Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And what do you suppose Mr Pig and skinny Miss Ginger made of our happy family ? ’ |
| 2 | Eadberht abdicated of his own accord in 758 , handing the kingdom over to his son , Oswulf , and becoming a cleric at York ( where he died in 768 ) , but Oswulf was killed within the year by his own household in 759 near the unidentified settlement of Methel Wongtun and replaced by Aethelwald Moll , who is likely to have been associated with those who were responsible for Oswulf 's murder ; nor did Eadberht 's descendants recover royal power for twenty years . |
| 3 | What did Nick Morley know of her troubles ? |
| 4 | Thus Galadriel says of her life , ‘ Through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat ’ . |
| 5 | As Galadriel says of her Mirror ( I , 378 ) : it ‘ shows many things , and not all have yet come to pass . |
| 6 | Father Sophrony says of his ministry as spiritual director , ‘ the way is to pray every day with a flaming heart ‘ Do not permit me to be wrong in my work for this service transcends my capacity . ’ |
| 7 | I saw that Mrs Fairfax approved of my correct behaviour , and I knew that he respected me for it . |
| 8 | Richard approved of my having an ‘ interest ’ now it did not dominate my life and make his uncomfortable , and the fact that his political opinions were different from mine , made him feel tolerant and wise . |
| 9 | In fact the United States boasted of its capacity for ‘ overkill ’ — another euphemism in the nuclear vocabulary — as if to wipe out one 's adversary several times over could only make the world a safer place . |
| 10 | In this session Ann talked of her deprived early life and her first marriage , which ended when her husband walked out . |
| 11 | STAR WOODY TELLS OF HIS AFFAIR WITH MIA 'S DAUGHTER |
| 12 | Lord Ribblesdale thought of his grandparents ' house as ‘ my second home . ’ |
| 13 | President Mitterrand spoke of his ‘ respect ’ for her arguments , Chancellor Kohl said she had ‘ not refused her co-operation ’ , and Mr Haughey said she had ‘ participated fully ’ . |
| 14 | Next day Wilfrid spoke of his disquiet to an old friend , Dick Thompson , the Registrar of Criminal Appeals , and he , having read the book , felt a similar concern . |
| 15 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 16 | Lucy spoke of her life , Jay wanted to hold her and hug the hurt away . |
| 17 | Sir Adrian Boult wrote of his ‘ nervous , electric beat ’ which he used in faster music to great effect in creating tension and variations to pulse . |
| 18 | The first indication that Richard Branson had of his young protégé 's dramatic metamorphosis came with a telephone call . |
| 19 | ‘ I just thought it was a shame to go inside on such a night as this , ’ he continued , ‘ so I persuaded Will to partake of my company for a while . ’ |
| 20 | Yesterday exactly a week after he suffered serious leg and arm injuries on a country road at Stillington Jason told of his nightmare which started when he was accused of seeing Pringle 's ex-girlfriend , Leanne Rees . |
| 21 | After the hearing Elizabeth Lamplugh told of her own ordeal . |
| 22 | John 's wife Sheila told of her shock when she woke to find a gun trained on them at their home in Bromley , Kent . |
| 23 | And Casaubon says of his left-wing , bar-propping days in the early Seventies , ‘ I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to 12-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ A lot in it remains undiscovered , ’ Ian McDiarmid says of his current lead role in Volpone , the 1606 satire that is Ben Jonson 's most frequently performed play . |
| 25 | ‘ Winning only one Bledisloe Cup in my eight years and , of course , South Africa were factors ’ , Farr-Jones says of his decision to add the 53rd cap he won at Twickenham . |
| 26 | As her friend James Gilbey observes of her suicide attempts : ‘ They were messages of complete desperation . |
| 27 | As she walked Maggie thought of her father whose body had been one of the last recovered . |
| 28 | Neither Salinger nor Ross knew of my role in Cyprus as a DIA agent , and I certainly did n't tell them . |
| 29 | As the Wallabies , fresh from beating Scotland , strike a deal with sports marketing agency IMG , skipper Nick Farr-Jones speaks of his desire to speed up what he sees as the game 's inevitable move to semi-pro status . |
| 30 | The bomb went off when Carol learned of her trip being cancelled . |