Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb base] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Roberts recalls that the Scuttler 's girl friend also had her own style of dress — ‘ clogs and shawl and a skirt with vertical stripes ’ — although I know of no other references to female attire , and as usual within these hooligan preoccupations attention was rootedly fixed on the boys . |
| 2 | In the case of the latter , the embedded knowledge is well documented in the formal requirements and specifications of computer programs , although I know of no active programs to preserve this information . |
| 3 | ‘ More than I approve of most of what I see down here . |
| 4 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 5 | The Pope 's got more chance of gettin' pregnant than I 'ave of gettin' into the charts . |
| 6 | If I hear of one I will inform you . ’ |
| 7 | But I I would n't er if I hear of a girl getting pregnant er you know now now it 's a very common thing I know , but sometimes I feel really sorry for the girls because it 's tying yourself fifteen , sixteen tying yourself down to children . |
| 8 | If I hear of one more occasion on which you make these allegations I shall feel it my duty to pass them on to Connon myself . |
| 9 | He was concentrating furiously now , for , he thought , if I know of these places , then surely it must be because people have been able to talk of them . |
| 10 | He subjects every item of expenditure within his control to the question : " What is the investment opportunity if I approve of this expenditure ? " |
| 11 | But if I speak of a stone that turneth all to gold , or a treasure hidden in the menstruum of whores , then the imagination is set to work . |
| 12 | You will not be shocked if I speak of — things a vicar 's daughter — ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If ever I succeed ’ he writes ‘ in bringing our native kings back to life in my songs , and Arthur who waged wars even under the earth , or if I tell of the splendid heroes of the table rendered invincible by their bond of comradeship and , oh if inspiration would but come to me , if I smash the Saxon phalanxes beneath the impact of the British . ’ |
| 14 | I am disturbed if I learn of cases of alleges impropriety or irregularity in their financial performance or in their accounting . |
| 15 | Any goal of mine which I have allowed to be chosen for me by others , even if I think of it as an end in itself , can only be serving as a means to something else which my private test does confirm as wanted for its own sake . |
| 16 | He said , ‘ If I think of anything else , can I find you here ? ’ |
| 17 | He went on , it 's quite useless if I think of your feelings in any way at all . |
| 18 | If I think of the alternative , I feel bloody well . |
| 19 | Richard said : ‘ It 's a little embarrassing because I know of at least 20 people at Felling who are fitter than me . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's strange , because I think of our music as very political . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd like to stay on here when it runs out , though , because I think of this as my home now . ’ |
| 22 | Are you going to stand there gossiping all day while I die of neglect here ? ’ |
| 23 | By the way , while I think of it , Anne was just about to leave the country when you rang , but she says when she gets back in September you 're to give her a call . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You and I were both born here , in Cork , but you think of it as Cork , Ireland , while I think of it as just Cork , where I live . ’ |
| 25 | Oh yeah while I think of it |
| 26 | while I think of it , you owe Maggie thirty one pound ninety five P , I 've paid thirty pound for you up to now |
| 27 | ( I miss out the word puking from this Shakespearean phrase since I know of few instances in which a baby has strained the cassock of the clergyman baptising it , though doubtless readers may know of one . ) |
| 28 | Whilst I know of no specific legend attached to them , the Tingle Stone and the Twizzle Stone , both in Gloucestershire , are very suggestive of just the sort of effects which have been reported at standing stones in recent years . |
| 29 | I am often asked whether I approve of cosmetic surgery — and I do not . |
| 30 | When I speak of ‘ seeing ’ or ‘ showing ’ a truth which becomes ‘ apparent ’ , of ‘ lucid ’ , ‘ clear ’ or ‘ obscure ’ ideas , of ‘ points of view ’ or ‘ aspects of a situation ’ , of ‘ shedding light ’ on a matter or ‘ being in the dark ’ about it , my language becomes more and more plainly metaphorical . |