Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 2 | Archaeologists from Newcastle University have already made a number of test excavations at the site of the extension and found nothing of historical value . |
| 3 | He found plenty of thickish sticks and picked up far more than he needed . |
| 4 | They found plenty of common Church interests and then friendship ; they had conversations , which Ramsey enjoyed enormously , about matters political as well as religious ; Ramsey went over to Garrowby several times for meals or to stay the night and celebrate the sacrament in the morning ; and he conducted Halifax 's funeral at Kirby Underdale in 1959 . |
| 5 | Switching between the different combinations of effects and processors produced the same results , and apart from inventing some really stupid effect chains I found plenty of interesting combinations ; these could be mixed with the dry signal without losing any of the basic guitar sound . |
| 6 | It seems to me that this is something on which er not en passant but within the flow of his report Dr Stuart mentioned something of great importance and I was jotting down for myself , by way of aide memoire , membership , Madagascar , ministry of the whole people of God , three Ms as it were . |
| 7 | They might have mislaid the formula for operating over five days — December 1986 is the last time England beat anyone of any consequence when asked to bat and bowl for longer than 55 overs — but there is no getting away from their ability to play the negative stuff as well as anyone else . |
| 8 | Partly because the financial fun enriched lots of powerful people in Japan . |
| 9 | To the right of the steps was the gas cooker , a black monster which provided lots of hard work to keep it clean and at the side of this stood my father 's wooden tool chest . |
| 10 | Nature , that framed us of four elements , |
| 11 | red and white scarf got plenty of other reds |
| 12 | The poll also asked which of six technologies would have the greatest practical impact on the respondent 's company in the next five years . |
| 13 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |
| 14 | Two Bengali women in their twenties told me of many women they knew , and knew of , who were thus stranded . |
| 15 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 16 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 17 | Kate said the evening had been a great success : it received plenty of local press coverage , the Rossendale Group increased its membership , and the Mayor agreed to donate £100 to Amnesty . |
| 18 | ‘ We played plenty of pretty football at Spurs , but it was n't good enough because we just did n't threaten them ‘ We will The side I put out on Wednesday night will have to be positive . |
| 19 | In 1330 , however , Edward III successfully rid himself of that control and Mortimer was himself executed . |
| 20 | Leicestershire won by 133 runs IN MAKING a laudable attempt to sustain interest in a foreshortened contest at Fenner 's , Leicestershire learnt something of long-term disadvantage : their spin-bowling is not of county championship quality . |
| 21 | But when I rejected everything of this sort to set myself to one purpose , my soul was absorbed with love for my Maker . |
| 22 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 23 | I told her of that woman novelist who made a character in Provence ladle out onion soup , followed by bouillabaisse for luncheon , and in summer too . |
| 24 | Indeed his sanguine response to his discovery lent colour to the story when it reached the evening news , and assured it of greater coverage than it might otherwise have merited , that focus in turn bringing a penetrating eye to bear on the identity of the dead man . |
| 25 | In response to the pills question , one pupil found that 50 pills weighed 1 g and then added lots of 50 pills until 250 was reached . |
| 26 | I meant to ask her about it this afternoon , but she 'd lots of other people there . |
| 27 | Tom told us of one horse whose molars on one side of the mouth were excessively short and on the other very long . |
| 28 | They told us of exciting events that had taken place in the valley below their house the previous year , the result of an attempted coup by Ras Hailu , the hereditary ruler of Gojjam . |
| 29 | I can confirm that , of course , I made none of those statements , but I believe that each of them can be attributed to the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 30 | The five-member tribunal sentenced each of them to life imprisonment with hard labour , and also stripped them of all property , civil rights and military rank . |