Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daphne , whom Cecilia suspected of being rather less well-off than she was herself , though this was not a matter to delve into , phoned her just after six on alternate evenings and she phoned Daphne on the others . |
| 2 | It also met a further requirement which Freud demanded of a new theoretical formulation , namely , that it help to explain the sociological and historical development of humanity . |
| 3 | Its May list of the most popular buys has Hartstone Group , the hosiery and leather goods company whose shares have plummeted after a series of profits warnings , in fourth spot . |
| 4 | Much of the energy of the press and television fraternity was devoted to battling for access to news material , sometimes involving conflicts within news ‘ pools ’ and sometimes between news-gatherers and the military , as when the Iraqi government expelled most journalists or the French agency AFP was reported to be bringing a lawsuit against the Pentagon , which AFP accused of having excluded it from the pools . |
| 5 | It is at least possible that their features came from their father 's side of the family , judging from an anecdote which Herbert told of having been on holiday at the Cape as a young man . |
| 6 | By contrast , the Corinthians passage in which Paul speaks of male headship , and in which it is said that women should be silent ( a verse which is probably an interpolation and does not owe to Paul ) , he is concerned with a practical situation which has arisen , a situation in which the church , still insecure in a pagan world , was likely to cause scandal if it departed too far from social convention — and his concern is that it should not unnecessarily put itself in jeopardy . |
| 7 | Later on if he is still not contented , he may need to go on to realise the peak experience , which Maslow spoke of as a desire for the beautiful . |
| 8 | There seems every reason to believe those 1917 recollections in which Chaplin spoke of how from the moment that he had first seen the light of Brixton he was aware that ‘ unkind fate must have struck his knife unto me ’ and of how he had been ‘ through more hardships and downright poverty than one per cent of the world 's worst Jonahs can tell of ’ . |
| 9 | The Michelin guide to Perigord will reveal a castle either preserved or in ruins at each of these places , though one would need to go off the map to Mareuil-sur-Belle , as well as Vieux-Mareuil , to identify all the three donjons which Pound speaks of in that vicinity . |
| 10 | It is doubtful if this existed in a written form and it could well have been an oral source which Luke knew of and used . |
| 11 | His arrest led to the severing of diplomatic relations with Norway , where Wamwere had been given refugee status and which Kenya accused of supporting subversion in Kenya . |
| 12 | Boniface was looking back to an age in which the privileges of the churches of the Anglo-Saxons had been untouched and inviolate , or so it was thought , and he saw this age as ending — as he tells Aethelbald — in the time of Ceolred , king of the Mercians , and Osred , king of the Northumbrians ( both of whose reigns ended in 716 ) , whom Boniface accuses of behaving as Aethelbald was now doing and as a consequence of which they both perished miserably . |
| 13 | I do n't know what Tod makes of them , except that his glands tell me he could do without any special attention , or any attention at all . |
| 14 | I wonder what Steiner makes of it ? ’ |
| 15 | what Chodorow retains of the psychical that makes it impossible for her to consider social relations in any but the most simplistic way . |
| 16 | Further , surrealist allegory for Benjamin is a method in which these figural signifiers are taken from ‘ the petrified and insignificant ’ , from what Breton spoke of as the ‘ dresses of five years ago ’ ( Sontag 1979 , p. 26 ) . |
| 17 | Listening to him , Thorkel Fóstri wondered , as he had at Scone , what Thorfinn thought of this , the first of the next generation of rulers . |
| 18 | Alison smiled at him her sunny smile which removed from her face what Franca thought of as her ‘ legal look ’ . |
| 19 | I longed to know what Eva made of things , what she thought of Jamila , say , and the marriage of Changez . |
| 20 | She did n't care what Jake thought of her . |
| 21 | Celia Hooper , secretary to the Deanery Synod , one of what Anna thought of as Peter 's groupies . |
| 22 | What Butler says of this account — namely that it ‘ tells us more about the fantasies that a fearful heterosexual culture produces to defend against its own homosexual possibilities , than about lesbian experience itself ’ ( Gender Trouble , 86 — 7 ) — might also be said more generally of the way homosexuality is conceptualized in sexual difference theory . |
| 23 | He began what Daniel thought of as his " creeping " to the back-stairs . |
| 24 | It was exactly what Leonard expected of a poet , and he and Layton have remained firm friends ever since . |
| 25 | He asks what God requires of us in relation to the world 's poor , and he outlines and evaluates possible courses of action . |
| 26 | Once they had established that all men were equal before God and that all men were theoretically capable of finding out , for themselves , what God demanded of them , they could not confine that principle to the religious sphere , no matter how much they may have wanted to . |
| 27 | ‘ Ah wonder what Christ makes of all the horrors done in his name . |
| 28 | ‘ Mummy did n't want me to come here , ’ she told Anne in what Anne thought of as a ‘ far back ’ voice , ‘ but I did n't want to arse around playing Lady Bountiful I wanted to do real war work . |
| 29 | What Ruskin made of Tuscany |
| 30 | What Bob said of course was totally untrue with respect to what the Conservatives did in the past . |