Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rogers is now established as a United first-teamer , and Bassett said of 20-year-old Scott : ‘ He also has the potential to make the grade . ’ |
| 2 | He pinned her down at the CI5 computer centre , and over the phone briefly explained what he and Doyle needed of her . |
| 3 | The factory had lost £10m in five years and Timex despaired of making it profitable by world standards . |
| 4 | Parliament merely welcomed the proposals and Churchill warned of ‘ a dangerous optimism ’ and the raising of ‘ false hopes ’ . |
| 5 | Then we lowered the sail and sat in the sun , and Pierre spoke of the lot he and his fellow villagers had been born to , the weeks at sea , the gales , the great hauls of fish , the hardships and achievements of a Breton fisherman 's life , while we ate the food he had brought with him , and drank his rough cider . |
| 6 | ‘ He was the greatest military leader I ever met , ’ Otto Kretschmer had said , and Jenisch spoke of him as ‘ the father of us all ’ . |
| 7 | Pierre Naville , for instance , enthused that we should get pleasure from the streets of the city in which kiosks , autos , and lights were in a sense already representations , and Breton spoke of the world as ‘ automatic writing ’ ( Krauss 1985b , p. 99 ) . |
| 8 | Thus Naville enthused that we should get pleasure from the streets of the city in which kiosks , autos , and lights were in a sense already representations , and Breton spoke of the world itself as ‘ automatic writing ’ . |
| 9 | Peter and Ann despaired of Jacqueline , but feared her destructive urges . |
| 10 | Berle met Michael Wright , counsellor at the British embassy in Washington , on 21 October , and Wright talked of a ‘ head-on collision ’ of US and British policies . |
| 11 | And Spencer spoke of the ability to understand an experience with the wisdom of a child plus the older experience of later years . |
| 12 | William Elstobb found the eighteenth-century fenmen content with ‘ uncomfortable accommodations ’ ; and Vancouver wrote of Burwell in 1794 : ‘ Any attempt in contemplation for the better drainage of this fen is considered hostile to the true interests of these deluded people . ’ |
| 13 | N M Rothschild and Tattersalls of Australia , the Rank Organization , and Camelot comprising of G Tec , De La Rue , Reikel , Cadbury Schweppes , and I C L. Installing computers and ticketing machines will be a key part of the job for any lottery operator . |
| 14 | And Casaubon says of his left-wing , bar-propping days in the early Seventies , ‘ I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to 12-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt . ’ |
| 15 | Simon and Nigel spoke of the history of their branch . |
| 16 | … and Lexandro heard of such incidents of the campaign as the Battle of the Glass Bell Temple , and of the Sixty Suicide Skaters who had swooped on Brothers of the Fourth Company clutching melta-bombs , and how the Fifth and Seventh and Eighth Companies had found themselves confronted , to their astonishment , by Titans … |
| 17 | However , there has been much change in the importance of individual waters , and the present concentration at Chichester and Rye seems of recent origin . |
| 18 | It seemed to be calling to them and Carrie thought of fairy tales she had read — you looked back at something behind you and were caught in its spell ! |
| 19 | The little stone winked like a red star in the firelight and Carrie thought of Mrs Gotobed , suddenly ; of the time she 'd had tea with her and of the way the flames danced in her rings as she stroked the silk of her dress . |
| 20 | Kirkby Stephen had a stocking market of renown and Southey wrote of ‘ the terrible knitters 'e Dent ’ , in The Doctor , 1834 . |
| 21 | During the 1980's , a series of superb Peter King Quartets and Quintets emerged of very great musical significance . |
| 22 | The sharp peaks are what Hoffman identified as the markers for 1461 and 2615 keV ; the signal that interested Fleischmann and Pons consists of the dotted structure around 2500 keV . |
| 23 | In the intertestamental days we read of the Messiah , ‘ God will make him mighty in the Holy Spirit ’ ( Psalms of Solomon 17:37 ) , and in the Targum or Commentary on Isaiah 42 : 1 , the Servant is seen as the Messiah , and God says of him ‘ I will cause my Holy Spirit to rest on him . ’ |
| 24 | Phizacklea and Miles warn of the limits of any strategy premised on the assumption ( made in the 1970s by the TUC and the Labour Party ) that ‘ the way to eliminate working-class racism was to provide counter-arguments to common racist beliefs ’ , to push out of workers ' heads an ideological baggage primarily produced by the dominant class and replace it by ‘ the truth ’ . |
| 25 | As May Sarton had said ( and Jay thought of May Sarton as a cross between a saint and a guru ) : The muse is always female . |
| 26 | Fourteen points put Master James eighth in the championship and Hesketh made of him a public figure , a British hope at a time when Graham Hill , Mike Hailwood and others were fading from the scene and Jackie Stewart was about to retire . |
| 27 | Everything Fiona and Tremayne believed of me must have looked inevitable at that moment . |
| 28 | In GynlEcology , discovering or recovering one 's own self is seen as akin to a process of salvation or religious rebirth , and Daly writes of what she calls the unveiling or unwinding of the ‘ shrouds ’ of patriarchy to reveal the authentic female Spirit-Self underneath . |
| 29 | Just what the scientists who investigated Shaw and Edwards thought of them is hard to say . |
| 30 | ‘ Miles , have you and Juliet thought of having a family ? ’ |