Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny , and the illustrations were a bit tasteless . |
| 2 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 3 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 4 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 5 | In my A stream class at " the convent " I knew none of the other girls and rarely saw my former classmates . |
| 6 | Emilia , I think it of the utmost importance that … ’ |
| 7 | I remind him of the disproportionate harm that the MacSharry proposals would cause and seek his assurance that he will bear in mind the Scottish farmers and all those elsewhere in Britain when he represents the interests of the British Government and the British farmer in Europe . |
| 8 | Another time perhaps you will listen to me when I warn you of the dangerous ground you are treading . ’ |
| 9 | I had none of the schizoid suicide 's delusions about being able to survive my own death . |
| 10 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 11 | Despite the much vaunted heating and ventilating system of the new police headquarters the windows of Wycliffe 's office were almost obscured by condensation and the air had a clammy warmth which reminded him of the tropical house at Kew . |
| 12 | Malherbe may well have been responsible for a new approach apparent in vol.9 and in most of those from vol.1 onwards , which contain none of the serious distortions outlined above . |
| 13 | Its weakest point is the character of Pat — while the two men are realistically observed , Pat ( who has none of the shrewd toughness of her profession ) , is a fluff-headed mechanical doll who inexplicably switches from initial dislike of Sonny to a lovestruck Shirley Valentine . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you know anything of the Old Ones , or the carvings that are in the museum ? ’ |
| 15 | She has plenty of the proper sort . ’ |
| 16 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 17 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 18 | Telling the story , as she imagined it of the mad wife . |
| 19 | Now have you got plenty of the wee tablets or are you finished ? |
| 20 | It was me who warned you of the Fascist element infiltrating at Danino 's . |
| 21 | She knew nothing of the real woman behind it . |
| 22 | Those are the innocent victims , who knew nothing of the serious fraud . |
| 23 | For how could a reader who knew nothing of the original matter — the origin of the Silmarils , the rise and fall of Numenor , the triumphs and ultimate ruin of Gondolin , etc. — find a way in ? |
| 24 | She saw nothing of the pale green clusters of new leaves adorning the elm trees , nor did she see the arum lilies glowing with white purity beneath them . |
| 25 | With him , she felt none of the seething intoxication of love or lust or whatever it was which called her to Cameron . |
| 26 | Lucy herself said she remembered nothing of the dreadful cockchafer affair . |
| 27 | A 19-year-old brunette who worked in ‘ Back and Sides ’ , an Arden hairdresser 's , she reminded him of the young Alma Cogan . |
| 28 | She had such colour , such brightness , that sometimes she reminded me of the whirling mosaics , except that she was n't fragmented but unusually complete . |
| 29 | Time and again she told herself she was fortunate to see the back of him , so often she reminded herself of the despicable way he had behaved . |
| 30 | Not seeing Jane , however , was no cause for regret ; she had none of the kindly qualities of her husband . |