Example sentences of "[vb past] of the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To that , also , the King had given a great part of his attention , but when , late in the spring , word came of the sighting of ships from Normandy in the Clyde , he left his wife and household at Perth , where they had stayed a full week , and rode with a small retinue westwards to meet them . |
| 2 | The dissenters who met in these new places of worship belonged to a Puritan tradition which disapproved of the decoration of churches , and the interiors of meeting-houses were thus kept bare and plain . |
| 3 | He was probably the sort of liberal , Dexter thought , who boasted of the number of blacks he knew but whose acquaintance was limited to inviting them round to show off at trendy drinks parties . |
| 4 | He approved of the burning of Anabaptists . |
| 5 | She sobs loudly in his arms , relieved of the company of strangers for the first time . |
| 6 | Teyler , Roemer , Harrisson and Thompson ( 1973 ) recorded evoked potentials when subjects simply thought of the meaning of words which could be used either as nouns or verbs . |
| 7 | It was also unduly limited in the kind of explanations it offered of the course of events , explanations which appealed overmuch to the actions and dispositions of individuals , stringing them together into a complex story of aims and intrigues . |
| 8 | And then , most startling , a book called War , Wine and Women from which I learned of the existence of prostitutes and lice . |
| 9 | When Frederick learned of the breakdown of negotiations , while at his court at Fulda in June of 1170 , he solemnly repeated his oath never to recognise Alexander . |
| 10 | One visionary speaker at the British Association ( science ) meeting in 1984 spoke of the likelihood of rats the size of wolves inheriting the Earth in 50 million years time , when Man — in all probability — is no longer on the scene . |
| 11 | In particular , he spoke of the importance of counties . |
| 12 | They had been arrested on Dec. 17 and held at the premises of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance in Abidjan accused of the possession of documents supporting a group calling itself the Democratic Convention of African People , material considered hostile to the Eyadema regime . |
| 13 | For instance , when J. Henry Thoreau wrote of the greyness of rocks , he described the air as the thin paint in which they have been dipped and brushed by the wind . |
| 14 | Outside the circle a few mounds and stones were all that remained of the huddle of huts that had once crowded under the broch 's protection . |