Example sentences of "had [verb] something of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were more articulate , had seen something of the wider world , retained a thirst for knowledge , and were sceptical towards the Church . |
| 2 | She had seen something of it professionally , and had thought herself exempt . |
| 3 | Not wishing to live in south Durham and commute daily , this had presented something of a problem for him . |
| 4 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 5 | Towers and spires had become something of an obsession with Nonconformists during the last forty years of the century . |
| 6 | Andre had fallen in with the legendary Lafons of Meursault — Dominique Lafon was at college at the same time , and Lafon pere had become something of a mentor . |
| 7 | I had become something of an expert in the leisure market , and to many of the institutional buyers had some spurious extra authority simply because I could hit a golf ball further and straighter than they could . |
| 8 | He grew very portly as an old man and although by this time he had become something of a legend to the other members of his club ( " The Hero of Krishnapur " ) , one might have thought that he himself had entirely forgotten about the siege . |
| 9 | My faithful driver , Murphy , met me at the gate , taking my bags and walking me past the vagrants and money changers to his car , an old American model that had become something of a collector 's item . |
| 10 | But now these beginnings had become something of a joke between them and the congregation had learned to accept them with amused tolerance . |
| 11 | De-selection had become something of a fashion in the Tory Party : an attempt had been made to de-select several Tory MPs who had campaigned for Heseltine in the leadership contest of November 1990 . |
| 12 | This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways . |
| 13 | Blessed by fine weather and perfect snow underfoot , the day had proved something of an anticlimax . |
| 14 | After all , Owen had proposed something of the sort a century before . |
| 15 | I had to study something of it to put the exhibition together . |
| 16 | Jock Lennox found the harmonium in the choir balcony right away and he had caused something of a furore even before the Mass had started that Sunday morning . |
| 17 | In our ten years of wandering , we had tasted something of these trials in near-drownings , starvations , falls and fevers . |
| 18 | By 1868 Schopenhauer remained a central fact of life for Nietzsche , but hardly , in himself , a source of fresh inspiration ; if anything , Nietzsche 's more critical attitude towards this first deux maximus had left something of a vacuum . |
| 19 | But in her mother 's kiss she had learned something of the importance of whatever it was that Rachel had to do . |
| 20 | Eventually his father persuaded him to return to Normandy but not before Philip of France had learned something of his brother-in-law 's troubles and half-formulated schemes . |
| 21 | The idea , as yet only half formed , seemed preposterous … and yet … it would be interesting to know if he had learned something of which she was unaware . |
| 22 | And , though those dreams had taken something of a battering since the heady days of Taunton , they were resilient and survived in amended form . |
| 23 | ‘ And do you really think that if I had taken something of your aunt 's I would be stupid enough to wear it to work ? ’ |
| 24 | At the beginning of his career , a friend of young John Coffin 's had been a multiple murderer , and he had learnt something of their nature . |
| 25 | After setting up NARCOG 's listening post in Larnaca , training the Cypriot police to use their UN-funded radio equipment , fitting out police boats ' and King Edmondo with satellite tracking gear and installing short-wave transmitters in Beirut and Larnaca for DEA intelligence traffic , Coleman had acquired something of a reputation in the area of advanced electronics . |
| 26 | As with all young people she had to make something of herself before she could offer anything to anyone else . |