Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [adv] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | My parish priest had always dreamed of building outstation churches and , with the luxury of two curates , here was his chance to convert one into a builders ' labourer ! |
| 2 | Over 30% in this study had never heard of the ATB . |
| 3 | By the mid-nineteenth century , German biblical scholarship had truly come of age , and a dating of the Gospels had been established which — in its approach and in most of its conclusions — is still deemed valid . |
| 4 | Lip-reading skills were of little use because her vocabulary had almost died of starvation . |
| 5 | On one wall was a big map of Vangmoor , on another a print of the only painting Constable had ever done of the moor , Loomlade church with Big Allen behind . |
| 6 | His campaign had also warned of the strains on West Germany 's infrastructure from a continuing inflow of East Europeans into the country . |
| 7 | Just as Paul the apostle had once written of being ‘ transported into the third heaven ’ in a mystical experience of God , so mother and son were united in their desire for God . |
| 8 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 9 | Nottingham Forest had almost despaired of breaking down Everton 's rebuilt defence in an entertaining tie at the City Ground when Lee Chapman won the match seven minutes from the end . |
| 10 | Nottingham Forest had almost despaired of breaking down Everton 's rebuilt defence when Lee Chapman won an entertaining fourth-round tie at the City Ground with a smartly taken goal seven minutes from the end . |
| 11 | Rain had never heard of it but Wickham and the rotund Italian who owned it were familiar . |
| 12 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 13 | The herd had once consisted of 150 animals . |
| 14 | Mr Webster said his daughter had often spoken of her ambition . |
| 15 | Activities , which society had previously disapproved of and banned , are now permitted and can be freely indulged in . |
| 16 | And the bullets in the gun in the watch-tower above , they 're real … and the cold , and the sentence of the court which has fourteen years to run , and the worst luck that the Consul had ever heard of … they 're real . |
| 17 | Also , by the time of publication , the world had already heard of Hawking 's genius ; FRS at 32 and Lucasian Professor ( Newton 's former chair ) at 37 ; a brilliant mind trapped by motor neurone disease in an ever-wasting body . |
| 18 | Our driver had never heard of the Euston Road . |
| 19 | If an accident happens as a result of driving which deviates from the proper standard , then that may well be a case of negligence even if the driver had never thought of the risk in that particular case , because the driver is presumed to know the Highway Code . |
| 20 | But that surely is a very interesting thought about this , and until the , er , Bishop of Bradford preached his famous sermon and all the thing blew up , people in this country had never heard of er , Mrs Simpson . |
| 21 | ‘ If your poor mother had ever dreamed of this ! ’ |
| 22 | One parent was told by a consultant , ‘ We all have to go sometime , ’ after her 16-year-old son had just died of leukaemia . |