Example sentences of "[vb past] of [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were astonished to hear that in Britain it costs more than £3 to go to the cinema ( a Filipino obsession ) , when it costs only 3p in Dapitan , and to learn that teenage girls in Britain could go on a date with their boyfriends without a chaperone ; something disapproved of on Mindanao ) . |
| 2 | In general what is permitted and expected with regard to our behaviour towards those who are classed as " we " is either expressly forbidden or disapproved of with respect to those who rate as " they " , and vice versa . |
| 3 | ‘ The Jew from Babylon ’ is an enthralling tale about a Jewish sorcerer , a believer in the faith , hated by demons and disapproved of by rabbis , who in old age endures a turmoil which ends his life . |
| 4 | Well that all started of at Alderton hospital when I , I was seen to run across this field and rescue |
| 5 | She remains an inspiring example to be remembered and talked of with fondness and good humour . |
| 6 | Once the exercise was completed satisfactorily , the coastguard helicopter duly saluted us and flew of at speed to rendezvous with the Stromness lifeboat . |
| 7 | In the social sciences at large the word has often been used very loosely for any approach which applies scientific method to human affairs , conceived of as part of the natural order . |
| 8 | We were practising for what we conceived of as adulthood . |
| 9 | Many men battled valiantly with what they conceived of as temptation and strove to live up to a higher ideal of married life , and few women , including leading feminists , would have thought of demanding more . |
| 10 | It was certainly the only place she thought of as home . |
| 11 | It seems that all the things that we met with in life and thought of as advantages in the beginning , are found to be grave disadvantages ; and all those things that in our youth we thought of as severe disadvantages , at last come to be seen as benefits . |
| 12 | Suspicious of excess and what she thought of as theatricality , she lived — quite adequately and blamelessly — on the lowest level of religious experience . |
| 13 | First , there were what I thought of as variations at the ‘ horizontal ’ level . |
| 14 | Celia Hooper , secretary to the Deanery Synod , one of what Anna thought of as Peter 's groupies . |
| 15 | Their devotion to African and Asian states was surprising in view of their dislike of humidity , and Nicolae 's aversion to mosquitoes , as well as their well-developed sense of superiority to those they still thought of as negroes . |
| 16 | It was a world unto itself , a working class community that existed quite separately from central London — which we thought of as Town , a totally different place . |
| 17 | They totally dissociated themselves from the Rowdies , who they thought of as kids , who , by mouthing off all the time , started trouble which was left to them to finish off . |
| 18 | The two sets of decisions can be understood more easily if thought of in terms of , firstly , assessing need and , secondly , setting priorities . |
| 19 | Did n't happen any town that I knew of except London and I can understand why they did it in London — very expensive place for a young detective to make a shape — cost too much money keeping in front of your job there . |
| 20 | She would need the services of a talented shoemaker and the best one she knew of in Swansea was Hari Morgan . |
| 21 | ‘ Did he have any friends that you knew of in Beirut ? ’ |
| 22 | Would they , on reading or hearing the words complained of in context , say to themselves " that is an opinion " , or " so that is the fact of the matter ? " |
| 23 | The cross she spoke of with hatred , as if she feared it . |
| 24 | There were things the men never spoke of to Angie ; and she had known instinctively that Eric 's job was something she and he would never openly discuss . |
| 25 | I will be writing to the normal firms as usual , to get donations for the raffle , er now the other thing I 've got to report from is the stall , no before that the E C discussed applications by other organisations , now Sheffield and erm many other areas produce there own excellent publications , so I , I wrote of to Greater London Pensioner to Redbridge , to Senior Citizens in Sheffield , Anglian Pensioners , Grey Power and erm I , I 've sent letter 's to them and already had some copies back from Sheffield . |