Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This famous author of 3,000 ‘ incomparable ’ ( Byron ) letters , among other largely dilettante activities , showed by a letter written to Sir Horace Mann on 8 June 1791 that he knew of the 1788 Kentish Town Act , which freed the Earl of Camden to build 1,400 houses in Kentish Town . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | And if he knew of the wanton pictures chasing one another through her head his insulting opinion of her would no doubt be confirmed . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is not precisely clear when he knew of the extra cases . |
| 9 | When he heard of the multiple deaths , he committed suicide by throwing himself under a lorry . |
| 10 | The hon. Member for Westminster , North touched on that , but he was not convincing when he spoke of the underlying causes of that crime . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At times he would brood gloomily as he thought of the future course of the Reformation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was breathing quickly , his nostrils pinching in as he thought of the coming confrontation with his wife . |
| 15 | ‘ I have a sweet tooth , ’ he said blandly as he disposed of the fourth . |