Example sentences of "had [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , in the last analysis he was most influenced by the composite picture he had formed of Iberian art he had seen , although one particular head which remained in the Louvre seems especially relevant to the central figures of the great canvas . |
| 2 | His words emphasised the racial element in the picture my imagination had formed of him . |
| 3 | Kelly had expected that Jack Butler would live up to the image she had painted of him in her mind . |
| 4 | But I did n't know who that man was — until I found a portrait she had painted of you . ’ |
| 5 | From what I had gathered of her dinner with him in town , despite her obvious pleasure in meeting him again , she had given the poor man a straight brush-off . |
| 6 | It is a cruel irony of the Battle of Verdun that the outlying forts that Joffre , deeming them useless , had stripped of their guns , were found to have withstood constant bombardment by both sides for many months almost unscathed . |
| 7 | The association said that it had heard of several cases in which EHOs had ordered unacceptable action from wine and drinks wholesalers under the 1990 Food Safety Act . |
| 8 | ‘ Nobody south of Perth had heard of malt whisky in those days , ’ he said , ‘ so I took a bottle and six glasses into my final crit . |
| 9 | His major work was done in Russia in the 1930s and 1940s , he suffered Stalinist repression , was partly rehabilitated , and died in 1975 , at a time when very few people in the West had heard of him . |
| 10 | In equal isolation at the Intercontinental Hotel , 16 miles away , Lebanese journalists found themselves restricted to the parliament 's two opening statements and a diet of gentle assurances from Prince Saud al-Feisel , the Saudi Foreign Minister , that optimism was the order of the day , but while he had heard of some disputes in the parliamentary chamber , he had every reason to believe the Lebanese would accept the Arab League peace plan . |
| 11 | Pearce expressed surprise and said that this was the first he had heard of it . |
| 12 | Whether Annie and Lizzie had heard of the Sunday visit or had marked her absence was n't clear but they appeared almost conciliatory compared to previous days . |
| 13 | He had heard of Chinese rooms , heard of Chinese Chippendale , but he had never seen a room furnished in the style . |
| 14 | In 1984 Birthright had an income of £600,000 , and very few people had heard of it . |
| 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 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 17 | ‘ A pity it 's necessary — unexpected drama , I mean , ’ said Jane , thinking of the stories she had heard of the bonhomie of the war , in contrast with the stiff , glib cult of the eighties . |
| 18 | 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 … . ’ |
| 19 | The essential discovery , now that everyone had heard of Freud , was that guilt could be harnessed to salesmanship . |
| 20 | ‘ Ari , ’ she said , not wanting to add her surname in case these colleagues of Roirbak 's had heard of Ewan . |
| 21 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 22 | He added , alarmingly , of the November shipment : ‘ I know that that is in my memory that I had heard of France being connected with such a thing . ’ |
| 23 | No one among the instructors or instructees at London 's trendy Pineapple Dance studios had heard of these things , or thought the idea would catch on . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Anne had heard of him , and not just from Nina . |
| 26 | He had heard of that brand of peculiarity before . |
| 27 | This was the first I had heard of Leslie 's alleged connection with ‘ D ’ Squadron . |
| 28 | Nunn had heard of the arrests , both at Holborn and at Bracknell , and guessed that Shorter was much demoralised and nervous . |
| 29 | The two American researchers say that , despite some of the workers having 20 years ' experience in the electricity industry , none of the workers had heard of sulphur hexafluoride , nor did they know that their work could lead to exposure to irritant gases . |
| 30 | 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 . |