Example sentences of "[that] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] of " in BNC.

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1 The first indication that Richard Branson had of his young protégé 's dramatic metamorphosis came with a telephone call .
2 Small wonder that this plot is barely discernible in modern performances of ‘ Toad of Toad Hall ’ , the play that A.A. Milne wrote of ‘ The Wind in the Willows ’ in 1930 .
3 Though the shooting on the film set , if it was n't accidental , implied that Nigel Steen knew of his involvement , he still might not have realized the direct connection with Jacqui , and certainly was no nearer getting the Hereford Road address .
4 So cold was the weather that Sergeant Phillips died of hypothermia on only the second night .
5 I know that Pam Palmer said of one of her friends whose husband who 's having he did n't like his work .
6 Assuming that product BNH consists of 20,000 units , what is the unit cost of BNH ?
7 ( 6 ) is very similar : given the opinion that Sir Jee had of himself , he could not understand what could lead someone to speak to him in such a way .
8 After what we saw and felt last night , we can not be surprised that Sir Charles died of fright .
9 A statement from Cleveland Police said : ‘ Following inquiries , it is now believed that Mr MacDonald died of natural causes . ’
10 The success that Mr Clinton made of his economic package — the speed with which Congress passed his deficit-reduction measures , the positive reaction in the markets — convinced too many that he would turn all he touched to gold .
11 Mr Sheffield accepted a pathologist 's report that Mr Owens died of shock due to massive abdominal haemorrhage .
12 He recorded a verdict that Mr Crossthwaite died of a prescribed disease .
13 You will recall that Mrs Carrington spoke of her husband losing his rationality , and yet that he wanted to retain control over his fate .
14 All that Mrs Browning required of her , surely , was that she should be docile and self-contained and grateful .
15 I saw that Mrs Fairfax approved of my correct behaviour , and I knew that he respected me for it .
16 But if the physical violence that Dick Francis writes of so well , without glorying in it , without dismissing it in the way cruder writers do as they allow a hero to leap into action after some terrible beating-up if this does not fire your imagination you can still write suspense novels that will satisfy readers every bit as well .
17 Does this remark mean that Pope John approved of the curially prepared texts , and hoped that they would win unanimous acceptance ?
18 These men are also frequently by their misfortunes raised into the greatest benefit that Charles Lamb wrote of as being his fortune to realise after long years of being a poor man in time to be lifted into a vast inheritance .
19 The autopsy report stated that Agit Salman died of a heart attack .
20 Now er Paddy Ashdown has also said that anything that Nick Harvey approves of er he will approve of so we can quote Paddy er the same er at er at some suitable point , for example in advance of the May elections .
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