Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above : A Jaffna schoolboy shows a drawing he made of helicopters strafing his home town . |
| 2 | Whenever he saw her he would ask her to explain the Bible to him , and in the drawing he made of her , he wrote the Hebrew version of her name , Chana , daughter of Rafael , in Hebrew characters across the top of the head . |
| 3 | My GP visited me and I still have the drawing he did of the cancer they had found in my kidney . |
| 4 | General Robert Scott is still alive and has sent Dick a hand written description of his first aircraft on the back of a photograph he had of himself with his P-40 . |
| 5 | In an emotional interview he spoke of his fear of the condition and his worry that he will never work again . |
| 6 | He could order her about and lay down any rule he thought of . |
| 7 | The document is aimed at stimulating international solidarity , not only with regard to the effects of the refugee crisis , but above all tot he causes of the tragedy . |
| 8 | Little Em'ly becomes one of his apprentices , and after the elopement he speaks of her with sympathy and understanding . |
| 9 | AUSTRALIA 'S David Campese is to receive a written apology from the fan he accused of tripping him after Saturday 's win over Wales . |
| 10 | A portrait he drew of Madame Decrucq coming home from the pit has since vanished . |
| 11 | Bratby 's fascination with Minton also determined the portrait he created of him after Minton 's death as Rocky Minetown in the novel , Brake-Pedal-Down ( 1962 ) . |
| 12 | Yet in one telling passage he speaks of his loneliness and of a crushing depression . |
| 13 | For one mad moment he thought of climbing out of the seat and sliding down a girder to safety : ‘ No , you berk , they only do that in films ! ’ |
| 14 | For a brief moment he thought of his home in London and brushed the memory aside . |
| 15 | For a moment he thought of going out and joining the moon-walkers . |
| 16 | For a moment he thought of being ill , but he could n't be ill for ever . |
| 17 | For a moment he thought of phoning her , then and there , and telling her how he felt . |
| 18 | From the moment he knew of the baby : ‘ We must do nothing , ’ he said , ‘ nothing to endanger my son … ’ |
| 19 | Loughton was the place he thought of as the station at which to de-train and seek food . |
| 20 | He 'd been given a meeting place he knew of . |
| 21 | Samuel Whitfield Daukes was his name , and what a very fine job he made of this rambling Gothic house of flint with its stone dressings , its ‘ Tudor ’ windows with their mullions and transomes , and its jolly carved bargeboards . |
| 22 | The entire future of the family and the farm fell on his shoulders , and what a wonderful job he made of it . |
| 23 | ‘ Clean old job he made of it , straight out of the drill book ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ This , ’ complained Wedderburn , ‘ gives him vast uneasiness , for if he is ordered abroad before he gets his Post he dispairs of it for some time . ’ |
| 25 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 26 | Although the bulk of production will be consumed by the group , there is still scope for external customers , a point he considers of special significance with the advent of 1992 and the potential of orders from Europe . |
| 27 | The hieroglyph he makes of my entrails |
| 28 | What an abysmally low opinion he had of her — and , unexpectedly , that reminder hurt . |
| 29 | When he had started to prepare his notes for this occasion , he was overwhelmed by private memories : St Louis was the place of his birth , and Washington University itself owed its foundation to his grandfather ; and when in the lecture he spoke of the characteristics of a national literature , and American literature in particular , as " a strong local flavour combined with an unconscious universality " it is clear to what locale he belongs . |
| 30 | If one takes the not inconsiderable trouble of following his analysis right the way through , it is hard not to be impressed by the picture he draws of an intricate network of equivalences and contrasts , corresponding to the different possible metrical divisions in the poem , and layered one upon the other in a kind of elaborate verbal counterpoint . |