Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 2 | Archaeologists from Newcastle University have already made a number of test excavations at the site of the extension and found nothing of historical value . |
| 3 | He found plenty of thickish sticks and picked up far more than he needed . |
| 4 | They found plenty of common Church interests and then friendship ; they had conversations , which Ramsey enjoyed enormously , about matters political as well as religious ; Ramsey went over to Garrowby several times for meals or to stay the night and celebrate the sacrament in the morning ; and he conducted Halifax 's funeral at Kirby Underdale in 1959 . |
| 5 | Switching between the different combinations of effects and processors produced the same results , and apart from inventing some really stupid effect chains I found plenty of interesting combinations ; these could be mixed with the dry signal without losing any of the basic guitar sound . |
| 6 | It seems to me that this is something on which er not en passant but within the flow of his report Dr Stuart mentioned something of great importance and I was jotting down for myself , by way of aide memoire , membership , Madagascar , ministry of the whole people of God , three Ms as it were . |
| 7 | They might have mislaid the formula for operating over five days — December 1986 is the last time England beat anyone of any consequence when asked to bat and bowl for longer than 55 overs — but there is no getting away from their ability to play the negative stuff as well as anyone else . |
| 8 | Partly because the financial fun enriched lots of powerful people in Japan . |
| 9 | To the right of the steps was the gas cooker , a black monster which provided lots of hard work to keep it clean and at the side of this stood my father 's wooden tool chest . |
| 10 | red and white scarf got plenty of other reds |
| 11 | Kate said the evening had been a great success : it received plenty of local press coverage , the Rossendale Group increased its membership , and the Mayor agreed to donate £100 to Amnesty . |
| 12 | ‘ We played plenty of pretty football at Spurs , but it was n't good enough because we just did n't threaten them ‘ We will The side I put out on Wednesday night will have to be positive . |
| 13 | Leicestershire won by 133 runs IN MAKING a laudable attempt to sustain interest in a foreshortened contest at Fenner 's , Leicestershire learnt something of long-term disadvantage : their spin-bowling is not of county championship quality . |
| 14 | But when I rejected everything of this sort to set myself to one purpose , my soul was absorbed with love for my Maker . |
| 15 | In response to the pills question , one pupil found that 50 pills weighed 1 g and then added lots of 50 pills until 250 was reached . |
| 16 | I meant to ask her about it this afternoon , but she 'd lots of other people there . |
| 17 | I can confirm that , of course , I made none of those statements , but I believe that each of them can be attributed to the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 18 | At school lunches she showed none of this nonsense , nor was it displayed at home when she ate informally in front of the television in the evening . |
| 19 | ‘ We heard nothing of that kind , ’ I said . |
| 20 | We discovered plenty of small fish . |
| 21 | Alas for Waldron , his Wales achieved none of these aspirations , least of all the last and , as the recent French match showed , to this day muddled decision-making infects Welsh play . |
| 22 | So if it achieved anything of lasting value , the sheer slog of the marathon Guinness trial clearly underlined the shortcomings of the present system and showed why reform was necessary . |
| 23 | Yet again we went down towards our car and followed lots of other cars off the boat . |
| 24 | I thought nothing of that incident until , maybe a year later , there it was installed and detailed in my mind . |
| 25 | And our love does not depend on anything , though for years we saw nothing of each other , still we should love . |
| 26 | On his second voyage , in the winter ( May–June 1819 ) , he saw nothing of New South Shetland . |
| 27 | I never saw nothing of that Miss Baird , only Mr Forbes standing there like he says , and Jessie right beside him . ’ |
| 28 | The new Welf candidate was Otto , brother of the count Palatine Henry , a man who knew nothing of imperial affairs . |
| 29 | She knew nothing of financial matters and had acted quite reasonably in placing her trust and confidence in a motor trader who had a good reputation in the area . |
| 30 | They got on with their lives , did n't interfere , knew nothing of human quarrels , obeyed natural laws without any chicanery . |