Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to laying the information Mrs Bujok had not served an abatement notice upon the council or informed them of the alleged defects in the premises . |
| 2 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 3 | And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next . |
| 4 | ‘ He immediately rang his bosses and told them of the theft . |
| 5 | Unable to hold his excitement , Clark telephoned Professor Frank Cox of King 's College London and told him of the results . |
| 6 | When Vivien appeared on the set badly made-up , with her wig perched ridiculously high on her head and refusing to alter a single thing , Asher reluctantly called Olivier and told him of the problems . |
| 7 | By the time Adam and Billie were drinking their coffees , the contact had interrupted Kragan at a training meeting and told him of the two foreigners in the Bellevue Hotel who were enquiring about the Dresden Heide . |
| 8 | There are even suggestions that the US appoint its own Chancellor and rid itself of the high-handed monetary czars who ride unchecked across the economic landscape . |
| 9 | By converting land into pasture for several years , the land has a chance to recover and rid itself of the heavy level of chemicals in its soil . |
| 10 | The West Ham manager , Billy Bonds , who has already fined Dicks and stripped him of the club captaincy , admitted yesterday : ‘ It is obvious we have had a disciplinary problem this season and it is something we are going to have to try to put straight . |
| 11 | She removed the clinging pink sweater , made famous by the Hollywood Oomph Girl , Lana Turner but which made Sylvia look the part of a streetwalker , and stripped herself of the gaudy , lace-edged cami-knickers she wore beneath . |
| 12 | I met with the station officers at St Anne 's Head in June of this year and informed them of the way that divers should be operating . |
| 13 | King Edward must have guessed this , or possibly some English sympathiser had slipped out of the town by night in a small boat undetected , which was quite possible , and informed him of the situation . |
| 14 | He looked down at Thornton and informed him of the new management attitude . |
| 15 | When they had finished he ran round with a hat and allowed none of the audience to escape , saying : ‘ Gentlemen , for our art . ’ |
| 16 | I behaved with great dignity and showed none of the resentment I may have felt . |
| 17 | It appeared to be feeding normally and showed none of the obvious signs of illness . |
| 18 | ‘ And yet to have been there and heard none of the holy words which we should naturally have listened for from those lips at such a time — how distressing ! ’ |
| 19 | In normal circumstances the men would just have forced their way in and relieved him of the weapon . |
| 20 | Craig came to her side and relieved her of the bowl . |
| 21 | Loyalist protesters have shouted ‘ SS-RUC ’ and ‘ Dublin 's lap dogs ’ , whilst some elected MPs have exhorted RUC men to resign or mutiny and warned them of the possible consequences of their ‘ disloyalty ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 22 | He immediately insisted that Hank should tell his parents , and warned him of the evils of leaving school without succeeding in obtaining the magical Grade 12 , without which there was no hope , he insisted , of leading a normal life . |
| 23 | He welcomed her warmly to the microphone , ‘ one of the more promising younger women members ’ , and warned her of the amber and red lights . |
| 24 | But since she had wrecked Luke 's plans for a country weekend with Lexy , and deprived him of the possibility of replacing her from the ranks of his unofficial harem , perhaps it was hardly surprising that he should demand that she herself should fill the gap . |
| 25 | The roads leading to these houses are guarded to prevent the general species of mankind from entering ; and I felt a slight twinge of sorrow for these rich people who have isolated themselves in these strange colonies and deprived themselves of the society of humble and unpretentious men who add the savour to human society ; for it is only in such men that the real spirit of joy , and freedom resides . |
| 26 | The child of one of her lodgers died in her house in April of an undiagnosed heart complaint — the tiny thing 's heart simply stopped as it lay in its cot — and though she was sorry for it and sympathetic to the last degree she was aware that inside herself she shrugged and felt none of the horror and distress such an event would once have caused her . |
| 27 | ‘ Ted is not local , ’ he told Tamar , ‘ and knew nothing of the danger of that marsh . |
| 28 | That was a mythical representation of Scotland that owed everything to the prejudices of people who lived in the past and knew nothing of the realities of the Scotland that then existed . |
| 29 | Sex in Miranda 's experience was n't a matter of spectacle , but of darkness and touch , magnified by her senses ' usually exacerbated state , the extremes of the night , of smoking and drinking and hunger and tiredness , and she was a blind swimmer through walls of warm water , and knew nothing of the practice and technique of the models in the pictures crammed edge to edge in the shop . |
| 30 | Mr Litmus was quite certain he had n't and knew none of the other teachers had either . |