Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Qaddafi 's offers of union with Tunisia , Egypt , Syria and Morocco seem to indicate that he thinks of the Arab nation . |
| 2 | The subsequent release of 1,300 pages of witness interviews and depositions collected by the police during their investigation contained many inconsistencies , but appeared to contradict Senator Kennedy 's assertion that he learned of the alleged assault only after returning to Washington DC on April 1 . |
| 3 | If there is one danger facing Armani , it 's that of becoming trapped in his own stereotype ; when the day finally comes that he tires of the simple suit and sensational jacket , the world may just insist that he keeps on making them . |
| 4 | Feldstein told Holly at what time they went over to the Kitchen for the evening 's food and he spoke of the compulsory attendance afterwards at the Political Education Unit . |
| 5 | And if he knew of the wanton pictures chasing one another through her head his insulting opinion of her would no doubt be confirmed . |
| 6 | But he spoke of the Italian traders as exploiters of Spain and Gaul ( fr. 116–17 ) and showed how the native defenders of Numantia valued freedom ( Diod. 34.4.1–2 ) . |
| 7 | Among Wright 's many charitable actions was the building of the church of St Martin at Osmaston ( because he disapproved of the high-church tendencies of the parish church ) and the founding of Trent College in 1866 , one of whose houses was named after Wright . |
| 8 | IAN Gow , the Conservative member for Eastbourne , is famed for three things : a doglike devotion to the Prime Minister , a deadpan sense of humour , and his quixotic resignation as housing minister because he disapproved of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 9 | It is not precisely clear when he knew of the extra cases . |
| 10 | Roger Duvoisin ( 1965 , p.25 ) extends this idea when he speaks of the well-designed page . |
| 11 | The presenter of This Is Your Life flinches when he speaks of the recent major surgery on Patrick 's hip . |
| 12 | Thus the Englishman , familiar with his Rhaetian sediments at the top of the Trias , can not but be astounded when he reads of the Rhaetian deposits of Thailand and finds them described as black pyritous shales with Rhaetavicula contorta , resting on red marls and sandstones , with evaporites , just like those of the Severn cliffs . |
| 13 | When he heard of the multiple deaths , he committed suicide by throwing himself under a lorry . |
| 14 | The hon. Member for Westminster , North touched on that , but he was not convincing when he spoke of the underlying causes of that crime . |
| 15 | The author warms to his subject when he writes of the Peninsular War . |
| 16 | For six years , on battlefields and in sieges , they had fought side by side and Harper , as soon as he heard of the new war , had waited for a word from his old officer . |
| 17 | At times he would brood gloomily as he thought of the future course of the Reformation . |
| 18 | Afterwards , they lay silently together and as he thought of the recent conversation with Giancarlo he slowly ran his finger along her hip-bone and down towards her inner thigh . |
| 19 | He was breathing quickly , his nostrils pinching in as he thought of the coming confrontation with his wife . |
| 20 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
| 21 | Educated at Luddesdown before taking his degree at Oxford in 1738 , he was well acquainted with this area for he writes of the old Chapel at Upper Hailing . |