Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He only knew of the life he had led in the baby-farming house , one of seventeen young children . |
| 2 | But sometimes he only thought of the next performance . |
| 3 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |
| 4 | Leonora felt a sudden pang to learn he still thought of the fair Melanie as a Vaughan . |
| 5 | He always thought of the Cold War as a deal between cynical power brokers and military-industrial magnates with money to make from mega-deaths . |
| 6 | He also wrote of the superstition , the human passions and the religious representations that interfered with the observation and application of reason which should lead to knowledge . |
| 7 | He also knew of the discovery of gold rings and chains . |
| 8 | Though assuring them that Kazakhstan , Byelarus and Ukraine had undertaken to give up their nuclear weapons , he also warned of the danger of social unrest in the former Soviet Union . |
| 9 | Does he also approve of the scandalous racketeering by the gas , electricity and British Telecom undertakings in imposing huge standing charges , which often amount to more than 50 per cent . |
| 10 | But he also spoke of the kingdom being present on earth now , in a way that pointed forward to the fullness of its coming in the future . |
| 11 | He also spoke of the motivation and enjoyment he had derived from Young Enterprise and the confidence he had gained from this knowledge that he did possess significant , relevant abilities school just had not teased them out before . |
| 12 | He also spoke of the need to redress the ‘ gender gap ’ between men and women voters . |
| 13 | He also spoke of the need for a multiparty system to be explained to and accepted by " the supporters of the current regime " . |
| 14 | He also knows of the existence of at least half a dozen hypermarkets which have a shoppers ' profile that includes every socioeconomic category , and which sell all three types of bread . |
| 15 | But then he also talked of the power of the mind and maybe that was part of the reassurance . |
| 16 | The president of the employers ' federation , the Union Patronale de Côte d'Ivoire ( UPACI ) , Joseph Aka Anghui , cited rampant fraud , inefficient bureaucracy , price controls and high taxes as key problems affecting industry ; he also complained of the failure of government bodies to meet their debts to the private sector . |
| 17 | He immediately thought of the dogs . |
| 18 | He immediately thought of the envelope , with the valentine , that Boldwood had shown him , and suspected Bathsheba of encouraging the farmer to fall in love with her . |
| 19 | Not because he particularly approves of the exploitation of Henderson Island , but because he hopes that this latest development will force the government to come to some decision about the future of Pitcairn . |
| 20 | But he strongly disapproved of the proselytizing that went on under the cloak of humanitarianism . |
| 21 | He sometimes speaks of the scientific method as one of the possible methods of responding to doubt , sometimes as a ‘ way of life ’ , but he always seems to see it as optional though supremely rational . |
| 22 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |
| 23 | It was only when he was sitting in the back of the car that he actually thought of the risk he was taking . |
| 24 | The basis of his love is imaginative desire : he never speaks of the person that lies beneath ‘ Her eyes , her hair , her cheek , her gait , her voice ’ . |
| 25 | For the first 11 of those paddling years he never heard of the BCU and it was only through his activities with the Air Training Corps and their involvement with the Devizes to Westminster Race that he got drawn into the position of race Publicity Officer which he has held since the late 70s . |
| 26 | He never spoke of the tragedy which had driven him into seclusion . |
| 27 | ’ But he never spoke of the pitiful way in which the soul bowed its head humbly and submissively before the Lad . |
| 28 | Then , in 1811 , he cruelly disposed of the remaining senior mamluks , massacring them after entertaining them to a feast in the citadel . |