Example sentences of "they have [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they were concerned about rumours they 'd heard of staff shortages within the C E D G. |
| 2 | I asked my friends who have had au pairs what they 'd expected of them in the kitchen . |
| 3 | She would compare the snaps they 'd taken of Peter on the lawn in the summer with the photographs of John as a baby . |
| 4 | He was telling me that they 'd died of the frost or something . |
| 5 | So 1799 was a signal year for W. C. T. in more ways than one : he was now a respectable businessman with a respectable wife , and a Freeman of the City to boot — what can they have thought of all that back in Pig Street , Frome ? |
| 6 | And although they shared I.A. Richards 's impatience with the existing chaos of critical theories , and his desire for some scientific order in the study of literature , they would certainly not have endorsed his view that literary theory should be concerned with experience or with value ; nor would they have approved of his recourse to neuro-physiology or psychology as a means of making literary criticism more scientific . |
| 7 | Meanwhile the I R A in a statement from Dublin have admitted they shot and seriously wounded an army careers officer in North London yesterday evening , and they 've warned of further attacks in Britain . |
| 8 | I do n't know what , how much they 've kept of the er place at the back . |
| 9 | They 've thought of this : |
| 10 | There 's a , there 's a lot of dead people not dead cos their dead because they 've died of old age , dead because they were trying to find out how things work . |
| 11 | The exquisite creation they had made of their own lives blinded them to the aspirations of less fortunate men and women . |
| 12 | Even the fine portrait bust they had made of her did no justice to her living beauty . |
| 13 | They had eaten of the forbidden fruit of knowledge and had been cast out of paradise . |
| 14 | The hospital would ring him in the morning to warn him of what they had discovered of Mrs Popple 's death upon doing the post-mortem . |
| 15 | Curiously enough , there 's even a hint of a good age for Black artists : in the 1950s , before the Notting Hill race riots of 1958 and before the era of public subsidies , when Denis Bowen of the New Vision Centre and Victor Musgrave of Gallery One consistently showed unknown international artists , many of whom had turned up in London in the post-coronation years because they had heard of the Commonwealth . |
| 16 | It said they all stood with bowed heads at the start of the meeting after they had heard of his death , ‘ and there was a silence that could be felt … . ’ |
| 17 | But as we talked the matter over , I thought I heard , in the background , a droning unbodied voice explain that the robbers were young , socially deprived victims of the Thatcherite era of greed and exploitation , not to be blamed for acquiring , by unorthodox means , some of the luxury goods they had heard of from capitalist advertisers who had wickedly aroused their consumerist aspirations . |
| 18 | But the novelists had never heard of Marx and Engels — and if they had heard of them and their ideas , they would probably have recoiled in horror , perceiving the threat to their own privileged position . |
| 19 | They told chairman Michael Croucher that it was only by accident they had heard of the proposals and they were concerned that no-one had told them . |
| 20 | They had heard of Oyston , who had originally been contacted as a cold call , but they had never met him . |
| 21 | I 'm certain that those of us who heard Mike Save The Children 's overseas director on the Today programme or our field director in Angola on the evening television news yesterday , can have hold nothing but pride , what they had to say of Save The Children 's work in that country , a country described as the heart of darkness a country with the world 's worse infant mortality rate . |
| 22 | Tesco accused the same large headhunting firm with whom they had dealt of adopting a blasé attitude caused by processing a too rapid and too large turnover of assignments , whereas Merton had apparently provided individual attention and a fresh approach to the problem . |
| 23 | It was something they had dreamed of many times . |
| 24 | They had dreamed of somewhere that was beyond the fence . |
| 25 | For when they had wearied of hurling insults at my father 's back , the two gentlemen began to discuss their host — that is to say , my father 's employer , Mr John Silvers . |
| 26 | The area was so poor that even the dead rats in the street looked as though they had died of hunger . |
| 27 | Even then , habit and a stubborn trust that our audience spied upon us from behind then nearest bush , forced our bodies to blunder on long after they had emptied of meaning , until like runaway carts they dragged to a halt . |
| 28 | But Floy was still sickened ; he remembered how on Renascia they had tried to follow what they had known of the Earth-people 's death rituals and how they had had the large , austere Firehouse with the ornate bronze lamps which were always kept burning in memory of those who had died . |
| 29 | It was a paper devoid of politics and did n't represent any of the spirit they had thought of and encapsulated in the Charter . |
| 30 | But surely they had thought of everything . |