Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvey suddenly thought of something else . |
| 2 | Baden-Powell warmly approved of Casson 's ideas , and he quoted large chunks of them in his writings . |
| 3 | Newton only learnt of the charge on Monday , two days before the county appeared in front of the TCCB . |
| 4 | Spenser obviously approved of Grey 's measures . |
| 5 | When the issue of international monetary reform had been seriously debated in 1972 the United States started from the position that ‘ the system should neither bar nor encourage official holdings of foreign exchange ’ , suggesting that ‘ the United States still thought of the SDR as providing a substitute for gold rather than for the dollar ’ ( Williamson , 1977 , p. 176 ) . |
| 6 | Cecil Beaton once declared of her : |
| 7 | Sainte-Beuve tells us that David always spoke of Diderot with gratitude . |
| 8 | St Teresa of Avila also spoke of the obscure type of revelation , which both Julian and Muhammad described as ‘ spiritual visions ’ : |
| 9 | Much woodland in the High Weald again consists of coppice , in this instance sweet chestnut ( Castanea sativa ) on the sandier soils , and hornbeam ( Carpinus betula ) on the heavier soils , often grown in pure stands . |
| 10 | East Germany 's future , as Mr Gorbachev never tires of reminding us , can be settled only by East Germany itself . |
| 11 | Ken never thought of girls . |
| 12 | The Mercians may always have been ruled by more than one king , possibly several , before the mid-seventh century , and Bede certainly thought of Penda as king at the time of his attack on the eastern Angles in the late 630s ( HE 111 , 18 ) . |
| 13 | No Act of Parliament ever repealed the privilege of sanctuary within the girth of Holyrood Abbey , but defaulting Abbey Lairds no longer occupied the area where Thomas de Quincey knew he was safe from his creditors and Walter Scott seriously thought of doing the same thing . |
| 14 | Britain 's conventional forces in Germany thus remained of prime importance . |
| 15 | Anthony sometimes dared to do the things that Nigel only thought of . |
| 16 | It is most unlikely that Wordsworth ever thought of his philosophical ideas as a ‘ Creed ’ ; later he said that we are not supposed to take literally his reference to himself in Tintern Abbey as ‘ a worshipper of Nature ’ . |
| 17 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 18 | Has n't Mr Brittlebrain ever heard of the subjunctive ? |
| 19 | For many cultures , the ‘ right ’ linguistic formulae have a sort of supernatural power : thus Sapir once spoke of ‘ that virtual identity of word and thing which leads to the magic of spells ’ . |
| 20 | Hodads from Honolulu still think of the place as the Wild West and venture up the H-2 to stare at surfers as if they were herds of buffalo grazing on the sea . |
| 21 | It 's hard to imagine a vast country like Brazil totally stripped of forest but it could happen unless we re-double our efforts now . |
| 22 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
| 23 | Maggie immediately thought of Bryce returning to the flooded corridor to save here . |
| 24 | But rural England today consists of much more than agriculture and English rural society is no longer entirely , nor even predominantly , an agrarian society . |
| 25 | Kissinger in particular believed that there must be a ‘ linkage ’ between Western concessions to Russia and Soviet good behaviour in the Third World , but Brandt did not keep Washington fully informed of developments in Ostpolitik . |
| 26 | Eva never speaks of being afraid as the various political situations blew up even though at times it must have been rather like walking a tightrope after UDI . |
| 27 | Ruth never thought of trying to stop him — not because she was afraid , but because he seemed unreachable now : beyond control or reason . |
| 28 | The collection of the Archäologisches Landesmuseum currently consists of exhibits from the Stone Age to pieces from the Ludwigsburg porcelain factory . |
| 29 | Jeremiah and Isaiah never tire of reminding the people that there is one God who can save his people , and that all other refuges are in vain . |
| 30 | It was the first image William ever had of rats , and an enduring one . |