Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bucephalus eventually died of wounds at thirty years of age , in 326 BC , following Alexander 's war with the Indian king , Porus . |
| 2 | He kept the windows open because the car still smelled of Arabella 's perfume . |
| 3 | Fatal Attraction actress Close said of George Bush 's campaign : ‘ How dare they talk about a kinder and gentler nation . |
| 4 | But lunch now consisted of cottage cheese , salad and two crispbreads . |
| 5 | When he was seven the boy almost died of typhoid . |
| 6 | Several rhynchosaurs have been found in association with fragments of plants ( though it is not possible to say from a juxtaposition of fossils whether those fragments were ever inside the animal ) and the diet probably consisted of leaves , stems , fruit and seeds of seed-ferns , conifers , ginkgos , equisitales ( horsetails ) and ferns ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 7 | The Surveyors-General frequently complained of depredations by local people upon the forest woods , and on one occasion at least appealed for aid to the titular head of the Forest administration . |
| 8 | She turned and walked the long clicking walk down the floor ( the shop strangely quenched of sound and movement ) , tugged back hard on the glass door and with a shake of shiny hair had passed into the random straggle of the street . |
| 9 | But the friendly bobby never dreamed of Malcolm Fairley 's true identity ’ . |
| 10 | On an island nearly denuded of wood , the transportation and erection of statues such as these presents a technical problem that modern man still ponders on . |
| 11 | An observer of the couple once said of Maud Gonne that ‘ the first resolute man of action she meets will have her at his mercy ’ , and so it proved . |
| 12 | Presenting symptoms were not specific as neither patient initially complained of dysphagia . |
| 13 | The boundary of the patch of mesenchyme initially denuded of epidermis has been marked with dots of DiI , applied immediately after the operation ; these are still visible as red spots 18h later . |
| 14 | Twenty months later , the patient again complained of pain in the right upper abdomen . |
| 15 | In producing national network programmes ( the network basically consisted of telegraph wires stretching some 5,000 miles from Vancouver , on the Pacific to Halifax , Nova Scotia on the Atlantic coast ) we soon became familiar with the five time-zones across the country . |
| 16 | The single dead Prussian infantryman , his uniform already looted of food and coins , lay by the bridge . |
| 17 | In April 1102 the pope still spoke of homage and investiture in equally uncompromising terms , but by the end of the year a change of emphasis is observable . |
| 18 | The last the family ever saw of Inez was when she set off in her little red Mini Sunday morning with twenty quid in her purse and her passport . ’ |