Example sentences of "[that] [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] of " in BNC.

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1 Now that Cadfael came to think of it , less than usual had been seen and heard of Jerome for the past few days , ever since the evening when he had been discovered on his bed , quaking and sick with bellyaches and headaches , and been soothed to sleep by Cadfael 's stomachics and syrups .
2 The prescription that Janice collected consisted of two syringes , each filled with a measured dose of the drug , ready to load into an autoinjector , a spring-loaded plastic ‘ gun ’ .
3 At 8am , the hospital formally announced that Conor had died of a heart attack .
4 Karamani Mehmed Pasa ( Grand Vezir 882–6/1477–81 ) , pupil of another scholar vanquished by Hocazade and therefore ill-disposed toward him , told Mehmed II that Hocazade had complained of the climate in Istanbul , saying that because of it he had forgotten the learned works he had memorized , and that he had praised the climate in Iznik .
5 The hat and coat had been delivered the previous evening by an officer of the Kha-Khan 's guard , and since the news of Jehana 's betrothal had been spread through the court hours earlier it had to be assumed that Artai had heard of it , and that either he was inclined to forgive the offence which might be supposed to exist , or else he was pretending that he was aware of none .
6 She was flattered and excited that Hugo had talked of their relationship to Eleanor : offended that her privacy had been thus violated .
7 But Miguel Rafaelo sat at the desk , looking through the files that Shelley had made of all the patients she had seen .
8 The official Soviet version of events was provided in 1957 by Andrei Gromyko , then Deputy Foreign Minister , who claimed that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in prison in 1947 , a date conveniently set before the end of the Stalin era .
9 Though you can not deny that Stalinvast needed cleansing of its parasites !
10 But there were those who said that Douglas had known of it and connived at it .
11 Moreover , it seems very likely that Anselm was referring to the search for relics conducted in secret by Osbern and Eadmer ; and it is also likely that Anselm had heard of the search from Eadmer himself .
12 As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate .
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