Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They even have a branch of M & S. Come to think of it , perhaps Grimshaw 's pavilion is the ideal location , come the autumn , for the first out-of-town branch of that great British enterprise to hit the Iberian peninsula . |
| 2 | Would Ray or Durham have spoken of God as you spoke of Nature ? ’ |
| 3 | Now that Cadfael came to think of it , less than usual had been seen and heard of Jerome for the past few days , ever since the evening when he had been discovered on his bed , quaking and sick with bellyaches and headaches , and been soothed to sleep by Cadfael 's stomachics and syrups . |
| 4 | The prescription that Janice collected consisted of two syringes , each filled with a measured dose of the drug , ready to load into an autoinjector , a spring-loaded plastic ‘ gun ’ . |
| 5 | Erm I think that Vince has raised of very personal questions that we have ask about this erm the question of local accountability of the health authority board that will be created by this the to service this new joint health authority , would in fact , be the size of the existing one for West Essex and we would ha , have only a third of the representation that we currently have the whole of West Essex we 'll only have two non- executive members on the health authority board and I do n't think that that is terribly accountable but certainly a considerable reduction on what we 've got at the moment . |
| 6 | Once Harvard had disposed of a stock , the price would often drop . |
| 7 | At 8am , the hospital formally announced that Conor had died of a heart attack . |
| 8 | Karamani Mehmed Pasa ( Grand Vezir 882–6/1477–81 ) , pupil of another scholar vanquished by Hocazade and therefore ill-disposed toward him , told Mehmed II that Hocazade had complained of the climate in Istanbul , saying that because of it he had forgotten the learned works he had memorized , and that he had praised the climate in Iznik . |
| 9 | The hat and coat had been delivered the previous evening by an officer of the Kha-Khan 's guard , and since the news of Jehana 's betrothal had been spread through the court hours earlier it had to be assumed that Artai had heard of it , and that either he was inclined to forgive the offence which might be supposed to exist , or else he was pretending that he was aware of none . |
| 10 | She was flattered and excited that Hugo had talked of their relationship to Eleanor : offended that her privacy had been thus violated . |
| 11 | But Miguel Rafaelo sat at the desk , looking through the files that Shelley had made of all the patients she had seen . |
| 12 | The official Soviet version of events was provided in 1957 by Andrei Gromyko , then Deputy Foreign Minister , who claimed that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in prison in 1947 , a date conveniently set before the end of the Stalin era . |
| 13 | It was the terrible and forbidden dark side of the pure and honourable Sanhailt and , although Nuadu had heard of it , he had thought it extinct . |
| 14 | Though you can not deny that Stalinvast needed cleansing of its parasites ! |
| 15 | The ‘ cherishing love ’ that Barber has spoken of here takes the form of arguing that the Friend should cherish posterity , the world at large , by begetting a child on some anonymous and otherwise unimportant woman ! |
| 16 | No , I think that Wilko wants rid of him … more cash … happier bankers … and no one will really worry about selling off reserves ( unlike Batty or any of the other first team ) . |
| 17 | But there were those who said that Douglas had known of it and connived at it . |
| 18 | Moreover , it seems very likely that Anselm was referring to the search for relics conducted in secret by Osbern and Eadmer ; and it is also likely that Anselm had heard of the search from Eadmer himself . |
| 19 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |
| 20 | Barak nodded his head vigorously and Bernard let go of his shirt . |
| 21 | He had threatened to shoot her , and Frankie had dreamed of her blood-stained body dumped in the cellar with all the dead pigs . |
| 22 | Yet Alfred had chosen it as a place to die and David had said of his father : ‘ … for him it is one of those special places . ’ |
| 23 | England manager Graham Taylor left him out of the European Championship squad last summer and Blackburn pulled put of a £3 million transfer at the 11th hour in August . |
| 24 | He should have thought of that risk ; he wondered if Sims had thought of it . |
| 25 | She had never-quite-known what Dorothy Tuckey , and Magill and Tatham had known of the real loneliness of the hunted . |
| 26 | Whether Annie and Lizzie had heard of the Sunday visit or had marked her absence was n't clear but they appeared almost conciliatory compared to previous days . |
| 27 | Knowing Tolkien to have his difficulties , maritally speaking , the two Lewis brothers stayed away ; and Lewis , who disliked sharing spoken intimacies with friends , never allowed the conversation to develop if Tolkien tried to speak of his troubles . |
| 28 | He and Compeyson had got a lot of money out of a rich lady some years before , and Arthur kept dreaming of this lady . |
| 29 | What on earth would people think if Miriam started talking of a gentleman 's natural functions in front of the wedding guests when she and Fleury got married ; in some ways the prospect of such a solecism seemed more terrible to Louise than the possibility of one or both of them not surviving the siege . |
| 30 | It was just after ten o'clock , and Yanto began to think of his bed . |