Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first case a woman is seeking compensation for the death in 1962 of her 10-month-old daughter from leukaemia ; the girl 's father worked as a fitter at Sellafield for nearly 30 years and has since also died of cancer . |
| 2 | While it might look a bit strange , even antiquated , to anyone who has only ever thought of guitar tuners as pocket sized oblong boxes with LEDs or a needle and a retail price of around forty quid , the Peterson 's ability to accurately tune any musical instrument is known throughout the music industry . |
| 3 | The bath and basin were pink and there were bottles and jars of bath salts and essences she 'd never even heard of . |
| 4 | That 's a division I 'd never even heard of before . |
| 5 | I 'd never even heard of Killerton until I started working for the Trust , but when I was at Drogo I used to come across here fairly regularly because of the regional office being here and because I was just interested . |
| 6 | They 'd never even heard of it before . |
| 7 | In the event of my dying before remarriage , I DEVISE and BEQUEATH all of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever not already disposed of as to my freeholds in fee simple and as to my personal estate absolutely to the issue of my union with JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , the property to be held in trust for the said issue , the trust allowing monthly sum of not less than FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL to pay for the upbringing of the said issue , this arrangement to cease on his or her attaining the age of twenty-one years , whereupon a quarter of the remaining estate — whether in freehold property , stocks , shares or chattels shall be granted in perpetuity to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , and the remainder to be granted to the said issue . |
| 8 | Because they 're almost there — unlike previous white soul or funk aspirants like Kevin Rowland or A Certain Ratio who fell so far shod of their ambitions they inadvertently created something different , these groups have , through graft and expense , come close , and so clog the second division of pop-soul . |
| 9 | The way in which the term 'sand " is picked up and used without explanation is characteristic of this novel , which demands the closeness of reading more usually required of verse . |
| 10 | In some tropical waters there is no mixing of top and bottom waters and vast reaches of ocean remain almost permanently deprived of plankton . |
| 11 | At first the spy thought he had stumbled on something worth investigating : Wordsworth carried a telescope , and Coleridge was surveying the river ( he was in fact making notes for a projected long poem , The Brook ) ; furthermore , Coleridge 's oft-repeated references to ‘ Spy Nosy ’ were assumed by the Home Office spy to be aimed at him personally — he had presumably never heard of Spinoza , the philosopher of the moment . |
| 12 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I 've only just thought of it . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't actually say that I view his piano playing as if he 's a miniature mixture of Oscar Peterson , Oscar Borge , Chico Marx , Russ Conway and Les Dawson , because I 've only just thought of that . |
| 14 | So tiny I 've only just thought of it . ’ |
| 15 | I , no I 've only just thought of it , I 'd take it with me if , if we 'd seen it . |
| 16 | But advice workers in Middlesbrough said they had only just heard of the drug and had no reports of its presence in the county . |
| 17 | I had read none of them , and had only vaguely heard of one , Edna O'Brien . |
| 18 | I had only recently heard of the existence of such places , but I gradually came to the conclusion that she was running a small brothel of which she herself was the centre of interest . |
| 19 | What I had so far seen of Binbrook held no charms for me — it was bare , isolated , and I did n't really want to seek out yet another Met Office with another set of people to get to know , now that the war was over , and there was no reason that I could see for us to continue plotting charts and reading instruments . |
| 20 | Kind he might be , although it seemed improbable from what she had so far seen of him , but Sally-Anne wanted nothing from men , neither kindness … nor love … nor anything . |
| 21 | Absent also was Leofwine , who had taken Thorfinn for King as Cormac had , or so it seemed , on the glorious journey to and from Rome , and who had stood trembling as Cormac had on the steps of St Peter 's , one of a brotherhood that had seemed to promise a future none of them had so far dreamed of . |
| 22 | Of 1,250 people quizzed , three quarters had not even heard of it . |
| 23 | In the event , however , she had not even thought of doing so . |
| 24 | ‘ I had not even thought of it . ’ |
| 25 | Alex wished she had not immediately thought of Matthew Prescott , who was not only emphatically not her new man , but unlikely to be any kind of man at all , as far as she was concerned . |
| 26 | Sandra , come to no good , had not consciously thought of ‘ home ’ for a long time . |
| 27 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 28 | But Soviet leaders had not yet conceived of extending such formally guaranteed zones , as opposed to the looser idea of ‘ zones of peace ’ , to Third World regions . |
| 29 | He said Nicola had not yet talked of her reasons for running away from her farmhouse home near Biddulph , Staffordshire . |
| 30 | He had frankly given no thought whatsoever to the child 's name ; he had not yet thought of him as an identity anyway . |