Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair had been flattened by the storm so that it made Trent think of a squashed astrakan hat . |
| 2 | It made Patrick cringe of course , but the inevitable comparison with his brother was high on the agenda when , clutching his share of the £45,000 winners ' cheque and £15,000 for finishing eighth in the Nabisco points table , he walked into the interview room . |
| 3 | Kent County Council , at least , has ben persuaded of the value of the Hybrid Bill and appears to favour it as a means of dealing with the Channel Tunnel Rail Link . |
| 4 | ‘ And , as he said in his letter , it was all right for him to rough it a little while he was on his own , but he has Elise to think of now . ’ |
| 5 | Hilton urges those who would know God to think of themselves as pilgrims to " Ierusalem-ward " set out on a journey to the centre of their own inner world : He thus brings into play resonances from the traditional Augustinian image of the City of God the desire for which activates the Christian life and from allegorical exegesis where Jerusalem signifies , morally , the soul of the faithful Christian striving for the vision of peace and , anagogically , the life of those in heaven who see God face to face . |
| 6 | In his white face , there was nothing but a stillness deeper than the farthest depths of the sea — a quietness that made Ruth think of a drowned body drifting on its slow journey down to the sea bed . |
| 7 | For some reason it made Maggie think of silent music , each flicker a celestial note . |
| 8 | In such dreams servants would ease him into shoes studded with diamonds ; he would cock an ear to the whinny of his coach-horses , whose splendour would make England die of jealousy ; he would give oyster banquets , and have his dining-room surrounded by espaliers of flowering jasmine , out of which bright finches would swoop . |
| 9 | His loneliness had recently been underlined by the fact that Ramsay MacLure , having been kicked out by the painter and critic Robin Ironside , had moved in with Vaughan , forming with him a steady relationship that caused Minton to talk of finding his own house . |
| 10 | Union says Whitehall knew of DAF plight |
| 11 | ‘ The crux of the matter , ’ says Deborah Wearing of the Amnesia Association , ‘ is that the system recognises physical disability , mental handicap and mental injury ; those three categories have budgets and departments and care units . |
| 12 | Payment is not the main attraction of one-year set-aside , says Martin Bent of Wye College . |
| 13 | In the past few days shoppers have been paying one last visit to the store , many angered by a trend which has seen Liverpool stripped of many of its landmark shops . |
| 14 | Having been bitten by PW it may have made Deloitte shy of Touche . |
| 15 | In the novel itself , where we might expect Marmeladov to speak of solace , respite , forgetting , companionship , he grasps the paradox that he drinks because he is in search of suffering , of ‘ tears and tribulation ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ And heaven help you , ’ riposted Lady Merchiston swiftly , giving the lock of hair she held a sharp jerk , ‘ if you let Araminta know of this ! ’ |
| 17 | " A noble breakfast , " says George Borrow of the morning meal offered him at an inn at Bala in North Wales , " there was tea and coffee , a goodly white loaf and butter , there were a couple of eggs and two mutton chops — there was boiled and pickled salmon — fried trout also potted trout and potted shrimps . " |
| 18 | It was the real danger , and it turned Eochaid cold to hear Thorfinn speak of it openly , as if it amused him . |
| 19 | The wealthy , as if trying to secure their dead not only against body-snatchers , but against decay itself , encased them in immense coffins , lined with lead , which six men could scarcely carry , leading Dickens to write of ‘ a blind monster with twelve human legs , shuffling and blundering along . ’ |
| 20 | I am told Dickens partook of it at home . ’ |
| 21 | He visited the home of Simon Peter , was supported by well-to-do people and never encouraged Zacchaeus to dispose of the whole of his wealth at the time when he returned money to those he had cheated . |
| 22 | That made Defries think of Johannsen . |
| 23 | The Allies ' aim in 1918 had been to leave Germany shorn of its military and industrial power , to make sure that it would never again be capable of waging war or threatening the established pattern of Atlantic trade and European industry . |
| 24 | This would not only save money and help to curb the growth of the world 's stocks of separated plutonium ; it might also help to persuade Russia to dispose of its plutonium , rather than weaving an economic pipedream around it . |
| 25 | As she walked Maggie thought of her father whose body had been one of the last recovered . |
| 26 | He spoke as if this were a perfectly natural thing to do Carrie thought of it , of the sick old woman dressing up in her jewels and her beautiful clothes , and of this skinny , solemn , bespectacled boy watching her , and it did n't seem natural at all . |
| 27 | There was also a single large northern continent called Laurasia consisting of what is now North America , Greenland , Europe and Asia ( apart from India ) . |
| 28 | While there are less accomplished versions of the more elaborate examples in a given region , as in Kent , the virtuosity of the buckle , shoulder clasps and purse from mound 1 at Sutton Hoo inevitably led Speake to talk of a Sutton Hoo master craftsman and a workshop ; later pieces may have been produced by workers trained there . |
| 29 | The other man 's sinewy thinness , his smooth torso and the dull tone of his flesh , made Carey think of something bloodless and odourless ; something skinned . |
| 30 | It horrified Brian to think of Celia hypnotised by some guru who would try to drag things out of her which might not even have been correct . |