Example sentences of "[coord] had [adv] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I NEVER ever went to a gig or had even heard of the term ‘ gig ’ before I joined the band , ’ says the little girl who owns pop 's most exquisite voice . |
| 2 | Until the rebels reached Monrovia the fighting had involved few direct clashes between the government troops and the rebels and had largely consisted of tribally motivated reprisal attacks against civilians . |
| 3 | Boswell burst out laughing and could not stop — the very idea : that Johnson , ‘ that majestic teacher of moral and religious wisdom ’ , should keep a harem , and had often thought of it . |
| 4 | In any case , it is too difficult for me , and I wish I had been a movie comedian or something of the sort and had never heard of physics ’ . |
| 5 | I had ‘ done ’ Twelfth Night at school and had never thought of music for it . |
| 6 | She had called it ‘ Death in the Buildings ’ , and had based it not only on the tragedy she had witnessed , but had also written of the temptation for young girls to make money by selling themselves than by working long hours for poor pay , and had followed that by writing of women 's disabilities in a world where care in childbirth was minimal , and how only the kindness of humane doctors made it possible for them to have any skilled treatment at all . |
| 7 | Sometimes he would even say that Tom had not only gone home but had subsequently died of cancer . |
| 8 | Murder was to make him something he had always suspected he might be , but had never dreamed of becoming — interesting . |
| 9 | In a statement read to the inquest , she told how her husband of 11 years had been having difficulty sleeping , but had never talked of suicide . |
| 10 | Daphne 's first suggestion was Alchemilla mollis , or lady 's mantle , a plant I already grow but had never thought of cutting . |