Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An undertrained and under-educated work-force led inexorably to balance of payments problems . |
| 2 | All too typically I saw enthused teachers returning from training , armed with new perspectives who became progressively drained of optimism as they faced non-understanding in colleagues , shortage of resources , lack of follow-up support , and who ended up despairing and cynical about possibilities of real change . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw the look on your face in the coffee-bar when Gavin said you 'd better beware of skeletons in your cupboard — frankly , it was a dead give-away that you had something to hide . ’ |
| 4 | If she 'd already heard of Burrows ’ escape , she would assume that our attention would be directed towards him . |
| 5 | He 'd always thought of gypsies as swarthy of complexion , but this girl 's face was pale olive and he knew that if he touched it , it would be as soft as silk . |
| 6 | She 'd immediately thought of Jordan . |
| 7 | And the typing college was a come down , I can tell you , from his idea that she would go into a profession ; he 'd even thought of university . |
| 8 | Although commissions of array continued to be used for major expeditions led by the king or the Prince of Wales , such as those of 1346 and 1359 , the armies which fought in France came increasingly to consist of volunteers rather than conscripts ; and this in itself goes some way towards explaining popular support for the war . |
| 9 | John , 39 , found the record haul while renovating a Liverpool house and dumped them ‘ because I 'd never heard of Larry Lurex ’ . |
| 10 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 11 | I 'd never heard of Eternity before , nor had anyone I knew . |
| 12 | Well , I 'd never heard of Lloyd 's . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd never heard of Guillain-Barré Syndrome before . |
| 14 | I 'd never heard of work till that moment , and there I was thinking of myself dressed in trousers and sitting at a desk with a ledger . |
| 15 | I 'D never heard of Mike Harding until I moved to Sedbergh , a little town not too far from Hawes , but a long way away from anywhere else . |
| 16 | Well I 'd never heard of salt being put down before ! |
| 17 | Wish we 'd never heard of car dealers . |
| 18 | I 'd never heard of Knudsen until earlier this morning when I was somewhere over the North Sea on my way from England and I happened to open a magazine aimed at Nordic Airport passengers . |
| 19 | He 'd never heard of Vecchi and was n't interested in finding anybody by that name . |
| 20 | Report by Ms de Meaner Aside from Katie Mallett who , early on , informed me she would n't be entering this comp ( she 'd never heard of Summerhill ) , most of the regulars entered . |
| 21 | The men and women I met often spoke of regret and loss — not a nostalgia for the past , those glazed memories that falsify the hard history of the working people by claiming that the past was better . |
| 22 | Having for ten years owned and managed one of the most successful econometric consultancy companies in the world ( then called Economic Models Limited ) , I became increasingly disabused of notions for controlling the flow of economic events against their natural movement . |
| 23 | Unfortunately two weeks after her last gold injection she presented acutely complaining of lethargy , anorexia , weight loss ( 9.5 kg ) , abdominal pain , and watery diarrhoea ( up to 20 times per day ) with a small amount of blood . |
| 24 | Our Lord did indeed warn of persecutions , heresy and growing violence in the last days . |
| 25 | He wrote highly thought of articles on technique for the British Journal of Photography , and eventually became official photographic instructor to his beloved Royal Geographical Society . |
| 26 | Moreover it is true that in one or two specific minor ways the express tried positively to limit serfdom — by ordering in 1781 that war prisoners were in future to become free men if they were converted to Orthodoxy ; and by reducing the possibilities which had hitherto existed of enserfment by marriage . |
| 27 | Her three eldest sons had all died of disease , and the fourth had not yet been born . |
| 28 | P appealed to the High Court , contending that no part of his interest ‘ came to an end ’ within para 4(2) ; he had merely disposed of shares in Q. Similarly , para 4(2) was not deemed to operate by virtue of para 4(1) , which provided that a disposal of an interest in possession of any property was not a transfer of value , but should be treated as the coming to the end of an interest in possession , bringing into play para 4(2) . |
| 29 | It also ignored the fact that most Lionisers had already heard of Rochester and were aware of the importance of Rochester in the canon of the Great Lion . |
| 30 | Also , by the time of publication , the world had already heard of Hawking 's genius ; FRS at 32 and Lucasian Professor ( Newton 's former chair ) at 37 ; a brilliant mind trapped by motor neurone disease in an ever-wasting body . |