Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] of [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However there was a y'know significant minority who were not media sensitive , who seemed to send out messages pretty well at random erm they 'd use whatever medium they happened to think of at the t off the spur of the moment rather than actually relating the medium to the message if you like . |
| 2 | It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals . |
| 3 | Sometimes he wanted to practise , and might well require an hour or so on the putting green , or sometimes he fancied a pint or two of some obscure real ale that he had heard of in the vicinity . |
| 4 | It was an idea she had thought of in a vague way yesterday , when she had seen the extent of the gravel ridge that ran beneath the two estates . |
| 5 | She birdied the tenth , her first , but , after that promising start , the rustiness she had talked of at the start of the tournament began to manifest itself . |
| 6 | He had changed his name , of course , but it had been obvious to Fedorov that he was the same man he had disposed of in the Stadtpark three weeks before . |
| 7 | She blamed the example of Harry Paget who had run of with the wife of Wellington 's younger brother . |
| 8 | I 'm certain that those of us who heard Mike Save The Children 's overseas director on the Today programme or our field director in Angola on the evening television news yesterday , can have hold nothing but pride , what they had to say of Save The Children 's work in that country , a country described as the heart of darkness a country with the world 's worse infant mortality rate . |