Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair had been flattened by the storm so that it made Trent think of a squashed astrakan hat . |
| 2 | It made Patrick cringe of course , but the inevitable comparison with his brother was high on the agenda when , clutching his share of the £45,000 winners ' cheque and £15,000 for finishing eighth in the Nabisco points table , he walked into the interview room . |
| 3 | In his white face , there was nothing but a stillness deeper than the farthest depths of the sea — a quietness that made Ruth think of a drowned body drifting on its slow journey down to the sea bed . |
| 4 | For some reason it made Maggie think of silent music , each flicker a celestial note . |
| 5 | His loneliness had recently been underlined by the fact that Ramsay MacLure , having been kicked out by the painter and critic Robin Ironside , had moved in with Vaughan , forming with him a steady relationship that caused Minton to talk of finding his own house . |
| 6 | He visited the home of Simon Peter , was supported by well-to-do people and never encouraged Zacchaeus to dispose of the whole of his wealth at the time when he returned money to those he had cheated . |
| 7 | That made Defries think of Johannsen . |
| 8 | As she walked Maggie thought of her father whose body had been one of the last recovered . |
| 9 | While there are less accomplished versions of the more elaborate examples in a given region , as in Kent , the virtuosity of the buckle , shoulder clasps and purse from mound 1 at Sutton Hoo inevitably led Speake to talk of a Sutton Hoo master craftsman and a workshop ; later pieces may have been produced by workers trained there . |
| 10 | The other man 's sinewy thinness , his smooth torso and the dull tone of his flesh , made Carey think of something bloodless and odourless ; something skinned . |
| 11 | It horrified Brian to think of Celia hypnotised by some guru who would try to drag things out of her which might not even have been correct . |
| 12 | As Saturday passed Boswell talked of leaving Dunvegan on the Monday ; Johnson said he would not budge until the Wednesday . |
| 13 | the lyrics of Johnny Cash 's A Boy Named Sue tell of adversity , by way of an unusual Christian name , thrust upon a youngster . |
| 14 | Sinclair also urged Chamberlain to beware of a pact with Russia , insisting that the Red Army ‘ could do nothing of real value ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Did Lucy think of herself as that heterosexually convenient phenomenon , the ‘ non-orgasmic woman ’ ; had sex been awful for her ? |
| 17 | ‘ Did Ken think of Apricot as a name , or you ? ’ |
| 18 | Speaking on his return to Seoul on Oct. 25 , Chung Won Shik spoke of a " small breakthrough " and " a sort of success " , but officials stressed that there would be " acute " problems in achieving a final agreement . |
| 19 | The real key question of course was what did Jack think of it all . |
| 20 | Using the quadruple vector , double shelled VLPs consisting of four proteins were synthesized . |
| 21 | Nor did Godolphin tire of being an Englishman in that most unEnglish of cities . |
| 22 | Delightful scene ; it made Elizabeth think of Turgenev . |
| 23 | For he is the AESTHETE , as I had Yeats speak of him . |
| 24 | But what had Victor made of it ? |
| 25 | I had Wendy to think of , too . ’ |
| 26 | Having experienced none of these things , what right had Louisa to judge of this ? |