Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This convention retained something of the laconic style of drafting of its Latin American predecessors , and like them applied in principle to both the service of documents and the taking of evidence . |
| 2 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 3 | Ranu , a Sylheti woman in her late twenties , told me of the enveloping love and care a woman with her first or second child can receive in Bangladesh . |
| 4 | In most respects it was human in shape , but gigantic in stature , and there seemed nothing of the human being in the way it suddenly paced forward from the trees . |
| 5 | But from the tall , hawk-faced man beside her came nothing of the subtle serenity she hoped for , only a sense of controlled power that dispersed when he said prosaically , ‘ I 'm sorry , did I kick your ankle ? |
| 6 | By converting land into pasture for several years , the land has a chance to recover and rid itself of the heavy level of chemicals in its soil . |
| 7 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |
| 8 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 9 | Telling the story , as she imagined it of the mad wife . |
| 10 | Hilary assured us of the continuing interest in Medau in Britain shown by the Medau Schule in Germany and teachers will be very pleased to learn that a new movement block in Coburg is to be named after Molly . |
| 11 | Most of the unexpected visitors were passing girl-friends of Roger 's , so I was surprised when he informed me of the pending arrival of a very special girl-friend . |
| 12 | They preserved something of the golden age when , as Seneca says , " penes sapientes fuisse regnum Posidonius indicat " ( Ep . |
| 13 | Yet despite the vibrant colours Modigliani captured something of the wistful yearning of his nature . |
| 14 | He looked down at Thornton and informed him of the new management attitude . |
| 15 | The story told by German propaganda , however , betrayed nothing of the mounting hopelessness of the 6th Army 's position . |
| 16 | In doing so , he achieved something of the economic uplift associated with a move to the West , with little of the attendant culture shock , a fact which Glasgow can take as a kick in the groin or a pat on the back . |
| 17 | In 1935 Louis Aragon proudly proclaimed to the world that his encounter with communism and the revolutionary society of the Soviet Union had transformed him into an entirely new man , had rejuvenated him , re-educated him , and in the process cured him of the social disease of his bourgeois class origins . |
| 18 | Then , on April 8th , while on patrol the ‘ Lieutenant Mathematician ’ captured two German deserters , who conveniently warned them of the coming attack . |
| 19 | A commentator in the Financial Times delivered himself of the following judgment : ‘ Tripe is tripe : if it is not then what we have here is codswallop , tommyrot , drivel . |
| 20 | It was me who warned you of the Fascist element infiltrating at Danino 's . |
| 21 | She knew nothing of the real woman behind it . |
| 22 | The man , whoever it was , knew nothing of the correct use of his weapon . |
| 23 | Those are the innocent victims , who knew nothing of the serious fraud . |
| 24 | He said if anyone thought Michael Fallon knew nothing of the possible move ‘ they are absolutely out of their minds ’ . |
| 25 | For how could a reader who knew nothing of the original matter — the origin of the Silmarils , the rise and fall of Numenor , the triumphs and ultimate ruin of Gondolin , etc. — find a way in ? |
| 26 | That night , as she waited for the band to strike up her opening music , Rory felt none of the usual tingle of anticipation which made the whole business of singing so pleasurable . |
| 27 | With him , she felt none of the seething intoxication of love or lust or whatever it was which called her to Cameron . |
| 28 | The picture was clearly in her head , but it brought none of the old bitterness , because now she was seeing Alain , imagining him , and it wiped away the old grief . |
| 29 | He knew something of the new music , but neither the movement as a whole nor Wagner 's particular achievement within it meant anything special to him . |
| 30 | Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood . |