Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the period when admirers of ‘ trad ’ adopted a purist stance , listened rather than danced and frowned on anything slick or commercial or which smacked of the professional dance band . |
| 2 | ‘ But you made it perfectly clear that you disapproved of shipboard romances . |
| 3 | When I looked at all this stuff , it came to me that it was very interesting that they thought of Beauty as beautiful and Cruelty as cruel . |
| 4 | When I looked at all this stuff , it came to me that it was very interesting that they thought of beauty as beautiful and cruelty as cruel . |
| 5 | C. I. Lewis used to claim that basic beliefs were ‘ certain' or ‘ incorrigible ’ ( Lewis , 1952 and 1946 , ch. 7 ) ; it is not always clear whether he thought of these as the same as being infallible or not . |
| 6 | It is not precisely clear when he knew of the extra cases . |
| 7 | And I became interested when I heard of your interest in polio . |
| 8 | The tests are relatively simple but nobody thought of doing them before . |
| 9 | It struck me as incongruous when I heard of a parish church , in a commuter town south of London , which was to enact a nativity play . |
| 10 | And now , as he sat staring fixedly at the floral configuration on the faded green carpet , he felt a little sad as he thought of Laura , his wife for only the last couple of years . |
| 11 | Now Cézanne 's art , despite its use of simple , often almost geometrical forms , could never be described as conceptual although he did of course impose a very rigorous sense of pictorial order upon his subjects . |
| 12 | ‘ So Father was forced to make a choice between Mother , and his fiancée and Venice , ’ she said , her face soft as she thought of the power of romance . |
| 13 | And then Mrs Reed , whose health had been badly affected by worrying about her son , had suddenly fallen ill when she heard of his death . |
| 14 | Her voice was tight when she spoke of her mother 's people in the big house . |
| 15 | There was thirteen years difference between my elder sister and youngest brother — two girls and then three boys , of whom Basil was the eldest — and though this arrangement was not ideal when we came of an age to meet husbands among our brothers ' friends , it did mean that we all got along very well together and as sisters were not looked down upon by older and superior male beings as I often saw happen in other families . |
| 16 | I was sure that she consisted of two personalities , one innocuous and human , the other uncanny . |
| 17 | He dominated the conversation , holding the Hackett and Townshend women spellbound as he told of how he had broken up a white-slave ring in Dublin , and how he had rescued an innocent young girl from a fate worse than death . |
| 18 | Hughes established that 36% of the single thesis which she studied was unpublished because it consisted of raw analytical data . |
| 19 | It is unlikely that anyone thought of any of these possibilities when , in 1801 , a society was formed to investigate the nature and cure of cancer . |
| 20 | Asik became angry as he thought of all the people in his village who could have been saved by the fruit in the lorry which had just passed him , throwing up bucketfuls of dust into his face . |
| 21 | It was that the Pope grew angry and anti-Galileo when he learned of the events of 1616 , of which he had never been informed . |
| 22 | ’ Lewis was especially grateful that Coghill was so appreciative of Dymer 's ‘ spiritual experiences ’ ; and in particular that he approved of the theme of ‘ redemption by parricide ’ which Lewis feared ‘ would seem simply preposterous and shocking ’ . |
| 23 | He looked tired , but his face was clean and he smelled of pencils . |
| 24 | Her thoughts seemed slow and she complained of lack of energy and difficulty in staying asleep at night . |
| 25 | And my cheeks were red as I thought of those precious moments . |
| 26 | Jack grew dizzy as he thought of it , seeing them sitting with tall glasses on a shady patio and , strangely , seeing them too as they were now , untouched by the hand of time . |
| 27 | Mr Wareing said : ‘ I was outraged when I heard of the decision to condemn this poor fellow who earns £28 a day and is bereft of a bowler , which I think coloured the views of the Jockey Club . ’ |
| 28 | Bob Wareing , MP for Liverpool West Derby said : ‘ I was outraged when I heard of the decision to condemn this poor fellow who earns £28 a day and is bereft of a bowler which I think coloured the views of the Jockey Club . ’ |
| 29 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 30 | Smith was annoyed when he heard of the decision for a jump-off in Belfast this weekend which will determine who will join the team for the championships in Rome later this month . |