Example sentences of "[verb] of [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | How we buy food also has an influence on how much we eat of it at any one meal . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Did n't you think of Him at all ? ’ |
| 5 | Hoomey could n't think of him at four pounds . |
| 6 | ‘ In truth , ’ Suragai said , ‘ I did not think of you at all . |
| 7 | ‘ Now I simply do n't think of you at all . ’ |
| 8 | — or does not think of you at all . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 11 | When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all . |
| 12 | They have erm what 's called the players ' theatre , I do n't know whether you 've heard of it at all erm they belong , they 're members of it . |
| 13 | I had n't heard of it at all , do n't know what |
| 14 | Anna would n't speak of it at all for some time ; later we heard about Simon 's will — he left her various things , his art library for instance ( it 's a wonderful one ) — and it gave her some kind of peace . |
| 15 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 16 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If you 've thought of me at all since we last met I 'd be very surprised . ’ |
| 18 | He felt sure he 'd have been told of it at literary do 's if she was really ill . |
| 19 | So got rid of him at last , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and went in to the glass . |
| 20 | He would be rid of him at last . |
| 21 | Then an attempt was made to get rid of it at 800 deg C in the west midlands but the incinerator needed to be at 1,200 deg C. The result was that the dioxins from Bolsover in the east midlands were transmitted all over the west midlands . |
| 22 | And she had wondered how it was she was speaking of him at all . |
| 23 | It was a relief when others came , others who took no notice of her but , if they thought of her at all , must think her as seasoned a traveller as they . |
| 24 | Hank , when Mrs Stych thought of him at all , always gave her a headache . |
| 25 | What he thought of Canon Wheeler , if he thought of him at all , he had never , in his gentlemanly fashion , revealed to anyone . |
| 26 | African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives . |
| 27 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
| 28 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
| 29 | To this day , Hardy , himself having achieved the double of classical and popular success as an actor , speaks of him at that time with unaffected adulation . |
| 30 | In the past , he had only ever spoken well of his mother , when he spoke of her at all . |