Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | These various schemes proved problematic , however , and little came of Coxe 's ambitions , though they were briefly the subject of government interest in 1719 , when the question arose of the English title to this part of America . |
| 2 | cos trolley buses , in this town were really the erm well I suppose they really came about , rather than motor buses right at the start because built trolley buses and so did of Laiston . |
| 3 | As McFarlane so aptly and untruthfully said of the Saudi contribution , ‘ the concrete character of that is beyond my ken . ’ |
| 4 | The main task is to establish the nature of the tragic chorus , since it is clear from the ancient tradition that tragedy originated in the chorus and once consisted of nothing but the chorus . |
| 5 | With great glee Odd-Knut told us that the fat Germans showered ten times every day for a week and still reeked of rotten whale . |
| 6 | I do wonder if the King 's mad gallop through a storm-blown night finally unhinged his mind and so he caused the King 's death and later died of a broken heart ? |
| 7 | It shows a street child who was beaten by four Guatemalan police officers in 1990 and later died of his injuries . |
| 8 | Our non-fusion polypeptide spanned VZV 140k codons 417 to 646 and mainly consisted of the highly conserved region 2 , designated on the basis of homology between the HSV-1 Vmw175 and the VZV 140k proteins ( 18 ) . |
| 9 | As to the neighbourhood which had hesitated to acknowledge the railroad in its straggling days , that had grown wise and penitent , as any Christian might in such a case , and now boasted of its powerful and prosperous relation . |
| 10 | Some social scientists did : most ignored the debate because it was , frankly , naive ( and often consisted of nothing more than special pleading from scientists working for institutions that had much to lose ) . |
| 11 | The composer , Edward Elgar , for example , needed the solitary paths of the countryside around the Malvern Hills and often spoke of hearing songs and sounds not heard by others . |
| 12 | My parents remembered her and often spoke of her , saying that her flight was as beautiful as an autumn sunset . |
| 13 | He picked them up and courteously enquired of the young woman sitting closest with her boyfriend if they were hers . |
| 14 | Fru Møller , who resented the embargo on her taste within the house , and frequently complained of the frustration she endured at having to maintain the past in all its detail , enjoyed the discipline the White Garden imposed , the contacts that it brought her in the gardening world , and the admiration its unusual beauty reflected upon her . |
| 15 | I do n't know if he was sexually assaulted and maybe died of shock . |
| 16 | ‘ And thus he continued ’ , writes Baxter , ‘ raging against me about a year , and then died of a fever in horror of conscience . ’ |
| 17 | He suggested that Brzezinski should " get stuffed " and then asked of he could translate this into Polish . |
| 18 | Meanwhile David Gilford left a star-studded field in the Lancia Martini Italian Open trailing in his wake and then spoke of his burning ambition to make Europe 's Ryder Cup team against America at The Belfry in September . |
| 19 | When Mother got caught again , for the umpteenth time , rather than risk Father 's mounting wrath , she gave the line a couple of vicious tugs , hoping he would not notice ; and almost died of fright when an outraged salmon leapt from the water and made off upstream like a rocket . |
| 20 | I swallowed it in one gulp and almost died of coughing . |
| 21 | The real truth about Crabb will never be known , but it does seem that he was expected by the Russians , was caught and either died of a heart attack or was murdered , and his body dumped over the side as the ships left Portsmouth . |
| 22 | He tended to regard the conversion of his son Harilal to Islam as something that was prompted by monetary considerations , and in the case of such converts , he maintains that they should be readmitted to Hinduism without hesitation if they so desired and truly repented of their erroneous actions . |