Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny , and the illustrations were a bit tasteless . |
| 2 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 3 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 4 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 5 | I felt somewhat of a tragic character . |
| 6 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 7 | In my A stream class at " the convent " I knew none of the other girls and rarely saw my former classmates . |
| 8 | Emilia , I think it of the utmost importance that … ’ |
| 9 | Again I accept the constant parental care has been of the highest calibre and I remind myself of the many tributes to the quality of that care in the evidence before me . |
| 10 | I remind him of the disproportionate harm that the MacSharry proposals would cause and seek his assurance that he will bear in mind the Scottish farmers and all those elsewhere in Britain when he represents the interests of the British Government and the British farmer in Europe . |
| 11 | Another time perhaps you will listen to me when I warn you of the dangerous ground you are treading . ’ |
| 12 | I had none of the schizoid suicide 's delusions about being able to survive my own death . |
| 13 | How do you know which of the thousands of children 's books published every year are best for your own , individual children ? |
| 14 | ‘ Do you know anything of the Old Ones , or the carvings that are in the museum ? ’ |
| 15 | She has plenty of the proper sort . ’ |
| 16 | She instanced her of a long line of lagers , I consumed three Waistwatchers , two Seckburgers , an American Way and a double order of Tuckleberry Pie . |
| 17 | ‘ Have you seen owt of a black dog ? ’ said Jack to Philip . |
| 18 | The main aim of this Prospectus is to help you choose which of the many courses is most suitable for your needs . |
| 19 | Telling the story , as she imagined it of the mad wife . |
| 20 | Now have you got plenty of the wee tablets or are you finished ? |
| 21 | She said she knew nothing of a sectarian feud in the old days of Stormy Hill but if she did it was not the kind of thing you discussed with strangers , I sensed . |
| 22 | She knew nothing of the real woman behind it . |
| 23 | Can you tell me of an English poet staying in these parts ? ’ |
| 24 | She saw nothing of the pale green clusters of new leaves adorning the elm trees , nor did she see the arum lilies glowing with white purity beneath them . |
| 25 | With him , she felt none of the seething intoxication of love or lust or whatever it was which called her to Cameron . |
| 26 | Lucy herself said she remembered nothing of the dreadful cockchafer affair . |
| 27 | She reminded him of a young colt : there were moments when her legs seemed much too long and her posture quite unladylike — and others when , caught unawares in a reverie , she had all the poise of a marquesa . |
| 28 | A 19-year-old brunette who worked in ‘ Back and Sides ’ , an Arden hairdresser 's , she reminded him of the young Alma Cogan . |
| 29 | Years later she reminded me of a forgotten and to me everyday kind of question . |
| 30 | She had such colour , such brightness , that sometimes she reminded me of the whirling mosaics , except that she was n't fragmented but unusually complete . |