Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd dreamt of coming near the mountains and the sea and were out for a drive one Sunday afternoon with that idea in the back of our minds . |
| 2 | The girl spent a long time wondering whether she could pluck up courage to mention she 'd thought of going to the Swimming Gala if her mother really felt there was nothing she could do . |
| 3 | Once established , it will not be got rid of save at the cost of the organism on which it has bred ; like Iago 's ‘ invention ’ , it ‘ plucks out brains and all ’ . |
| 4 | Furious at the strong wave of protectiveness that washed over him , despite all his suspicions , Guy bit out a curse that , in normal circumstances , he would n't have dreamed of using in the hearing of a woman . |
| 5 | If he had never seen that leaflet pinned up on the Catholic Society notice-board at college , he would never have dreamt of participating in the pilgrimage . |
| 6 | Mr Engholm had thought of resigning after the Social Democrats ' battering at local elections in Hesse last March . |
| 7 | He looked at me , as if I had talked of going to the North Pole . ’ |
| 8 | The presence of a very occasional lesser white-fronted goose from Scandinavia on the reclaimed land of the Severn is well-known to have been a crucial factor in Sir Peter Scott 's choice of site for the new wildfowl refuge and research station he had dreamed of creating during the War . |
| 9 | Throughout that decade he had complained of overcrowding at the workhouse , particularly of elderly women . |
| 10 | For the oddities I have spoken of go to the newspapers and novels of the period , where there are such things . |