
| 13 | The rescript is of great utility in ensuring that the honour of a happily concluded marriage and indeed the faith of common children should not deceive a father who had thought better of the mother : therefore the emperor , most provident and most devoted to the cause of law , when he observed that the words of a trust were lacking , ruled by rescript that this expression should be treated as a trust . |
| 14 | I just wish that we had done more of it sooner . |
| 15 | They had gone ahead of their Australian guide and he did not have a chance to warn them the creature — usually docile — lived there . |
| 16 | Camille accused herself of lack of foresight and rapidly made up a yarn whereby they had thought better of the dinner-party and had spent the evening playing Monopoly at Tim 's place in a blameless fashion . |
| 17 | ‘ They had talked openly of their respective marital difficulties at Sandringham last Christmas , although the Duchess insists that they did not make a pact by which they would both end their marriages this year . ’ |
| 18 | Change was unstoppable and they had to stay ahead of the game . |
| 19 | Although throughout the preceding century case law decisions had narrowed its scope and denied its extension to any trade not in being at the time of its passage , it had remained nevertheless of great importance as a legitimating symbol of skilled labour 's " rights " . |
| 20 | He had risen ahead of her and was standing by the door now , pulling it open , inviting her to leave . |
| 21 | He had hinted darkly of rumours of police incompetence and attempts to smother establishment scandal . |
| 22 | There was much disenchantment with the policies of the past ; he had won by a landslide in the Electoral College ; his party controlled the Senate ; he had run ahead of quite a few southern Democrats in the House and he was clearly an exceptional performer on television . |
| 23 | Geoffrey said he had complained earlier of toothache . |
| 24 | He had done all of that , and she would always stand by him because of it . |
| 25 | He 'd looked around that shabby dwelling and smelled the poverty which he had vowed to help alleviate in his dedicated youth , and to his shame he had thought only of escaping from the fleas he might have picked up from that terrible straw mattress . |
| 26 | When a twelfth-century knight rode into a tournament or into battle he hoped to be worthy either of his lineage or of his lady ; earlier he had thought only of his ancestors . |
| 27 | He winked at me and then scowled as though he had thought better of it . |
| 28 | Lord Lovat attempted , without success , to replace one of his clansmen in his office of land waiter after he had been removed by the commissioners , without investigation , following a complaint that he had spoken disrespectfully of a supervisor . |