Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] of [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BMC national officer Roger Payne explained that the policy at the BMC is to try and give funding to experienced groups of British climbers attempting the sort of peaks which provide a strong technical challenge but are unlikely to get commercial sponsorship , simply because no-one apart from climbers has ever heard of them . |
| 2 | It 's so delicious , you 'll wonder why no one has ever thought of it before ! |
| 3 | Nevertheless , she prevaricated as she said , ‘ Aunt Bertha has often thought of you — wondering if you 're all right — ’ |
| 4 | Luke has often spoken of you . |
| 5 | Wel it does n't get a great deal of publicity in the media , and of course we only circulate information about it to schools , so I 'm sure that the man in the street probably has never heard of it . |
| 6 | ‘ When you talked it was like you 'd just thought of it . |
| 7 | I did n't think that was bad , considering I 'd just thought of it . |
| 8 | He 'd always thought of her as pliable , sexy , more of an ornament than a partner for a man like Adolph Brückner . |
| 9 | He 's quite good-looking in a film-starry way — I 'd always thought of him as young . |
| 10 | As John struggles to find another plectrum , I mention that I 'd always thought of him as a fingerstyle player … |
| 11 | I do n't suppose they 'd ever heard of us . |
| 12 | Then he got talking about you , asked me if I 'd ever heard of you . ’ |
| 13 | I was amazed you 'd even heard of it , to tell the truth . ’ |
| 14 | It was a surprise because I 'd barely thought of her since I was fucked by her dog , an incident with which she had become associated in my mind : Helen and dog-cock went together . |
| 15 | ‘ I told you I 'd never heard of him . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ They did n't want to admit they 'd never heard of him . |
| 17 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 18 | I walked into this little club on the highway and I 'd never heard of them before , but there was this great , white blues band . |
| 19 | ‘ I rang up Scotland Yard to tell you something this morning , and they 'd never heard of you . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And , for your information , I 've long wished that I 'd never heard of you — or your wretched grandmother . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd never heard of it before in relation to dogs but our vet was wonderful . |
| 22 | He 'd never heard of it . |
| 23 | I 'd never heard of it before , yet it 's so easy to catch — I got it purely from food . |
| 24 | I 'd never heard of it . |
| 25 | Well er I 'd never heard of it . |
| 26 | I 'd never heard of it . |
| 27 | She 'd never thought of him as that sort of man . |
| 28 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 29 | Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before . |
| 30 | ‘ I wish I 'd never thought of it . |