Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | I suddenly thought of a way I could help Herbert . |
| 32 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |
| 33 | He suddenly thought of Marcus . |
| 34 | He suddenly thought of using it to play a joke on some of his friends at the Post , concealed it in his newspaper and left the pub . |
| 35 | For no good reason she suddenly thought of the bruise on his cheek , the slight blue stain he had tried to hide from her , and burst into angry tears as she ran . |
| 36 | Certainly she found him so , despite what he so obviously thought of her , and as the kiss deepened she felt sleepy and warm and pliant — the nicest thing ever to have happened — and then bereft when he broke the gentle exploration . |
| 37 | We only spoke of happy things … ’ |
| 38 | Aristos of Salamis in Cyprus , who probably lived in the middle of the third century B.C. , is said by Arrian ( 7.15.5 ) to have been one of the two historians who not only spoke of an embassy of the Romans to Alexander the Great , but made Alexander prophesy the future greatness of Rome , so impressed was he by the envoys . |
| 39 | In his speech on 1 May 1936 , he merely spoke of ‘ elements ’ sowing the seeds of international unrest , but his hints were immediately recognized by the audience , which howled : ‘ the Jews ’ . |
| 40 | She wondered why they constantly complained of stomach pains until she caught the woman redhanded . |
| 41 | cos trolley buses , in this town were really the erm well I suppose they really came about , rather than motor buses right at the start because built trolley buses and so did of Laiston . |
| 42 | Miss Baye somewhat defensively said of ‘ Lies ’ that ‘ AIDS is a subject like any other . ’ |
| 43 | As McFarlane so aptly and untruthfully said of the Saudi contribution , ‘ the concrete character of that is beyond my ken . ’ |
| 44 | Cartographic logic suggests it was in fact an isolated hill that stands above the headwaters of the Rio Congo — an unspectacular 1,800 ft-high hillock , somewhat denuded of trees , a short distance away from a rudimentary track ( made by wild pigs , or cattle , or perhaps by people long ago ) which can still be discerned in the jungle . |
| 45 | But it only remained of crucial importance to that small minority of bigoted constables who classify all Catholics as equally evil and nefarious . |
| 46 | They duly disposed of India in the semi-final , only to lose to Australia in a game they should have won . |
| 47 | Accordingly , he was granted and Empire title challenge in 1931 at Leicester where he duly disposed of England 's Phil Scott in under two rounds . |
| 48 | Little came of this but in the next decade , the 1790s , the French armies were to use the large-scale production of hydrogen by decomposition to some effect when balloons first found military use . |
| 49 | Little came of this , partly because of the resistance from regional newspapers , and partly because of the Jacobin traditions of a government little inclined to decentralize . |
| 50 | These various schemes proved problematic , however , and little came of Coxe 's ambitions , though they were briefly the subject of government interest in 1719 , when the question arose of the English title to this part of America . |
| 51 | In this case , what started out as a sideline soon became of major importance . |
| 52 | I would have thought if she would have sat in the chair , I mean well she could n't go the week aha I do n't young enough yeah , about a month ago she just peed of somewhere and some , I do n't know , she 's alright , I said yes she 'll be alright , I said I 'm going to start cooking so she said I got to take these Heather , I said well they 'll travel better in there , your father said you know Jane he said if you 'd given her a hand |
| 53 | To admit to being innocent of guile somehow smacked of being undesirable , immature , but far better that than be thought an actress . |
| 54 | Had it been Alex Household who had been shot , the situation would have been different , because she so patently disapproved of him , but with Michael Banks as the victim , it was difficult to cast her in the role of murderer . |
| 55 | It is better to judge him on his reappearance run at Chepstow when , despite being 11 kilos overweight , according to trainer Martin Pipe , he easily disposed of Run And Skip , with Little Polveir beaten out of sight . |
| 56 | However , those in charge of the employers ' side soon learnt of this , and special trains were engaged , with all the doors of the carriages locked . |
| 57 | We spent the rest of the day recovering from our journey and doing our best to avoid the other members of the household , who soon learnt of our failure and hid their satisfaction behind smug looks or sour smiles . |
| 58 | The gold coinage of the period was suffering a considerable debasement ( whereby the alloy progressively consisted of less gold and more silver ) , and the metal analysis of the royal pieces has allowed the stages of this debasement to be dated . |
| 59 | I already approved of it . |
| 60 | The sessions largely consisted of assurances from DEC of its continued commitment to the OSF/1 operating system on the MIPS line , in the face of surprisingly strong customer reaction to the news of DEC 's recent pronouncements that it would only offer OSF/1 for Alpha ( UX No 386 ) . |