Example sentences of "[vb past] of [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While men like Thomas Howard , Duke of Norfolk , and Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester , were prepared to accept the royal supremacy , they baulked at these evangelical reforms , which in their view smacked of heresy and threatened to lead England into the Lutheran camp . |
| 2 | The rooms were cold and empty , and they smelled of dust and glue size . |
| 3 | You might be interested to know that I first learnt of CPRW while rummaging through old papers left by the Misses Keating — and there were many ! |
| 4 | She obviously thoroughly disapproved of holidays and spent all her time polishing the plastic . ’ |
| 5 | The good days were starvation days , and the bad days consisted of bingeing and vomiting . |
| 6 | The third Duma consisted of people that had been arranged by the Tsar . |
| 7 | When he did talk of an independent Scotland , he talked of bankers and making a new Switzerland . |
| 8 | While Henry II talked of peace and allowed first Geoffrey and then Henry to pull the wool over his eyes , Richard 's duchy was slipping away from him . |
| 9 | He conceived of mind and matter as two substances , the relation between which can only be a causal one . |
| 10 | She thought of Mortimer and shivered slightly . |
| 11 | For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’ |
| 12 | During the months of recuperation and the months of rediscovering himself as a changed person , a quick-tempered , irritable person , nervous and hypochondriacal , Tom thought of sex and love as remote concepts that were not for him , that were ridiculous for him to consider . |
| 13 | I , and the rest of the family , laid back , thought of England and enjoyed it , because it is an impossible car not to enjoy |
| 14 | Suddenly I thought of Anne and felt impelled to rebel . |
| 15 | But because these social theorists recognized the possibility of a stage-by-stage perfectibility of human society , they implicitly thought of culture as superimposed upon nature . |
| 16 | Then she thought of Loulou and felt confused . |
| 17 | Then he thought of Billie and hoped she was safe . |
| 18 | He thought of Maeve and realised how desperately he missed her . |
| 19 | She looked at it and could see no fault ; she thought of Lucy and did n't care . |
| 20 | Sometimes Harriet wondered why they did not suggest that Liza brought the baby to see them , but then she thought of Lilian and knew the answer . |
| 21 | Then she thought of Hector and smiled . |
| 22 | Then he thought of Benedicta and felt a twinge of doubt . |
| 23 | I saw Jews going about and thought of Daisy and Joszef this fourth Christmas of their marriage . |
| 24 | The woman who died of cancer and left the poems expressing her soul 's pain written over twenty years of marriage on the kitchen window sill , for her husband to find , was saying that no one in that house had respected her pain sufficiently to share it . |
| 25 | While in detention he was ‘ shaken and poked ’ , deprived of sleep and held hooded and handcuffed in a freezing hallway . |
| 26 | All she knew of self and love she knew through Fenna , and now she had to send him away . |
| 27 | He came back and used another word I knew of course but had never heard my father , or any adult , say before . |
| 28 | Five per cent complained of diarrhoea that resolved after a slight reduction of the bile acid medication . |
| 29 | Party officials complained of irregularities and called on the UN to rerun the election in at least seven provinces . |
| 30 | On May 11 she was at Camp IV ( 7,900m ) on the north side of the mountain with her companion Carlos Carsolio , where she complained of sickness and did not eat well . |