Example sentences of "of [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most letters asked for autographs or photographs , some complained of or praised a person interviewed or view expressed , and there was always a sprinkling of old dears short of correspondents who rambled on about the old days . |
| 2 | But then between the fronds he saw a face , the most beautiful face he could have dreamed of or imagined , a still white face , with long gold lashes on pale cheeks , and a perfect pale mouth . |
| 3 | There was something sad about the exchange — and a finality that he , by no means , approved of or desired . |
| 4 | Accurate information about epilepsy is essential to avoid the perception that it is something to be ashamed of or feared . |
| 5 | They can dispense with the claim that science must start with unbiased and unprejudiced observation by making a distinction between the way a theory is first thought of or discovered on the one hand , and the way in which it is justified or its merits assessed on the other . |
| 6 | I do not think that the conch would have been thought of or used , at least to start , but the girls would have probably got together into one large group as the boys did , although with sub-divisions of especial friends . |
| 7 | Similarly , in order to integrate the target 's business within the enlarged organisation overlapping or ill-fitting activities may be disposed of or discontinued . |
| 8 | I know this was the first time they 'd ever thought of or considered themselves as artists , before that I guess they just thought they were lucky . |
| 9 | Cases of the former kind will be informative , and constitute an important contribution to scientific knowledge , simply because they mark the discovery of something that was previously unheard of or considered unlikely . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal held that the buyer dealt as a consumer , so that the clause was inapplicable ; however , Dillon LJ , obiter , suggested that had the buyer not been dealing as a consumer , the clause would have been reasonable because the buyer ( 1 ) was " ex hypothesi dealing in the course of business and [ the managing director ] was not devoid of commercial experience " and ( 2 ) the supplier was a hire purchase company , not a dealer , and had never had possession of or inspected the car . |
| 11 | Any client ( corporate or otherwise ) in relation to whom the firm performs services amounting to corporate finance activities provided he has agreed to the terms of and signed a corporate finance engagement letter issued to him by the firm . |
| 12 | He still insisted he had done nothing to be ashamed of and said he had been cleared of wrongdoing by his ‘ constant friend ’ Mr Major . |
| 13 | ‘ The local authority sought orders from the court by which the perpetrator of the abuse would be forbidden to have contact with the children , a process approved of and followed previously by judges and local authorities throughout the country . ’ |
| 14 | Another reason for the prominence of And waited in the above example is that it repeats verbatim information that has already been established in the previous sentence . |
| 15 | So now Marcus has been made an example of and locked up , and all for some crime committed from behind a desk . |
| 16 | This modified approach may only be employed where the client has agreed to the terms of and countersigned a corporate finance engagement letter issued to him by the firm . |
| 17 | And then we went on to and parked at the start of and walked up one side and back down the other side and that 's as much as I saw of it . |
| 18 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 19 | By the time the week rolled around when she and Cara would start their trip , Fabia , who had managed to get hold of and read one of Venedelin Gajdusek 's translated works , was feeling as much in awe of the man as her sister . |
| 20 | Even so , a sense of vocation is noticeable among most field officers , even many of the older ones : pollution control is still conceived of and practised more as a calling than a job . |
| 21 | Generally in rational expectations models in macroeconomics the policy rule generating the prediction for a variable comprises an equation whose determining variables typically comprise both lagged endogenous variables ( e.g. values of and lagged exogenous variables ( e.g. ) . |
| 22 | Apart from the essentials , there was a lot of luxury stuff : pate de foie gras , smoked salmon , tins of continental delicacies he 'd never heard of and did n't want to try . |
| 23 | Tyndale was always aware of and resigned to his likely fate . |
| 24 | The buck thrashed and spat and made a high keening noise I did n't think rabbits were capable of and beat its legs on the ground . |
| 25 | I thought about the chips that Mrs Phipps had spoken of and remembered that I had nearly choked on them once . |
| 26 | Activities , which society had previously disapproved of and banned , are now permitted and can be freely indulged in . |
| 27 | It is doubtful if this existed in a written form and it could well have been an oral source which Luke knew of and used . |
| 28 | I bought did Dick a bottle of and paid off the mortgage . |
| 29 | Under s178 , which applies to accounting periods ending on or before 30 September 1993 , when Target leaves the vendor 's capital gains tax group it will be treated as having disposed of and reacquired any assets it has acquired intra-group within the six-year period preceding the date it leaves the group . |
| 30 | For as we mature in the Christian life so we come to recognise that there are still unconverted areas in our life which need to be repented of and handed over to God . |