Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I can show Donna and see what she thinks of the list ? |
| 2 | But I could n't agree more with Philippa Davenport when she writes of the formality that seems to have overtaken marriage celebrations , particularly in England ( page 47 ) . |
| 3 | She writes of the hero : |
| 4 | In Gwendolen she writes of the way a black woman like Sonia , Gwendolen 's mother , is treated , either with polite indifference or as if she is not there . |
| 5 | Mary Warnock provides a scathing analysis of the government 's attitude to higher education when she writes of the contempt that the government has for universities and their staff : |
| 6 | She says of the building societies : ‘ How dare they ignore the real needs of loyal customers by pursuing a marketing ploy which only benefits a few . |
| 7 | It 's grown into a different shape over the years , ’ she says of the abundance of jugs , pebbles , paintings ( almost all done by members of the family ) , china , and even animal skulls , which jostle each other to form displays everywhere you look . |
| 8 | ‘ It would be nice to have it published , but even so , I have got a great sense of satisfaction from finding out things for myself , ’ she says of the volume , which includes 230 illustrations . |
| 9 | When she complains of the drudgery of studying sound changes , Bernard hints that she does not really have what it takes to be a scholar . |
| 10 | Indeed , she comments of the story of Jacob at Jabbok , that the ‘ man ’ with whom he wrestles is deity ; and , of Jacob , on his ‘ refusing to let the man go unless he blesses him ’ . |
| 11 | Lady Macbeth provides Macbeth with the determination he requires when she hears of the witches prophesy and her husband 's title of ‘ Thane of Cawdor ’ , she immediately begins planning Duncan 's murder . |
| 12 | It may start with the first glimpse she gets of the man she is destined to love , or the man she believes wrongly that she is destined to love . |
| 13 | She tells of the struggle between the administrators in Washington and the scientists in the laboratories . |
| 14 | She speaks of the change that took place in Eva 's life at her conversion . |
| 15 | The next example is an account of a teacher 's observation of children at play whereby she learns of the children 's own discoveries as they experiment for themselves . |
| 16 | It is her whole situation — she is so mournful and silently accusing and sometimes , Robert , I think her as mad as Landor with all this nonsense she makes of the Bible from time to time . |
| 17 | Still , it staves of the risk of an epileptic fit . |
| 18 | In their extreme forms the ‘ techniques ’ school would have it that an actor 's performance is detached from his own feelings during performance , that he represents a distillation of what he understands of the character 's feelings ; the Stanislavkian actor , on the other hand , becomes emotionally involved as he performs his role . |
| 19 | This suggests that he thinks of the impression as being something that could have a name of its own . |
| 20 | Raleigh replies when the Queen asks him what he thinks of the dispute between Essex and Mountjoy , and the last line is set with a homely finality which reminds us that , by the end of Gloriana 's reign , Raleigh is no longer a young man , and that the historic Raleigh had a taste for literary homily , as in his poem The Lie " . |
| 21 | Evidently he thinks of the distinction as being no more than a useful device for developing and explaining his claim , that all ideas derive from experience . |
| 22 | what he thinks of the match has n't he ? |
| 23 | The document is aimed at stimulating international solidarity , not only with regard to the effects of the refugee crisis , but above all tot he causes of the tragedy . |
| 24 | Elsewhere he writes of the need to oppose those who see politics as a science , which would let Reason transcend the political . |
| 25 | However , Kubota promises to demonstrate what it has of the subsystem at a series of private viewings during the show . |
| 26 | The issue of decentralization of services to local bases in the community has inevitably brought with it questions of the decentralization of budgets . |
| 27 | He says of the liberals that they were placed in a predicament by the fall : ‘ A democracy can not be imposed by force , the majority must favour it , yet the majority wanted what Khomeini wanted — an Islamic republic . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a very folksy piece , ’ he says of the Hsiao concerto . |
| 29 | ‘ I would n't have given odds on it lasting ten minutes , ’ he says of the programme 's early days . |
| 30 | It warns of the danger of short-term economic gains compared with a ‘ well-considered strategy involving massive investment by public and private sectors ’ . |