Example sentences of "he had [adv] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yoshida was a former diplomat of Anglophile inclinations ; he had firmly disapproved of the ascendancy of the military before and during the Pacific War and had been imprisoned in the latter part of the war . |
| 2 | He had completely forgotten that this was his twenty-first birthday and that he had finally come of age . |
| 3 | He had already heard of us on the river grapevine , about our journey upriver with Muhammad and Milhaez and Romany . |
| 4 | Shill 's suggestion that his wife committed suicide was dashed by the evidence of Dr Norris , who insisted that most of the head injuries would have been impossible to achieve by someone attempting suicide and that , in the annals of crime , he had yet to hear of a case where a person attempted suicide by bashing his head with a flat iron . |
| 5 | He walked slowly up the familiar road admiring the shops he had once dreamed of owning . |
| 6 | Then he sat down and typed a letter to every agony aunt he had ever heard of . |
| 7 | And stood very still and waited — and prayed to every god he had ever heard of that the Robemaker would not utilise the dread Stroicim Inchinn and read into his mind . |
| 8 | This was the first thought he had ever had of the commune , it was at that moment it first came to him , out on the terrace sitting beside Rufus under Hilbert 's umbrella , while the Vermstroy man hunted his quarry along the woodland streams and Mary pursued him with cries of protest . |
| 9 | ‘ I still think you should try marrying Peg , ’ Fred said , starting for the door and giving Arthur as sharp a seizure as he had ever had of longing and hatred for an ally who was deserting him to go to sleep . |
| 10 | Oh , yes ? ' ) asking him whether he had ever thought of going round the world in 80 days . |
| 11 | He had often thought of a tattoo himself . |
| 12 | When Mountbatten flew off to India , he thought of himself as he had always thought of himself , as a leader of men . |
| 13 | At least , so Marco said , and expatiated freely on the idea of a performance he had always thought of mounting there , a mood piece , a son et lumière . |
| 14 | Ben studied his brother — the man he had always thought of as his father and saw suddenly that it did not matter what he was in reality , for Hal Shepherd had become what he believed he was . |
| 15 | He had always thought of it as a superficial and outmoded gesture found only in old novels . |
| 16 | He turned down flat the king 's ransom , the pot of gold , the answer to his poverty-prayers he had always dreamt of . |
| 17 | It was like a slap in the face , the insult so unexpected , and the revelation of what he had really thought of her all along was so hurtful , so callous that she went rigid in his arms , white with stiff dignity , eyes brilliant with pain . |
| 18 | Yet , when I was seven years old , I should have thought him a very silly little boy indeed not to have understood about metaphorically speaking , even if he had never heard of it , and it does seem that what he possessed in the way of scientific approach he lacked in common sense . |
| 19 | He had never heard of God … |
| 20 | Abrams , who said he had never heard of such a thing before , asked him no more about them . |
| 21 | Calero said he had never heard of it , except to read about it : ‘ Was that the one we were supposed to blow up on the high seas ? ’ |
| 22 | Tawell , who was deeply affronted that such a respectable businessman should be arrested on such a charge , exclaimed that he had never heard of Sara Hart , nor of Salt Hill , and he had definitely never been there . |
| 23 | and to appear in court , he found himself caught up in a drama in which he had been cast as The Defendant , facing the man he had known as Rich whom everyone called The Plaintiff , and being called to order by someone he had never heard of before called The Registrar and his right hand man The Clerk of the Court — and all in the unfamiliar setting ( set ) of a courtroom . |
| 24 | He said that he had never heard of ‘ the place ’ [ the seat of Compton or Burnett ancestors ] . |
| 25 | If I did not add this information , I felt I should be told that he had never heard of M. Guérigny . |
| 26 | Eight hours ago he had never heard of any of them , now he was thinking of them by their first names : Francis , Edwin , Beryl , Anna , Cathy … |
| 27 | He had never heard of anyone actually reaching the German trenches , so he was n't sure what he was supposed to do next , and despite all the training he still found it hard to shoot on the run . |
| 28 | Now , as he stumbled towards the window of his room , he recognized that resentment lay behind his disbelief : resentment that his friendship with Dysart might have an origin he had never dreamed of ; that , in lending him a helping hand whenever he could , Dysart had merely been slumming . |
| 29 | With Chris he had known a joy he had never dreamed of . |
| 30 | He had never talked of it with anyone else . |