Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , as the polls came to trouble the Tories , the ‘ troubles ’ suddenly became of interest — purely because it appeared the Conservative Revolution might just be sustained with the assistance of that unlikely revolutionary , James Molyneaux , leader of the Ulster Unionists . |
| 2 | To Nikon 's opponents , however , the changes not only smacked of foreign heresy but seemed to threaten the whole meaning of the liturgy , to break the link between the service and the faith . |
| 3 | Memories obviously lingered of the War Communism strategy of trying to divide richer from poorer peasants . |
| 4 | Not much came of it . |
| 5 | In about 1895 the trade began to raise the popular image of the ‘ undertaker ’ from being a person who merely disposed of the dead to a funeral director whose main object is service to the public . |
| 6 | He only learnt of Chalky 's disappearance in February 1989 five days after a meeting at his house between James , Gardiner , himself and a fourth man . |
| 7 | Yet the most important innovation of her era was the televising of Parliament , under the kind of controlled circumstances ( no snoring MPs , no empty backbenches ) that she so approved of . |
| 8 | In producing national network programmes ( the network basically consisted of telegraph wires stretching some 5,000 miles from Vancouver , on the Pacific to Halifax , Nova Scotia on the Atlantic coast ) we soon became familiar with the five time-zones across the country . |
| 9 | I could no longer talk or laugh freely , as I knew he only approved of serious moods and studies . |
| 10 | But a course which only consisted of getting the student on to the inside of one or more disciplines would not count as a course of higher education ; it would merely be a training in those disciplines . |
| 11 | The minds of the other literate villagers were dissipated on what they could pick up in a random manner : most of it naturally consisted of religious tracts , the traditional fodder left over from the past . |
| 12 | Now , have you , you , you obviously heard of the home corner , yep ? |
| 13 | I only heard of what we will call " the-carving-of-mahogany-to-fit-the-cami-knickers " years and years later from my dear friend Bruin Boyce . |
| 14 | Anthony sometimes dared to do the things that Nigel only thought of . |
| 15 | Otherwise his life would not have been possible , because he only thought of that every night , and every day too . ’ |
| 16 | But sometimes he only thought of the next performance . |
| 17 | She only thought of herself , as she had always done . |
| 18 | ‘ And then — this evening , when everyone was so upset … you only thought of her … you went off after her as if she were the only person that mattered to you … |
| 19 | When you were in love you only thought of yourself and your love ; Ruth knew that well enough . |
| 20 | Oh it would n't be me cos I 'm , I 'm doing it this year and I only thought of it too late |
| 21 | It is also recorded that in the early 18th century ‘ Edwin Calvert , gentleman , apparently died of alcohol poisoning at the age of 17 ’ . |
| 22 | She kinda thought of him as a poet , and I think he loved her for that . |
| 23 | He only knew of the life he had led in the baby-farming house , one of seventeen young children . |
| 24 | ‘ She not only knew of her big hits , but also about lots of other numbers on her various albums . |
| 25 | ‘ In Nigeria I only knew of Guinness as the stout and Harp lager so I have been surprised by the diversity of the company , ’ reflects . |
| 26 | She stressed that her client only knew of the cockroach problem the day before the complaint was made and had immediately bought powder to rid the restaurant of the insects . |
| 27 | Then he suddenly thought of something . |
| 28 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 29 | For no particular reason she suddenly thought of Sousan 's severe-faced school teacher . |
| 30 | He suddenly thought of Rosie . |