Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Beatrice Webb wrote of birth control and the economic conditions : |
| 2 | Godfrey Amoo said of Ali : ‘ I try to copy his style , his footwork and the man generally — everything about him . ’ |
| 3 | What the second Mrs Van Butchell thought of having her predecessor in the house is not recorded , neither was Hunter 's opinion . |
| 4 | ‘ That the accident at the corner of … resolved … culprit apprehended … said Herr Nordern cleared of all suspicion … and etc. , and etc. , and etc. , And that 's that , ’ Marx said unemotionally as he folded the form and slid it back into the envelope . |
| 5 | KATRINA MURRAY tells of a special retreat |
| 6 | Yesterday exactly a week after he suffered serious leg and arm injuries on a country road at Stillington Jason told of his nightmare which started when he was accused of seeing Pringle 's ex-girlfriend , Leanne Rees . |
| 7 | Writing shortly after the end of the war , Roger Manvell spoke of a ‘ cinematic poetry peculiar to British films ’ while Dilys Powell suggested that the films made during the war had ‘ set the English film on the path in which masterpieces may be created . ’ |
| 8 | Sentencing Fisher Mr Justice Judge said of the rape of the pahrmacist ’ No one who saw her give evidence will forget her visible revulsion as she described what happened . ’ |
| 9 | During the ceremony Gen. Matos underlined the role of armed forces in upholding territorial integrity and national sovereignty , whilst Gen. Numa spoke of the armed forces as the foundation of an Angola based on " democracy , peace and social justice " . |
| 10 | ‘ And what do you suppose Mr Pig and skinny Miss Ginger made of our happy family ? ’ |
| 11 | Alresford district commissioner David Harvey spoke of Barry 's life in scouting since 1949 . |
| 12 | In one of his books , David Jenkins speaks of a cartoon which shows God sitting on a cloud looking very cross and saying : ‘ You love one another or I 'll come down there and thump you . ’ |
| 13 | Police Chief Superintendent David Baker said of the flare-up : ‘ It was a family day out with a carnival atmosphere right up to the end of the evening . |
| 14 | In Shklovsky 's view , Sterne 's Tristram Shandy consists of a series of violations of literary conventions which draw our attention to the forms of fiction ; in so doing it transforms formal questions into content . |
| 15 | Despite this disastrous beginning , however , Giovanna would be there in the morning , her own family circumstances permitting , and she would be much obliged if the Signora would make sure that her children were up and dressed , and the breakfast eaten , so that she could see that the house was returned to something like the order which Signor Kettering expected of it . |
| 16 | The first indication that Richard Branson had of his young protégé 's dramatic metamorphosis came with a telephone call . |
| 17 | The man who flew the hostages out , Virgin Chairman Richard Branson spoke of the human misery at the airport . |
| 18 | Peter Sheldon was giving evidence at the Trial of Paul Archibald and David Bobby accused of murdering the student at the City 's Whitehouse Loan in February this year . |
| 19 | In 1847 Richard Sheepshanks wrote of John Couch Adams , a Cambridge mathematician who had just predicted the new planet Neptune : ‘ I think there is a hope that Mr Adams will continue his astronomical career . |
| 20 | Richard Benson wrote of the method he evolved : " For years I have loved the broad and smooth areas of colour that exist in posters printed by stone lithography , and in working with the halftone screen to reproduce photographs , I have struggled to apply this inherently lithographic quality to the work of the stone 's descendant , the modern offset press … |
| 21 | Stockier than Morpurgo , with a less untroubled brow and a glare at the camera of barely bridled contempt , Ramsey Everett looked of the whole pack the one most prone to question their right to behave as they wished . |
| 22 | When David Gardner speaks of his oils and essences having ‘ a longer shelf life ’ he raises the spectre of Worthington E , Double Diamond and Watney 's Red . |
| 23 | Miss Marshall complained of unlawful sex discrimination and her case went to the European Court of Justice where it was decided that she had been the subject of such unlawful discrimination . |
| 24 | Lord David Cecil wrote of Conrad : |
| 25 | Children do see words as natural objects , and the non-semantic associations Valerie Yule disapproves of ( ’ visual , phonic , contextual , etymological , and so on ’ ) are the key to the child 's interest in them . |
| 26 | Suter chairman David Abell said of the Chemoxy operation : ‘ The skills of its management and flexibility in adapting to difficult market circumstances have enabled it to seize opportunities . ’ |
| 27 | Bobby Moore tells of cancer fight |
| 28 | In the study which Teresa Hinton and Richard Berthoud made of Money Advice Services , they showed how much the development had been a response to the increasing demands for help at a local level . |
| 29 | What Edward Plantagenet thought of that the folk in Berwick could only guess . |
| 30 | NALGO branch spokesman Richard Brunner said of the appeal : ‘ It 's not looking particularly optimistic . ’ |