Example sentences of "had [verb] of the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the rich did not escape the scourge is evident at Crich in Derbyshire when , in October 1349 , William de Wakebridge added a small chantry chapel to the parish church in memory of his wife , his father , his two sisters and three brothers , all of whom had died of the plague in the summer of that year . |
| 2 | But , by that same morning , Ben Braithwaite had started to believe that he had thought of the cut in wages all by himself . |
| 3 | Anne had learned of the change in the royal fortunes from her mother . |
| 4 | Karamani Mehmed Pasa ( Grand Vezir 882–6/1477–81 ) , pupil of another scholar vanquished by Hocazade and therefore ill-disposed toward him , told Mehmed II that Hocazade had complained of the climate in Istanbul , saying that because of it he had forgotten the learned works he had memorized , and that he had praised the climate in Iznik . |
| 5 | Each purchaser was given a document stating him to be the owner of the quantity he had purchased of the wine in question . |
| 6 | Although the duty officer I spoke to had read of the case in the local Spanish press , he knew no details . |
| 7 | Susan had read of the ceremony in the factual brief for the President ( Michael 's brief , but she did not allow herself to think of Michael ) . |