Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] of [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |
| 4 | Two Bengali women in their twenties told me of many women they knew , and knew of , who were thus stranded . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In 1330 , however , Edward III successfully rid himself of that control and Mortimer was himself executed . |
| 7 | But when I rejected everything of this sort to set myself to one purpose , my soul was absorbed with love for my Maker . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Diogenes , instead of building his own success and fulfilling himself , did the opposite and stripped himself of all pride so that there was no way anyone could hurt him . |
| 13 | At school lunches she showed none of this nonsense , nor was it displayed at home when she ate informally in front of the television in the evening . |
| 14 | She informed him of this conclusion , and with his usual calm he accepted it . |
| 15 | The War had emptied him ; stripped him of all illusions . |
| 16 | ‘ We heard nothing of that kind , ’ I said . |
| 17 | Stratton availed himself of neither opportunity . |
| 18 | He also availed himself of some relationship to Monck , but he presumed too much on his use of the name of Henry Bennet , Earl of Arlington [ q.v. ] , to cover his own corrupt financial transactions and was committed to the Fleet prison , from which he was released after pleading ‘ nine small lamenting children ’ . |
| 19 | Alas for Waldron , his Wales achieved none of these aspirations , least of all the last and , as the recent French match showed , to this day muddled decision-making infects Welsh play . |
| 20 | Some crafty young entrepreneurs steamed in and relieved her of several pairs of Pumas at a knockdown price . |
| 21 | When Molly joined him he would ask hopefully if she were feeling tired or , even perhaps more hopefully , as though it relieved him of all responsibility , if she had the curse . |
| 22 | I availed myself of this service . |
| 23 | Curiously , there were very few who availed themselves of this privilege . |
| 24 | In particular , at the very end of the questionnaire we invited general comments about SSE and one-third of the teachers who responded availed themselves of this opportunity . |
| 25 | Feeling himself very much at a crossroads , he delivered himself of some reflections on the modern times they were living through . |
| 26 | He did n't quite know why he 'd hoped that Alex could be cleared of the murder , but the confirmation of his friend 's guilt sapped him of all energy . |
| 27 | I thought nothing of that incident until , maybe a year later , there it was installed and detailed in my mind . |
| 28 | He robbed them of all dignity . ’ |
| 29 | And our love does not depend on anything , though for years we saw nothing of each other , still we should love . |
| 30 | I never saw nothing of that Miss Baird , only Mr Forbes standing there like he says , and Jessie right beside him . ’ |