Example sentences of "of [det] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of this he offered in a variety of poetic forms , from the traditional quatrain to the more controversial prose-poem ‘ Friends ’ . |
| 2 | And worst of all he carried with him the sense that he had no right to life , no more than hundreds or thousands of others , starting with his family , who had not lived . |
| 3 | And so , Pilate he tries to do this , he tries first of all to shift the responsibility , and he does it by different methods , first of all he sends into Herod , the king then he suggests that Barabbas should be released to the people , now however , both of these methods of shifting responsibility have failed and the ball is firmly back with Pilate . |
| 4 | In 838 , both reacted to Charles 's promotion by plotting against the old emperor ; and when Louis the German answered his father 's summons to an assembly at Nijmegen in May , there was another unseemly row , which ended in the son 's being formally deprived of all he held outside Bavaria . |
| 5 | He became an encyclopaedia , a bore , a touchstone and a perennially reliable spring on the subject — most of all he brooded over what Fletcher Christian might have done — had he headed for Australia ? |
| 6 | Last of all he pays for it . |
| 7 | He had the art of lighting up the faces of those he met by a single kindly word , and so making them his admirers in a flash . |
| 8 | Other such terms , for example free , as in ‘ then we were free ’ , certainly had reference to the past , but carried direct contemporary reference : a man would say of another , ‘ he is a free man ’ , and mean that he took no orders from a superior ; and a man ( asked about his own occupation ) might say with some pride that he was a ‘ free Zuwayi ’ ( zuwayi hurr ) , and imply his condition was closer to the old days than that of most of those he saw around him . |
| 9 | Marty is a liar : Gabrielle is a fool : Henry isa whinge : Alan had it all wrong ’ ( they were some of those he talked to ) . |
| 10 | Whether we consider the rarity of the subjects , the speciousness of those he selected for his purpose , or the general production of the whole , England had not before produced any work , except the Hortus Elthamensis or Catesby 's Carolina , so superb and extensive , and in one respect Miller 's had an advantage , as they exhibited much more perfectly the separate figures of parts of fructification . |
| 11 | David as a child peoples his neighbourhood with its scenes and characters , including Gamaliel Pickle , Peregrine 's father , Commodore Trunnion , and Tom Pipes ; its story is the first of those he recounts to Steerforth at Salem House , DC 4 , 7 . |
| 12 | Faced with a slump in orders , or with any problems over the supply of raw materials , he simply could not employ many of those he needed in brisker times . |
| 13 | How those lenses pierced the hearts of those he spoke to , seeming to flay the skin and flense any fat to lay a person bare . |