Example sentences of "[verb] of [verb] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly , only an MEP who spends his life flying around the Community at the taxpayer 's expense , would think of conducting such a fatuous experiment . |
| 2 | All must be equally under suspicion , though we all know the master or mistress would never think of doing such a thing . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps you can tell me why you imagine I would even think of doing such a thing ? ’ |
| 4 | The two brothers were very close and no writer I can think of has such a hatred of death as Canetti . |
| 5 | If that fell down Hearn might think of staging such a fight in France . |
| 6 | They had wide powers to arrest persons suspected of committing such crimes as theft , burglary , and serious assault . |
| 7 | And we would n't even have thought of asking such a question . |
| 8 | People think women who do not want to marry unfeminine , people think women who do want to marry immodest — people combine both opinions by regarding it as unfeminine for women not to look forward longingly to wifehood as the hope and purpose of their lives , and ridiculing and condemning any individual woman of their acquaintance whom they suspect of entertaining such a longing . |
| 9 | One of the earliest men we know of to have such a dream was the Old Testament prophet , Micah . |
| 10 | I heard of the miracles of Saint Winifred , and the many pilgrims and rich gifts she has brought to Shrewsbury , and I dreamed of finding such a patroness to give new life to Ramsey . |
| 11 | He would n't dream of adopting such a persona in his own business world , and I knew it . |
| 12 | I would n't dream of making such an observation . |
| 13 | ( Dana would never dream of doing such a thing — he would just take off into the void and somehow find his way around . ) |
| 14 | I would n't dream of doing such a thing . ’ |
| 15 | And when the congratulations and kisses had died down , she went on , ‘ Señorita Shelley , without you I could not dream of finding such a wonderful mistress . |
| 16 | The great attraction of Leavis 's discourse , then , is to be found in the possibility it seemed to offer of enacting such a " reconciliation " by means of an education which was both culturally synoptic and evaluative . |
| 17 | But one must beware of accepting such statements at their face value as evidence of deep personal belief , for such phrases are taken from books which advised people how to compose documents , and Dr Margaret Spufford has shown how rural wills in Cambridgeshire were drawn up by only a small number of scribes . |
| 18 | But Soviet leaders had not yet conceived of extending such formally guaranteed zones , as opposed to the looser idea of ‘ zones of peace ’ , to Third World regions . |
| 19 | It 's what comes of making such a mystery of it . |