Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My GP visited me and I still have the drawing he did of the cancer they had found in my kidney . |
| 2 | From the moment he knew of the baby : ‘ We must do nothing , ’ he said , ‘ nothing to endanger my son … ’ |
| 3 | When I felt able , I returned to the house where Lem , the embalmer 's brother , gave me all the particulars he had of the accident and suggested the police department would have any further details . |
| 4 | In a emotional 20-minute speech during a surprise appearance at a service at King 's College Chapel in Cambridge he spoke of the importance of freedom in the face of the edict . |
| 5 | When he had started to prepare his notes for this occasion , he was overwhelmed by private memories : St Louis was the place of his birth , and Washington University itself owed its foundation to his grandfather ; and when in the lecture he spoke of the characteristics of a national literature , and American literature in particular , as " a strong local flavour combined with an unconscious universality " it is clear to what locale he belongs . |
| 6 | After visiting the police incident room he spoke of the country 's revulsion at the bombing and said : ‘ Everything will be done to bring those responsible to justice and every effort is being put in to make sure that we do . ’ |
| 7 | During his illness he dreamt of the after-life , where kings , rulers and princes were reduced from their high station to fetching and carrying as servants , and only the high priests , gods and one or two favoured dead kings were allowed to preserve their earthly privileges . |
| 8 | On the windswept hill above the Imjin river he heard of the advance of some 27,000 Chinese troops and the efforts of the ‘ Glorious Glosters ’ , outnumbered 10 to one , to block their way through to the South Korean capital Seoul . |
| 9 | And the description he gave of the girl was a perfect portrait of Sandy . |
| 10 | Wulfstan was not interested in recording this , presumably because as he thought that a king should levy only light taxes he disapproved of the procedure . |
| 11 | Charlie turned , smiled , and that was the last thing he remembered of the Battle of the Lys . |
| 12 | Just as his repeated and heartfelt defences of monogamy are all part of the complex and muddled or profound idea he had of the division of responsibility and territory between different degrees of love , different qualities of sexual encounter . |
| 13 | In return , William was required to recognize that , since the fief he held of the bishop was now larger than those any other lord had bestowed on him , he ought to be ‘ a better man ’ of the bishop than of any of his other lords . |
| 14 | In his speech he spoke of the forces interested in a revanchist coup in Russia . |
| 15 | Will the right hon. Gentleman remind the House how much warning time he had of the conflict in the Gulf , how much warning he expects to have from the IRA before any outrage and how much warning he expects of the consequences of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the activities of extremists like Mr. Le Pen in France ? |