Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] of [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought of her in 1955 when I was in Kenya at the height of the Mau Mau and saw hungry children huddled in corners of African huts . |
| 2 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
| 3 | The New Party made some members when they started , but when they turned themselves into the Fascist Party er they they rid of themselves of many of these er New Party peop , was in the New Party you know . |
| 4 | Crouched over the table at home endeavouring to scarf up all those little facts they required of you in those days ( what is Bauxite ? when should you employ j'eusse , tu eusses , il eusse ? what are the consequences of heating copper in a stream of chlorine gas ? ) and praying that the fuckers would leave the lights on until you 'd done just this bit ? |
| 5 | It was a relief when others came , others who took no notice of her but , if they thought of her at all , must think her as seasoned a traveller as they . |
| 6 | The villagers spoke French ; indeed , they thought of themselves as French citizens and consequently welcomed the helmeted Dragoons with cups of wine and offers of food . |
| 7 | African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives . |
| 8 | They spoke of nothing in particular — holidays , films — and by the time Mrs Aitken appeared in the doorway , carrying aloft a flaming baked Alaska , the tension in Shiona had all but vanished . |
| 9 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 10 | What he thought of Canon Wheeler , if he thought of him at all , he had never , in his gentlemanly fashion , revealed to anyone . |
| 11 | His memories of Sarah were as strong as ever , but he thought of her with mixed emotions . |
| 12 | He thought of her with shocked tenderness and a kind of sad humility . |
| 13 | Miss Groundwater — he found that he thought of her in this way again , as a fillip to rage — was seated at her mirror , already in her nightgown , brushing out her hair . |
| 14 | He was wearing his captain 's uniform with meticulous correctness but with a consciously satirical air , ‘ as though he thought of it as fancy dress . ’ |
| 15 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
| 16 | In the past , he had only ever spoken well of his mother , when he spoke of her at all . |
| 17 | When he spoke of himself with evident authority as ‘ the senior Vietnam veteran on active duty ’ you could read the subtext as if it was in neon : if I am prepared to give my commander-in-chief unquestioned respect , so should you . |