Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the stroke made none of the impact she was expecting . |
| 2 | One banking employee told me of the demise of her bank branch . |
| 3 | He is a double winner of the rally but that was some time ago and since then McKinstry has made the place very much is own , his sequence of victories punctuated only by the years in which he did not have a competitive car or the opposition included someone of the calibre of Mikael Sundstrom . |
| 4 | This force possessed none of the gentle , coaxing qualities associated with telepathic races . |
| 5 | The whole interview reminded him of the English card game in which you not only had to guess what cards your opponent held , but decide what he thought yours were , and so on . |
| 6 | Her grief had none of the sanctions of legitimacy . |
| 7 | Arab labour had none of the securities which Jewish labour enjoyed through its trade union federation , the Histadrut . |
| 8 | Felipe 's possessive attitude rid her of the attentions of Peter Rainford and when Felipe offered to show them Ana 's skills neither of them looked overjoyed . |
| 9 | The boy repeated none of the simple errors he had made first time round . |
| 10 | The editor knew nothing of the story of Boyd 's promotion , about to be featured in the financial section , and she said firmly that it was Henry she wanted . |
| 11 | I had completely forgotten Karen until her squeal of laughter reminded me of the answer to Alison 's question . |
| 12 | Tonson 's title-page said nothing of the sort ; only that the word-book offered for sale in 1693 was a new improved version . |
| 13 | Bought clothing in the south had none of the hard-wearing qualities of northern home-spun . |
| 14 | The African told him of the anger in the hearts of his generation . |
| 15 | During a recent visit to an old people 's home , the officer in charge told me of the efforts she had to make to prevent the local children from taunting and mocking the residents-often through the windows . |
| 16 | In 1935 Louis Aragon proudly proclaimed to the world that his encounter with communism and the revolutionary society of the Soviet Union had transformed him into an entirely new man , had rejuvenated him , re-educated him , and in the process cured him of the social disease of his bourgeois class origins . |
| 17 | Just on half-time , a long ball from Milne put him through within excellent shooting distance of Thomson , but McCart 's late intervention robbed him of the golden chance to break the deadlock . |
| 18 | That war robbed him of the prime of his career , when he was the best player in the world . |
| 19 | He said that looking out from the platform towards the town reminded him of the late President Kennedy looking out over the Berlin Wall . |
| 20 | The German mortar team reminded me of the Commando mortar team back in the orchard at Brigade H.Q when they were mortaring the German positions . |
| 21 | The competitiveness in the group reminded me of the casting board at drama school . |
| 22 | On the day after President Shagari 's arrival in Britain , one UpN state newspaper reported nothing of the visit , commenting instead in an editorial that he should not have left the country at a time when the doctors were on strike : it had been ‘ unpatriotic ’ for him to do so . |
| 23 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 24 | Lewis became champion when unified title-holder Riddick Bowe unceremoniously dumped his WBC belt in a bin , and the angry Mexico City-based organisation stripped him of the title . |
| 25 | As the hon. Member for Uxbridge ( Mr. Shersby ) pointed out , the courts and the public receive very confused and contradictory messages from the Home Office and from Ministers , whose words suggest that the police and the magistrates must be backed up , but whose actions have on occasion deprived them of the support that they need . |
| 26 | Oh yeah , he told me afterwards right , that he , the only reason he was angry was because Friday night reminded him of the time in his past or something ! |
| 27 | The proprietor reminded me of the man who used to travel round the Forest villages killing pigs . |
| 28 | The driver 's cab reminded me of the bridge ofa ship and , as in mid-ocean looking into infinity , I could almost make out the curve in the surface of the earth . |
| 29 | The colour reminded him of the paintings of hell by the mediaeval painter , Ferdinand Breughel . |
| 30 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |