Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those gruesome robots which had restrained the trio — and the Astropath — reminded Jaq so strongly of images he had viewed of traitor legionnaires , the polluted renegades spawned by the would-be Emperor-slayers of long ago who now lurked in a certain terrible , twisted zone of the galaxy … |
| 2 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 3 | They were slanted somehow , and he recollected pictures he had seen of the early ancestors of the Manchu . |
| 4 | He is still deciding the kind of pictures he wants to take of Liverpool . |
| 5 | With one last cry she held him impossibly tight , her nails scoring his back , and knew even in her state of mindlessness that Leo had timed himself to her , that even in the grip of his own needs he had thought of her . |
| 6 | For a moment , as she had stood there , Davide noted how she truly recalled the virgin martyrs he had dreamed of , with her Easter cake as emblem , like the twin mound of her breasts St Agatha bears on a dish in heaven . |
| 7 | The house had been designed to make the most of natural materials , from the hand-hewn greenish slates of the roof to the cool grey stone walls which set off various shrubs and some of the roses he had spoken of . |