Example sentences of "[adj] we [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now Wilson , ’ Mr Browning began , looking grave and weary , ‘ what is this we hear of you ill-treating your guest , our friend ? ’ |
| 2 | Then it got quite boring , and it was really hard work , and now after the first year 's finished I 'm glad we thought of that because I 've done quite well . |
| 3 | This is not unusual we know of one set on a 90 at 36,000 miles from new |
| 4 | The director may be trying to demonstrate the situation as it was then , but in not offering the viewer some entree into the little we see of the Black peoples interaction with each other , she colludes with it . |
| 5 | The women were young and not unattractive , the sets handsome , the costumes ( what little we saw of them ) pleasing , the camerawork professional and the dialogue or sub-titles not without humour . |
| 6 | I 'm sure we did of course but there 's no reason why if we get on that we should n't start another one okay . |
| 7 | The set chosen here , the reduced walks from r in G , fulfils all we require of V– . |
| 8 | We fished off the southern coast of Iceland but never in sight of the mainland ; all we saw of land was the Hvalsbakur or Whale 's Back , a single forbidding rock sixteen feet high , visible from ten miles away in clear weather . |
| 9 | All we saw of Macca was him being handed back his captn armband by the ref when it fell off . |
| 10 | Cullam 's a damned liar and all we know of McCloy rests on his word alone . |
| 11 | All we know of Henry Hanna comes from Leland , and he never mentions Hanna teaching anywhere or acquiring any eminence , and there is no medieval evidence for his school . |
| 12 | All we know of him was that he had been involved in RAF mountain rescue in Anglesey , and had quite recently been on a posting in Lincolnshire . |
| 13 | To them also , and particularly to Du Caurroy , we owe almost all we know of French instrumental ensemble music of the period . |
| 14 | This is all we ask of them . |
| 15 | All we ask of you in return is to buy at least one book from each of the Reviews and stay with us for a minimum of six issues . |
| 16 | All we ask of anyone coming to live in a civilized city is that they accept the code of behaviour of civilized , decent people ’ etcetera , etcetera … |
| 17 | He might as well have been blowing a dog whistle for all we heard of his wasted energy . |
| 18 | And that is precisely all we have of what has now come to be known as Fermat 's Last Theorem . |
| 19 | At the time of the second General Election of 1701 we hear of a club of Tory MPs who subscribed a guinea a head for batches of Davenant 's papers to be given away among acquaintances " as antidotes against the poison that is spread by the other side , who spare no cost to scatter their libels … round the kingdom " . |
| 20 | As I said , the draft regulations impose on union citizens a few minor procedural changes from those we require of our own citizens . |
| 21 | Price is another factor which influences quantity with some foods — mainly those we think of as protein foods . |
| 22 | For we should have to be able to redescribe both the actions we currently regard as rational , and those we think of as requiring a reactive response , so as to overcome the contrast between them . |
| 23 | In Chapter 3 we spoke of the importance of being able to signal , and of the influence of early experiences in acquiring confidence that signals will be seen or heard and then responded to . |
| 24 | It is very strange that the slimmer we get the more critical we become of our body , often exclaiming , ‘ but I 've still got a big waist/tummy/hips/bottom ! ’ |
| 25 | Now those people , even at the best we spoke of , six months full , six months half , are now becoming into a problem area , are n't they ? |
| 26 | On February 19 we wrote of the chap round Carmel Road way who 'd installed security lighting after two burglaries further up the street . |
| 27 | Gradually , as the armies pushed on through France , French airfields were taken over by the RAF and the Americans , and one day Jimmy and Henry were posted to a station near Rennes and that was the last we saw of them . |
| 28 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 29 | When at last she reached Lynne , she found a very angry confessor , and his ‘ full sharp words ’ are almost the last we hear of Margery ; we do not know what happened to her after her book was finished . |
| 30 | In June 1944 we heard of the fall of Rome . |