Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made me think of the Palace Hotel . |
| 2 | She was , however , immensely enthusiastic and encouraging , trying to make me think of the enterprise as a holiday as well as a mission with a sad and serious purpose . |
| 3 | This time of the building of the gardens of our minds makes me think of the Pacific Ocean where insects spin the sunlight and the salt water , and weave them into the most beautiful oases of the sea . |
| 4 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 5 | Too much space and too much light in this courtyard : it made me think of the difference between his face and mine . |
| 6 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 7 | Er with reference to the great pestilence er makes me think of the original great pestilence , the Black Death and of course er contaminated individuals be put in a pest house far away from places of habitation but they can contaminate others which one ca n't help thinking that it would be quite a good policy has commissioned . |
| 8 | I thought , this is the last time I taste of the benisons of nature . |
| 9 | German young people recently have shown a more revolutionary and radical sort of behaviour than one would have dreamt possible in the old Germany , but in this morning 's paper I read of the results of erm a public opinion poll recently conducted by the German government about neo-nazism in Germany , showing what seems to be a rather alarming quantity of surviving interest in sympathy for old nazism . |
| 10 | As regards finding more ‘ absolute ’ tempo area indications for automatic mechanical instruments : there are mechanical noises on the recordings I made of the 1793 and undated Niemecz mechanical organs associated with the turning of these instruments ' flywheels . |
| 11 | When two or three such persons were gathered together at our servants ' hall — I mean of the calibre of , say , Mr Graham , with whom now , sadly , I seem to have lost touch — we would have some of the most stimulating and intelligent debates on every aspect of our vocation . |
| 12 | What did I think of the prospect of an up-and-coming Minister of State called Norman Tebbit taking over the job ? |
| 13 | And she said to me what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back . |
| 14 | Well , she tells me that she is going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring , er , Don put her , Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job , he wo n't get a job , he wo n't work , and she said to Lee what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back , once they were properly divorced take Pete back just as a lover and I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea , I said then your not at his mercy because anybody who 's at Pete 's mercy will suffer , his got a very nasty streak , his got a nasty snide way of putting things . |
| 15 | ‘ I remain of the conviction that the ordination of women to the priesthood ought to be construed as an enlargement and extension of the historic Christian ministry , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I remain of the conviction that the ordination of women to the priesthood ought to be construed as an enlargement and extension of the historic Christian ministry . |
| 17 | I remain of the view , moreover , that since the quotas were introduced in order to safeguard the interests of local populations dependent on fishing , it is legitimate to require the majority ( and even 75 per cent. ) of crew members of vessels fishing for species subject to quotas to be ordinarily resident on the coast of the country in question . |
| 18 | If it is not permissible to take into account what was said by the Financial Secretary , I remain of the same view . |
| 19 | The er the county council came forward with these policies as a result of comments that er districts made a number of years ago and perhaps er over a passage of time erm makes at least validity your point but I I remain of the the view that there is in the there is nothing in the county structure plan that sets out the basic objective of protecting the countryside and still feel that 's a valid objective within the structure plan erm within the structure plan er context . |
| 20 | I am well known here for the checkings I make of the movement of ships . ’ |
| 21 | so we could have reduced that , and I think that is the criticism that I make of the Conservatives , not that the Conservatives in this council have done that , but that they should be apologizing for it . |
| 22 | Another says I smell of the sea , like oysters , fresh and salty . ’ |
| 23 | I am just a poor girl ; what do I know of the sea-king 's palace ? |
| 24 | I was engaged in enquiry into the matter when I learnt of the attack upon her sister . |
| 25 | I learnt of the love between mother and father and child . |
| 26 | What I learnt of the Al Fayeds settled one question but raised another . |
| 27 | ( When I speak of the value of the whole , I mean what Moore calls its value on the whole , that is the values of its parts plus its value as a whole . ) |
| 28 | ‘ I speak not only of the Army — although as Colonel Moore knows probably better than I , the acts of heroism you see there in the face of pain — wounds , cuts , torn limbs ’ — he looked at Mrs Crump ; she swayed slightly — ‘ severed arteries , gashed heads ’ — Mrs Moore was unaffected — ‘ and all the terrible lacerations and disfigurements received on the human body in modern warfare ’ — Miss D'Arcy nodded ; she was intrigued — ‘ but I speak of the self-inflicted torments of the Indian , the Negro and the Mussulman . ’ |
| 29 | For when I speak of the community being faithful to its own principles I do not mean its conventional or popular morality , the beliefs and convictions of most citizens . |
| 30 | This is in line with the obvious policy , not just of the ruling group , but I suspect of the council as a whole that we know that sooner or later courtesy of this government , whether we like it or not we are going to have to get down to our standard spending assessment . |