Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present BIRON consists of descriptive information about studies held , not the datasets themselves , which have to be ordered from the Archive in a separate process . |
| 2 | On 15 February 1925 , J. M. Keynes wrote of this impending decision : |
| 3 | Other men raised doubts about the rightness of the war itself : the poet Gower spoke of ‘ this false war ’ ; the chronicler Walsingham , no mean chauvinist in his day , by the 1380s referred to ‘ this useless royal war ’ . |
| 4 | As the poet Gray said of Grasmere in the Lake District : ‘ This little unsuspected paradise , where all is peace , rusticity and happy poverty . ’ |
| 5 | This is always the way : the oldest temptation is also the most contemporary : Writing in his Notes from Underground Dostoevsky says of man , ‘ If he is not stupid , he is monstrously ungrateful ! |
| 6 | One could well say of the event horizon what the poet Dante said of the entrance to Hell : " All hope abandon , ye who enter here . " |
| 7 | Enough of the old wall existed in the fourth-century for the poet Ausonio to speak of the ‘ town of two walls ’ . |
| 8 | The Llewellyn Alexander Gallery is once again holding A Salon Des Refuses of work which was not hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition . |
| 9 | In this session Ann talked of her deprived early life and her first marriage , which ended when her husband walked out . |
| 10 | Did you , like the girl Bettelheim speaks of , dwell on different stages at different times , according to your need ? |
| 11 | She had been horrified at the botch Ruth made of it and Ruth had begun to wish that she had taken a few of Hester 's proffered lessons . |
| 12 | After all , Boswell 's Life of Johnson derives from what Johnson said : but do we know what proportion Boswell reported of what Johnson said ? |
| 13 | The Spanish in South America had of course embarked on this course long before the British ; the changes of 1757–63 mark the point at which the British moved on an appreciable scale into the imperial activity of gaining new subjects in the process of expansion . |
| 14 | The breakfast used to measure MCTT consisted of two slices of toast ( 17 g ) , butter ( 15 g ) , marmalade ( 20 g ) , one hard boiled egg , and 200 ml of weak tea containing 20 g of lactulose ( 30 ml of Duphalac , Duphar , Southampton , UK ) and 10 g of sucrose . |
| 15 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 16 | Assuming that product BNH consists of 20,000 units , what is the unit cost of BNH ? |
| 17 | The first inkling Dustin had of the film 's effect on audiences was when it was previewed before the general public . |
| 18 | The first inkling Amanda had of Cherie 's problem was when the child tried to snatch cigarettes whenever her parents lit up . |
| 19 | The apostle Peter speaks of the mutual submissiveness of wives and husbands , just as Jesus himself was submissive in his time on earth to death . |
| 20 | Yeah that 's right , very good , so nine , by pouring out this holy spirit and Jesus , Jehovah was er knighting him or appointing him to be the king of this coming kingdom , thing thus have anointed with the spirit , Jesus became the Messiah , which words in the Hebrew and Greek languages mean appoint , a anointed , therefore he became in fact Jesus Christ or Jesus the United , so , so it was Apostle Peter spoke of Jesus who was from Nazareth , Nazareth , how about anointed them , but all the spirit and power , also by his baptism and water , Jesus was presenting himself to God , to carry out the work that God had sent him to earth to do , what was that important work ? |
| 21 | Do they not find there ( I know I do ) just that suffocation Olson speaks of ? |
| 22 | Exactly four years ago Jeanette 's husband Tim died of cancer . |
| 23 | ‘ Any picture America had of its women being shy , gentle creatures living sheltered lives , untainted by the world , is shattered by the facts in the report , ’ commented one newspaper typically . |
| 24 | Nice opinion Feargal had of her , did n't he ? |
| 25 | John 's wife Sheila told of her shock when she woke to find a gun trained on them at their home in Bromley , Kent . |
| 26 | His loyal and seemingly very level-headed wife Nesta says of the second sex scandal he has been involved in during their marriage : |
| 27 | Next day Wilfrid spoke of his disquiet to an old friend , Dick Thompson , the Registrar of Criminal Appeals , and he , having read the book , felt a similar concern . |
| 28 | According to the BBC , the only chance Bunter has of getting on television again would be to update Greyfriars into something like a public school version of Grange Hill . |
| 29 | In March 1931 , Sir john Simon spoke of socialism as ‘ a poisonous doctrine ’ and declared that he would not close his mind to tariffs as a method of dealing with the economic crisis . |
| 30 | So saying , when my wife Catherine died of cancer , Anthea sent me persistent invitations to spend a few days at her cottage , or even just come for a meal . |