Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] of the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maclagan — jogged silently down the lock 's east wall but found none of the expected demolitions at its gates . |
| 2 | I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny , and the illustrations were a bit tasteless . |
| 3 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 4 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 5 | Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown . |
| 6 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 7 | According to the Legend — the propaganda of a papacy that by this time was endeavouring to assert its independence of the emperor — on the eighth day after his conversion , the Emperor Constantine divested himself of the imperial symbols , prostrated himself before Pope Sylvester and laid down his crown . |
| 8 | Earlier in the debate , the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) told us of the Liberal Democrats ' proposals for a local income tax . |
| 9 | As your daughter met none of the published criteria the panel , in balancing the stipulation of the above-stated section of the Act against your parental preferences felt unable to uphold your appeal . |
| 10 | As your daughter met none of the published criteria the panel felt unable to override the stipulation of the Act . |
| 11 | Prior to laying the information Mrs Bujok had not served an abatement notice upon the council or informed them of the alleged defects in the premises . |
| 12 | It appeared to be feeding normally and showed none of the obvious signs of illness . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that Dement performed experiments after this one in which his subjects showed none of the psychiatric symptoms with REM sleep deprivation , and that he himself made clear how his early observations were probably misleading about the effects of REM sleep deprivation , the idea that dreaming preserved sanity had been strongly reinforced . |
| 14 | After thirty years of British rule , observed the distinguished scholar-administrator Henry Fosbrooke , they displayed none of the distressing symptoms of that ‘ soul erosion ’ , defined by him as a ‘ deterioration in obedience to existing moral standards , a falling off in observance of organized religion , a lack of purpose in life ’ , which seemed so often to be the result of British efforts to bring civilization to the African . |
| 15 | ‘ And yet to have been there and heard none of the holy words which we should naturally have listened for from those lips at such a time — how distressing ! ’ |
| 16 | Loyalist protesters have shouted ‘ SS-RUC ’ and ‘ Dublin 's lap dogs ’ , whilst some elected MPs have exhorted RUC men to resign or mutiny and warned them of the possible consequences of their ‘ disloyalty ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 17 | The boy repeated none of the simple errors he had made first time round . |
| 18 | He knew nothing of the other facts and , as he continued relentlessly , Jenna was pleased she had not told him . |
| 19 | But he knew nothing of the practical techniques of modelling and carving . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | In Green 's Tourist 's New Guide 1819 , p.4. he says ‘ The writer was encouraged to the pursuit of painting by Mr. West , but why he knows not , his few sketches were humble , his mind untutored , and he knew none of the requisite theories , but geometry , perspective and architecture ’ . |
| 22 | In my A stream class at " the convent " I knew none of the other girls and rarely saw my former classmates . |
| 23 | Mr Litmus was quite certain he had n't and knew none of the other teachers had either . |
| 24 | He attended none of the leading schools , nor did he go to university . |
| 25 | The organization claimed membership from all parts of the South , and its membership contained education specialists , lawyers , people from the media , and civil servants , at least one of whom knew something of the existing channels of power and communication between church and state in the national school system . |
| 26 | He reminded me of the tight-lipped heroes in war films — the name and number ploy ; more you will not get even if you carve strips off me . |
| 27 | As we drank our wine , Pumblechook reminded me of the happy times he and I had spent together during my childhood . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As a subject people regarded as inferior to Japanese , Koreans possessed none of the democratic rights enjoyed by Japanese . |
| 30 | During this interlude , Charlotte reminded herself of the different bluffs and deceptions each was practising . |