Example sentences of "[verb] of [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did she know of him after all ? |
| 2 | He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine . |
| 3 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 4 | Before Lord George obtained this command , however , his inability to render the services expected of him by some of the family 's political friends was a liability , and was seen as such by Montrose , who wrote with some anxiety to deny allegations that the son of another gentleman of the region was serving in Lord George 's ship , but was on board the flagship of the admiral . |
| 5 | If the ‘ qualified driver ’ does not do what can be reasonably expected of him regarding these duties the learner could be said to be not under supervision . |
| 6 | Bad behaviour was expected of you in those times . |
| 7 | But the dreariness , the frightful struggle of life , the indifference of people , the troublesomeness of children — he did not want to be reminded of them at that moment . |
| 8 | Kardamíli seemed a good base , since the author himself writes of it with such affection . |
| 9 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 10 | How we buy food also has an influence on how much we eat of it at any one meal . |
| 11 | Robyn herself would disapprove of it on ideological grounds , and it might be interpreted by other students as creeping . |
| 12 | The use of the split infinitive is now generally acceptable , though some more traditional grammarians would probably still disapprove of it as incorrect English . |
| 13 | To sum up , in positing an item as an ontological existent we are at the same time by implication positing this item as a potential subject of a non-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates , and hence as completely determinate with regard to possible descriptions that may be given of it at any given time . |
| 14 | Everybody 's completely different and there 's such a tendency not to study people really and to simply think of them as all exactly the same , ‘ You 're 75 and you 're old and you 've got to put up with that . |
| 15 | It allows the physical pieces of paper passed around an office to be replaced by electronic images — you can think of them as electronic photographs of the paper pages . |
| 16 | Now unless we think that dreams can unravel very fast in the mind , much faster , and there is some evidence that that 's true actually , that dreams can in fact happen quicker than you could think of them in conscious time . |
| 17 | No one could ever take that away from her , and she would always think of him with special affection . |
| 18 | It is he — another person , she told herself , I must think of him as another person . |
| 19 | Did n't you think of Him at all ? ’ |
| 20 | Hoomey could n't think of him at four pounds . |
| 21 | The moment she thought of Peter , then Martin ( no , she would not think of him in that ridiculous way with a small m ) no longer looked so good , so handsome . |
| 22 | You must always think of him in those terms , to get the flavour of Calvinistic humbug that ruled his life , and therefore everyone around him . ’ |
| 23 | I mean I guess I 've got as many inner tensions as most of us , but I do n't think of it in that way . |
| 24 | ‘ You must not think of it like that , dear , ’ Stevie told her gently . |
| 25 | ‘ In truth , ’ Suragai said , ‘ I did not think of you at all . |
| 26 | ‘ Now I simply do n't think of you at all . ’ |
| 27 | — or does not think of you at all . |
| 28 | She says she thinks of him as one of her own children . |
| 29 | " He thinks of me as such . " |
| 30 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |