Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah yes , ’ Leon turned to Mrs Yaxlee , ‘ your George has told me of the great days . |
| 2 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 3 | Manuel had quietly melted away , perhaps to leave the stage clear for Andy , perhaps to grieve alone at the cruel injustice that had robbed him of the top prize . |
| 4 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 5 | The extraordinary stop-start conversation between Victor and his monster had convinced me of the latter 's supreme dangerousness : given its malevolence , its lying and eloquent tongue was probably as big a threat as its turn of speed . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've relieved him of the financial burden , but we both share the interest of the place . ’ |
| 7 | This was a sort of celebration meal , as word had reached us of the successful British attack on Caen . |
| 8 | On Aug. 11 the Supreme Soviet in emergency session had deprived him of the additional powers granted on April 30 [ see p. 38916 ] , and , in a resolution passed on Aug. 14 on extricating the country from crisis , censured him for " indecisive and at times incompetent policy " and demanded that he and the government take all measures to implement the July peace agreement [ for which see p. 39010 ] . |
| 9 | She hardly dared to draw the curtains to show herself to the other girls , though she had warned them of the horrid sight in store for them . |
| 10 | In founding Lampsacus they killed off all the natives , but they did it in self-defence ; the daughter of the local king had warned them of the impending attack . |