Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rostov sorted through the physical descriptions which Burun had supplied of the principal members of the court and knew that he was addressing Va'na Khatun , once a slave and concubine , but now the wife of Arjun and grandmother to the wife of Burun 's own son Jotan . |
| 2 | Kitingan 's press adviser and nephew , Maximus Ongkili , deputy executive director of Sabah 's Institute for Development Studies which Mahathir had accused of fostering anti-federal feelings , was detained on Jan. 3 under the Internal Security Act , which allowed indefinite detention without trial . |
| 3 | ‘ Very much so , ’ Merrill said shortly , still piqued by the curtness with which Luke had disposed of the subject of Elise . |
| 4 | The Sex Pistols had , in part , achieved what Branson had expected of them . |
| 5 | From what Seb had seen of her body — and he had seen a great deal — he suspected it was not far from the truth . |
| 6 | Rachel racked her brains , trying to remember what Jamie had said of him — ruthless , living only for his ambition . |
| 7 | She had tried to do what Cara had asked of her . |
| 8 | From what Stephanie had seen of Bill lately , from what Frederica reported , his spirit was daunted , at least for a time . |
| 9 | Fran sat up straighter , feeling the flurry of unease that ran along her spine as once again she wondered what Luke had overheard of that conversation . |
| 10 | Weiss was Ritschl 's son-in-law , and had set out to investigate the theme of the kingdom of God in the synoptic gospels with a suspicion that it amounted to something rather different from what Ritschl had made of it . |
| 11 | One character in The Elder Statesman remarks , " Forgery … is a mug 's game " , which is precisely what Eliot had said of poetry twenty-five years before . |