Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [adv] [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The priapic practitioner , ’ said Lydia , who had just thought of this appellation . |
| 2 | Betty who had nearly died of fear now felt almost dead with relief and crept to Lydia to remonstrate with her . |
| 3 | Mill , the son of James Mill [ q.v. ] , philosopher , who had strongly disapproved of the connection , became estranged from his family after the marriage . |
| 4 | With our extraordinary background , Brian and I lacked the ability to cope with our contemporaries ; as English boys who had barely heard of cricket we were natural targets . |
| 5 | To the people who had already heard of her illness and sent her cards and good wishes Molly sends her grateful thanks . |
| 6 | Poole , as one who had already thought of emigrating to America , listened sympathetically ; but he saw at once that the scheme could never succeed , remarking to a friend that however perfectible human nature might be , it was ‘ not yet perfect enough ’ for Pantisocracy . |
| 7 | Her last wish , to be buried in her husband 's grave , was vociferously opposed by Dr Kavanagh , who had neither known of the relationship nor been invited to the wedding . |
| 8 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 9 | I lost 28 men , simple peasants who had never heard of Karl Marx or Toby Low . ’ |
| 10 | We also achieved a few column inches in the Focus paper and brought the NCT to the attention of many people who had never heard of us before . |
| 11 | I spoke with the MM who had never heard of me , never read anything I had written and never heard anything I 've said on radio , e.g. to callers on advice line phone-ins . |
| 12 | Dorothy 's Journals provide a record of the tour , which involved the use of a vehicle described as ‘ an Irish jaunting car ’ ; they made a pilgrimage to the grave of Burns and visited Sir Walter Scott , whose Lay of the Last Minstrel was to introduce the new metre of Christabel to a public who had never heard of the source . |
| 13 | Bonefish , in brief , was a very good man who had never heard of Sir Thomas Breakspear , and I was a very lucky man for the fortunate accident of having met Bonefish . |
| 14 | Elsewhere in the café , one of Sunsail 's flotilla skippers was explaining the difference between a sheet and a halyard to some Germans who had never heard of either . |
| 15 | This was the first time I had ever encountered anyone walking into a cathedral who had never heard of Jesus Christ . |
| 16 | Amaranth , who had never heard of the Goodharts , said how much she had enjoyed the party . |
| 17 | ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it . |
| 18 | Instead , his two stony-faced sisters , who had never approved of him , led the mourners with their husbands . |
| 19 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or who who had recently had of a child . |