Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Listening to him , Thorkel Fóstri wondered , as he had at Scone , what Thorfinn thought of this , the first of the next generation of rulers . |
| 11 | Alison smiled at him her sunny smile which removed from her face what Franca thought of as her ‘ legal look ’ . |
| 12 | I longed to know what Eva made of things , what she thought of Jamila , say , and the marriage of Changez . |
| 13 | She did n't care what Jake thought of her . |
| 14 | Celia Hooper , secretary to the Deanery Synod , one of what Anna thought of as Peter 's groupies . |
| 15 | He began what Daniel thought of as his " creeping " to the back-stairs . |
| 16 | It was exactly what Leonard expected of a poet , and he and Layton have remained firm friends ever since . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | What Ruskin made of Tuscany |
| 20 | What Bob said of course was totally untrue with respect to what the Conservatives did in the past . |
| 21 | William assumed what Kate thought of as his tutorial manner . |
| 22 | He closely questioned Charles Lisner , who had come from Australia to join the Sadler 's Wells Ballet , about a ballet which Laurel Martyn had made for the Victorian Ballet Guild using that score : her subject matter , general treatment and what Lisner thought of the ballet . |
| 23 | It should n't have mattered a jot what Luke thought of her , but it did . |
| 24 | Then he went walking in Stanhope Wood , looking for a root of something Latin and nasty-sounding , which might be interesting when we know what Frome died of , except that if it was Corbett Farraday he would hardly flourish the matter so gaily in our faces , naive as he certainly seemed to be . |
| 25 | ‘ As matters stand now , the kingdom is quiet , but I will keep your Grace informed of what events occur . |