Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] of [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 2 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
| 3 | Politically speaking the issue of local autonomy and sovereignty scarcely ever arose : people recognized popular committees as valuable means of access to resources ; in their democratic aspect most educated Libyans thought of them as rhetorical devices , not really conferring power on a community , but representing curious elaborations of ideology in what was really a simple and straightforward problem of administration of services . |
| 4 | 10,000 children died of it in 1859 , and from the 1870s until the turn of the century there was little downward trend in deaths . |
| 5 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 6 | Hank , when Mrs Stych thought of him at all , always gave her a headache . |