Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] he [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 2 | He was a different type of skater but he did plenty of modern lip stuff including backside smith stop to fakie , and much other to-fakie weirdness . |
| 3 | So obsessed was he with the details of administration that he saw nothing inappropriate , while Governor-General of Nigeria , in personally composing a memorandum on the issue of chamber pots to second-class administrative officers : he was , he said , against it . |
| 4 | They could 've done more with the ‘ ol wizard too : unable to use most of the flashy weapons from the armoury , he accumulates huge amounts of dosh as he has nothing to spend it on . |
| 5 | But I do remember that in every room he showed me I made sure I was near to the door , the safest point of exit if he tried anything . |
| 6 | Horsley cheerfully admitted when he took up the post of Chair that he knew nothing about newspapers . |
| 7 | They had made love , and it had been so utterly different from his other experiences of sex that he thought something wonderful had happened . |