Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] of " in BNC.
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1 | On May 11 she was at Camp IV ( 7,900m ) on the north side of the mountain with her companion Carlos Carsolio , where she complained of sickness and did not eat well . |
2 | She went to hospital where she complained of pain in her right shoulder and in the right side of her chest . |
3 | And every human being has the right to fail ; it is what he or she makes of that failure which counts . |
4 | That , she knew full well , she could do nothing about , although she disapproved of the whole set-up . |
5 | These purchases were made despite what Hall describes as her ‘ antipathy for the firm ’ , aggravated by the fact that a Guardi which Berenson had offered to her was sold to another client , and that she learnt of a discrepancy between the price she paid for two Holbeins and the monies paid to the owners , the Pole-Carews . |
6 | I am greatly touched that she thinks of me and remembers me even in the state of forgetfulness of human affairs in which she now finds herself . |
7 | Used to let them at me mum leave er my kids that she made of hers , yet she , me mum never treated them all the same |
8 | It was better that she thought of neither . |
9 | The setting was so romantically idyllic , with the distant jangle of yacht masts , soft calypso music , the rustle of breeze in the palms , that she thought of Mortimer again with a sick wave of anger . |
10 | She told one foreign reporter that she knew of the rumours and laughed them off , saying , ‘ If my relationship with the General Staff makes me a secret agent , maybe I am ! ’ |
11 | There was not a hamlet or a house that she knew of between here and Coton . |
12 | Referring to her disgraced son-in-law as ‘ Mr Mellor ’ , she added that she knew of his decision to resign ‘ some time ago ’ . |
13 | It could n't be that I was right , and while I yearned to return to a certainty I already knew , I heard only my mother 's voice , insisting , on one dead note , that she knew of what life should consist . |
14 | Lachy had been back one time afterwards that she knew of , a year later , and he had called , but she 'd told him she would n't be able to see him , and put the phone down on him . |
15 | So far , all that she knew of Josie was that she owned a big handbag . |
16 | On the other hand , she reflected , it would fit well with all that she knew of Miss Coldharbour 's habits if she had fed Wheeler with information about Gray which he 'd used to bully Gray with . |
17 | She made no attempt to prevent him from taking her into his arms , gave no sign that she knew of his presence . |
18 | However , after watching it on stage , it was obvious from her facial expression that she knew of Bassanio and was very fond of him . |
19 | You could say that she died of … moral shock . |
20 | What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum . |
21 | She had a respiratory infection and one reason for life termination was ‘ the threat of asphyxia ’ — so she was given high-dose opioids , which ensured that she died of asphyxia . |
22 | ‘ You were probably told that she died of a heart attack — but she did n't . |
23 | She had begged Aurangzeb not to spare Dara , and now that she heard of his end she threw a great party in the Imperial harem . |
24 | By the time Judith was seven , it was quite obvious to Bertha Cohen that if she was to have any hope of achieving the enlargement of her life that she dreamed of she would just have to try again . |
25 | And Jake , at twenty-four , dark and dashing and handsome , had appeared to embody all the romance that she dreamed of . |
26 | 381 , 384 ‘ There is no doubt that at common law if a wife chooses wilfully and without justification to live away from her husband she can not , so long as she continues absent , render him liable for the necessaries supplied to her , or for her maintenance by the union , for the reason that she has of her own free will deprived herself of the opportunity which the husband was affording her of being maintained in the home . |
27 | The court has been told that that order has not been formally served upon the mother , but there is no question but that she knows of its existence and its terms . |
28 | I was sure that she consisted of two personalities , one innocuous and human , the other uncanny . |
29 | Not that she approved of his plans . |
30 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |