Example sentences of "[vb past] he of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Thomas Beddoes , a Bristol physician at Hotwells , told him of an opportunity to write for the Morning Chronicle in London , and Coleridge , with a heavy heart , almost accepted the editor 's ‘ very handsome offer ’ . |
| 2 | Mark then told him of the occasion when he had been driving down O'Connell Street some twenty or so years before , when he had inadvertently misunderstood the hand signals of the policeman on traffic duty , and had moved off before he had been cleared to do so . |
| 3 | Unable to hold his excitement , Clark telephoned Professor Frank Cox of King 's College London and told him of the results . |
| 4 | Unprompted , a farm labourer told him of the tradition of an old track precisely on the line where he had surmised the ley to be . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news . |
| 6 | ‘ Who knows about this ? ’ he asked when Kelly haltingly told him of the latest threat to her . |
| 7 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 8 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 9 | I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’ |
| 10 | When Vivien appeared on the set badly made-up , with her wig perched ridiculously high on her head and refusing to alter a single thing , Asher reluctantly called Olivier and told him of the problems . |
| 11 | Dr Tariq told him of the death of Professor Khan , of the defection of the two French engineers , and of the Italian laboratory engineers , of a letter bomb that had been received , correctly addressed , to the same complex , to the very building alongside the one in which he now sat . |
| 12 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 13 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |
| 14 | By the time Adam and Billie were drinking their coffees , the contact had interrupted Kragan at a training meeting and told him of the two foreigners in the Bellevue Hotel who were enquiring about the Dresden Heide . |
| 15 | He told him of the goal that has held him through three years in the University of the North — a campus from which student riots have spread through the country . |
| 16 | The African told him of the anger in the hearts of his generation . |
| 17 | I told him of the change in men like Alec Smith , Elliott Gabellah and Arthur Kanodereka . |
| 18 | Athelstan told him of the visits to the death house and the gibbet . |
| 19 | What would he say if she told him of the background that had left her with a deep and enduring mistrust of men ? |
| 20 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 21 | They advised him of a way round the ‘ export licensing of strategic goods ’ — by describing the goods as harmless . |
| 22 | I was quite surprised at his reaction when I informed him of the death of ‘ Egg and chips twice ’ . |
| 23 | King Edward must have guessed this , or possibly some English sympathiser had slipped out of the town by night in a small boat undetected , which was quite possible , and informed him of the situation . |
| 24 | He looked down at Thornton and informed him of the new management attitude . |
| 25 | I pulled out precariously alongside of him , signalled wildly and , when he pulled down his window , informed him of the danger . |
| 26 | Lewis became champion when unified title-holder Riddick Bowe unceremoniously dumped his WBC belt in a bin , and the angry Mexico City-based organisation stripped him of the title . |
| 27 | The West Ham manager , Billy Bonds , who has already fined Dicks and stripped him of the club captaincy , admitted yesterday : ‘ It is obvious we have had a disciplinary problem this season and it is something we are going to have to try to put straight . |
| 28 | The heavy labour not only fought the flab around his waist but cured him of the insomnia he had suffered from for so many years . |
| 29 | In 1935 Louis Aragon proudly proclaimed to the world that his encounter with communism and the revolutionary society of the Soviet Union had transformed him into an entirely new man , had rejuvenated him , re-educated him , and in the process cured him of the social disease of his bourgeois class origins . |
| 30 | A few years later Clement V , formerly archbishop of Bordeaux , granted Edward further papal tenths , and thus relieved him of the need to tax the clergy directly or even to seek subsidies from his difficult lay subjects . |