Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] of [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the United States boasted of its capacity for ‘ overkill ’ — another euphemism in the nuclear vocabulary — as if to wipe out one 's adversary several times over could only make the world a safer place . |
| 2 | Lord Ribblesdale thought of his grandparents ' house as ‘ my second home . ’ |
| 3 | Next day Wilfrid spoke of his disquiet to an old friend , Dick Thompson , the Registrar of Criminal Appeals , and he , having read the book , felt a similar concern . |
| 4 | Lucy spoke of her life , Jay wanted to hold her and hug the hurt away . |
| 5 | Yesterday exactly a week after he suffered serious leg and arm injuries on a country road at Stillington Jason told of his nightmare which started when he was accused of seeing Pringle 's ex-girlfriend , Leanne Rees . |
| 6 | John 's wife Sheila told of her shock when she woke to find a gun trained on them at their home in Bromley , Kent . |
| 7 | As she walked Maggie thought of her father whose body had been one of the last recovered . |
| 8 | Neither Salinger nor Ross knew of my role in Cyprus as a DIA agent , and I certainly did n't tell them . |
| 9 | The bomb went off when Carol learned of her trip being cancelled . |
| 10 | When Nigel learned of their whereabouts , he began to hunt them down with the aid of his yeomen . |
| 11 | Mr Hall said of his resignation : ‘ It was my decision . ’ |
| 12 | Last night , Mr Hall said of his resignation : ‘ It was my decision . ’ |
| 13 | Struggling to contain his emotions , a shattered Wilfred Ball said of his son Johnathan 's death : ‘ This should be the last tragedy of all . ’ |
| 14 | As Stephen talked of his intention of having the bog fenced off immediately , Tamar sat by her dressing table while Tempy brushed her hair . |
| 15 | As the Citation jet crossed into Soviet airspace , above the radio beacon at Myatyalyay where Poland borders with Russia , Duncan thought of his grandfather . |
| 16 | Not even Paul Lane knew of its existence , although he was clever enough to have guessed it might be there . |
| 17 | Sgt Forth died of his injuries after being called to a disturbance at a house in Gateshead , 12 days ago . |
| 18 | June and Robert Braithwaite complained of their inability to communicate . |
| 19 | Lady Braithwaite spoke of her memories of the early days when Molly and her mother were even then busy trying to find suitable material in the right shad of blue for Medau tunics . |
| 20 | yeah , well let me just read you two or three verses from Exodus , chapter forty , this is what it says then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle the sons of Israel would set out , but if the cloud was not taken up then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up , for throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day and there was fire in it by night , in the sight of all the house in Israel and if you were to turn over to kings you 've got a , you 've got a similar thing there with the dedication of the temple and as Be Ben was saying the power really it 's the it 's the presence of God , the shine , the glory , that cloud of , and so what , what , what catches the Lord Jesus up is really the glory of God here he is , the , the riseness , the glorified Christ being called up into heaven in the , in the glory , what he 's been glorified , so he withdraws his physical , physical presence from one place here on earth to present there on the throne and yet by the holy spirit to be every where now Jesus then , he did n't cease to be truly man at either his resurrection or at his ascension , he stays man , God , the God man all the way through and it 's still true today he is the God man today and that 's important for you and me , think of the very worse experience that you have ever had in your life , think of the very worse experience that could happen to you , with the exception of you know that of , of say total failure of some awful sin , the worse thing , maybe a loss of someone dear to you , someone very close to you , er , er , a bereavement , the most awful experience you have had well he has gone through , he has known that experience , he has , has tempted in all points like as we are he knows our frame , he remembers were dust and he has been there and it is a man who has experienced those same experiences that you and I experience day by day , year after year , it is a man who has gone that , who has walked that path , who is in heaven interceding and praying for us , we 'll stop there cos time has gone erm we 'll stop there , we wo n't go on otherwise I 'll get into trouble During this past month some of the questions in the New Testament , the first one we looked at you remember was that question that Jesus asked of his disciples , do you believe that I am able to do this , then we looked at a question which the disciples asked of Jesus , why could we not cast it out last week we looked at another question , are only a few people going to be saved and this morning I 'd like us it 's the final one of these questions not that there are n't other questions in the New Testament and scores , scores of others but were just looking at four er throughout this month , I 'd like us to look this morning for one at , for a few minutes , at one that Jesus asked of a man who confronted him , I 'd like to read a few verses from Luke chapter eighteen , Luke chapter eighteen I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , it 's the well known account of blind Bartimaeus , Luke chapter eighteen and verse thirty five and he came about that as Jesus was approaching Jericho a certain blind man was sitting by the road begging , now hearing a multitude going by he began to inquire |
| 21 | Mr Craven thought of his dream , and decided to return to England immediately . |
| 22 | We had known one another less than a year , all Paris knew of our passion , and he chose three months in the company of Du Camp ! |
| 23 | Tensions were already running very high in Croatia following the deaths on March 31 of two people in a gun battle between Serb separatists and Croatian police in the Plitvice National Park ; a third Serb died of his wounds on April 2 . |
| 24 | Though the shooting on the film set , if it was n't accidental , implied that Nigel Steen knew of his involvement , he still might not have realized the direct connection with Jacqui , and certainly was no nearer getting the Hereford Road address . |
| 25 | Anguished Bernadette spoke of her ordeal since Mr Onanuga left home 16 days ago . |
| 26 | You will recall that Mrs Carrington spoke of her husband losing his rationality , and yet that he wanted to retain control over his fate . |
| 27 | Bamford wrote of his parish church in the eighteenth century : " every one in those days admitted that there was not a rood of earth around it which was not redolent of supernatural associations " . |
| 28 | Mozart wrote of its success to his mother : |
| 29 | In an interview on Channel 4 's Hard News programme , to be shown tonight , Viscountess Althorp said of her experiences of tabloid journalists : ‘ I think they 're really totally insensitive , evil people . ’ |
| 30 | FILM director Woody Allen has seen the video tape his former lover Mia Farrow made of his daughter claiming he abused her . |