Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I 'd heard of AIDS and the destruction of that immunity , but somehow that was happening to homosexuals in LA or Brighton and not here with me , deep in the pastoral Hampshire countryside . |
| 2 | His nostrils were cavernous and so finely edged that they seemed made of paper . |
| 3 | A post mortem investigation revealed he 'd died of carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 4 | and a luminous dream I 'd had of origin : |
| 5 | She 'd lost of course all modesty , if she ever had any , but she must have been reared like a pig … her language was indescribably common and coarse , and whether eating , drinking , speaking , washing or even pissing , her vulgarity and idiocy were intolerable . |
| 6 | WE can get rid of Trident missiles just as we got rid of cruise missiles . |
| 7 | When I got rid of fear I found we could make friends . |
| 8 | I said she looked made of money , did n't I ? ’ |
| 9 | Are managers of nurses kept informed of deployment variations affecting other groups of staff ? |
| 10 | Power dressing , noted Joshua cheerfully , who had heard of Amaranth but had not been introduced . |
| 11 | The two American researchers say that , despite some of the workers having 20 years ' experience in the electricity industry , none of the workers had heard of sulphur hexafluoride , nor did they know that their work could lead to exposure to irritant gases . |
| 12 | ‘ I had heard of Genesis but I had never heard them . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think the Victorians had heard of peanut butter . |
| 14 | No one had heard of access to ink print information in those days and as I was the only blind student there I did n't feel I had any support to ask for it to be made available . |
| 15 | When I started out , nobody had heard of health economics ; now every provider unit in the health service wants one . |
| 16 | ‘ Nobody south of Perth had heard of malt whisky in those days , ’ he said , ‘ so I took a bottle and six glasses into my final crit . |
| 17 | They found that while nearly everyone had heard of gonorrhoea and AIDS , only a few had heard of the far more common chlamydial and trichomoniasis infections . |
| 18 | His coffee had stunk of whisky . |
| 19 | Two explorers passing through the Chilean desert in 1974 discovered the banana could help keep them on the move when they became stranded because their car had drained of oil . |
| 20 | It was what they had expected of University , but had not hoped so soon to find . |
| 21 | In the century which Canadians believed belonged to them , poetry had come of age . |
| 22 | Kylie had come of age and become a sensuous woman , just like Monroe , whom she had always loved being likened to . |
| 23 | His parents , who were fair and liberal-minded people , were nonetheless confused and upset , and while giving Rajiv freedom to follow his convictions , they forbade him to be baptised until he had come of age . |
| 24 | This was Henry Stafford , duke of Buckingham , who had come of age in 1473 but had been refused any political role by Edward IV . |
| 25 | We had only known Sinar Surya as a lumpish extension of the land — as dependent on it as a baby is on its mother ; now she had come of age as she surged south to a thrilling new rhythm , new smells and new sensations . |
| 26 | Britain 's adopted children had come of age . |
| 27 | This was Henry Stafford , duke of Buckingham , who had come of age in 1473 but had been refused any political role by Edward IV . |
| 28 | Dr Michael Longfield , director of Teesside Polytechnic for 11 years , said the institution had come of age . |
| 29 | His lovely , timeless Rose had come of age . |
| 30 | Perhaps this was because Galileo had claimed of heat that its ‘ generally accepted notion comes very far from the truth … inasmuch as it is supposed to be a true accident , affection , and quality really residing in the thing which we perceive to be heated . ’ |