Example sentences of "was [verb] of [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody around me was slagging of Newsome and it was hilarious when he score and the Cop were shouting his name ‘ al la Shearer ’ . |
| 2 | Artemis 's father was away for a week 's sport in Leicestershire , and apparently it was expected of Artemis that she should be ready and able to go out and ride her new horse side-saddle alongside her father on his return . |
| 3 | It was said of Vaughan that he was ‘ esteemed by scholars , an ingenious person , but proud and humorous ’ . |
| 4 | A man who tempered sentiment with business sense , it was said of Guillaume that he revealed the price of a painting with the same air of awed reverence that he mentioned a woman 's age . |
| 5 | When Edwin Chadwick , the great English public health expert , was visiting Paris , he met the Emperor who asked him what he thought of the improvements in Paris , to which he replied : ‘ Sir , it was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble . |
| 6 | His single-breasted suit was made of mohair and he flicked a trace of ash off his trousers with a perfectly manicured hand . |
| 7 | He still had the scar now , twenty years later , a long thin groove down the inside of his right forearm , as if he was made of candlewax and someone had run their fingernail the length of it . |
| 8 | He turned his head , mouthing eagerly , and found the nipple so fast you 'd think it was made of iron and he was a magnet . |
| 9 | It was built of wood and it fairly shook during some of the more energetic dances , like the Lancers . |
| 10 | He was distressed when they asked about his wife 's fidelity , and in her turn Mrs T was accused of infidelity as she was interrogated separately from her husband . |
| 11 | Paulos is a professor of mathematics ; his book , he owns , was born of indignation and he writes with passion , tempered however by good humour . |
| 12 | Arbuckle was acquitted of manslaughter but his career ended overnight , with all his films scrapped . |
| 13 | I knew he was thinking of Eva as he said all this . |
| 14 | Joe was thinking of John as he walked through to Everton Road one day . |
| 15 | Well I was thinking of Cambridge but I do n't think I , Derek 's going to Holland |
| 16 | Detective Constable Woodley was cleared of suspicion and he and Clifford were returned to duty . |