Example sentences of "[indef pn] of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had suspected someone of forging letters from Walter Machin . |
| 2 | He thinks nothing of staying up till two or three o'clock in the morning in casinos , although I tell him it 's very , very bad for one 's constitution to have irregular hours . |
| 3 | Rixi certainly had a voluminous ego , and thought nothing of confiding that a team mate was ‘ a selfish bitch ’ . |
| 4 | Getting in would be hazardous ; to say nothing of getting out , but it was his only chance . |
| 5 | … the working class think nothing of getting married on the dole . |
| 6 | And he 's got all , do n't think nothing of getting to any trouble with it , you know . |
| 7 | Many candidates would think nothing of taking advantage of headhunters by accepting a free overseas trip and free entertainment such as drinks , lunch or dinner , whilst having no intention whatsoever of changing jobs . |
| 8 | He was , moreover , an extremely wealthy young man who thought nothing of taking a string of polo ponies wherever he went . |
| 9 | And if he lived on the other side of the world she would think nothing of flying to meet him , she said . |
| 10 | ‘ People barely had enough food to live on , but thought nothing of bringing him into their homes and feeding him and giving him somewhere to sleep . |
| 11 | True , he had become used to being interrupted — there were , in the category of interrupters , young feckless poets who thought nothing of calling and expecting to be subsidised without there being any thought of reimbursement . |
| 12 | A man of intriguing contradictions , he espouses Ivy League courtesy yet thinks nothing of hiring private investigators to snoop on his former tactician ; he adheres to Corinthian values yet his syndicate is heavily sponsored ; he professes the scientific and analytical approach yet can be impulsive and petulant in his decision-making . |
| 13 | We think nothing of handing over enormous sums of money to be reduced to screaming and tearstained wrecks , as short-wave diathermy currents course down our follicles . |
| 14 | " there 's the very devil of a horseman in yonder field who thinks nothing of eating three tigers for breakfast ! " |
| 15 | To say nothing of saving up to 45% on the running costs . |
| 16 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 17 | He 'd think nothing of checking up on a fellow 's credentials . |
| 18 | As a bachelor it seemed slightly shocking to Rupert that a colleague , even though an anthropologist , should think nothing of abandoning his wife when she was ill . |
| 19 | Democrats in Congress do not want to embarrass the president by forcing him to choose between a veto of their bill and a snub of China — to say nothing of wounding Mr Patten . |
| 20 | Ghislaine Maxwell thought nothing of blowing £2,500 on a no-expense-spared trip to the States at the weekend . |
| 21 | Walkers who would not dare stroll half a mile in inner cities thought nothing of walking 190 miles across the fells , dales and moors from St Bee 's in Cumbria to Robin Hood 's Bay in North Yorkshire . |
| 22 | In her early childhood , a threepenny piece had seemed like a fortune , whereas Félix Verveine 's rich clients thought nothing of paying 3,000 francs to be dressed by him . |
| 23 | I knew nothing of growing before Melin Meloch , but when we left , it did n't look half bad . |
| 24 | The three of them are spending Christmas with us , which will be lovely , but no doubt a bit fraught , as one highly active child will be joined by one ditto kitten , who thinks nothing of leaping on to your lap at mealtimes , digging her claws into your legs for support . |
| 25 | Juliana Hatfield , in an ideal world , would be one of the candidates for courtship by the major labels in America who think nothing of offering the noise-for-noise sake Helmet half a million dollars to ditch an indie label for the big-time . |
| 26 | In the days before Aids , I 'd have thought nothing of offering it to him , but nowadays you did n't even have to mention it . |
| 27 | Havers , whose Charmer character in the hit ITV series would have thought nothing of ripping off a needy mother , told the BBC he was touched by her story and wanted to give her a happy Christmas . |
| 28 | ‘ The sort who would think nothing of putting their rubbish out on the side of the road , ’ as one observer noted , ‘ but who still feel very strongly indeed that there should be no goldmining here . |
| 29 | He thinks nothing of doing business with the pariahs of the UN . |
| 30 | To say nothing of mashing the boring bits down to a slurry of images , hosing them away with a touch of your finger . |