Example sentences of "[vb past] of [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eadberht abdicated of his own accord in 758 , handing the kingdom over to his son , Oswulf , and becoming a cleric at York ( where he died in 768 ) , but Oswulf was killed within the year by his own household in 759 near the unidentified settlement of Methel Wongtun and replaced by Aethelwald Moll , who is likely to have been associated with those who were responsible for Oswulf 's murder ; nor did Eadberht 's descendants recover royal power for twenty years . |
| 2 | In the end Frank and I met of our own volition . |
| 3 | The embassy grounds , emptied of their temporary visitors , were unrecognisably battered . |
| 4 | TOP model Imam , above , weeps as US senators and reporters in Washington watch a documentary she made of her hunger-torn homeland , Somalia . |
| 5 | The success that Mr Clinton made of his economic package — the speed with which Congress passed his deficit-reduction measures , the positive reaction in the markets — convinced too many that he would turn all he touched to gold . |
| 6 | ‘ Your notes — those you made of your last reconnaissance flight … |
| 7 | ‘ And what do you suppose Mr Pig and skinny Miss Ginger made of our happy family ? ’ |
| 8 | But he answered all the difficult questions that Harvey Smith 's younger son asked of him last night to defeat a flying round from Philip Heffer on Viewpoint . |
| 9 | ‘ The captain , Stuart Barnes , has done everything asked of him this year . |
| 10 | The question then arose of what alternative government was available . |
| 11 | The bedroom smelled of her musky perfume ; on the floor by the bed was her diary . |
| 12 | ‘ What became of our young friend ? ’ |
| 13 | The will that gave them title had been written on a torn-out page of a 1938 diary , the only paper available when the family learnt of their imminent fate in the gas chamber . |
| 14 | In the UK we have disposed of a number of non-strategic assets for a total of £208 million , which will be received in 1993 , while in February this year we also disposed of our remaining businesses in Australia and withdrew from that country . |
| 15 | He tended to regard the conversion of his son Harilal to Islam as something that was prompted by monetary considerations , and in the case of such converts , he maintains that they should be readmitted to Hinduism without hesitation if they so desired and truly repented of their erroneous actions . |
| 16 | In it , she told of her two years ' hiding from the Nazis in a secret room in her father 's Amsterdam warehouse . |
| 17 | The message behind the television and radio campaign was reinforced by a mother who told of her only daughter being killed three years ago by a drunken motorist . |
| 18 | Miss Gabriel retired from the secretaryship in order to become chairman in January 1941 , and on that occasion she told of her long association with the Guild , which she was chiefly instrumental in establishing thirty years previously . |
| 19 | After the hearing Elizabeth Lamplugh told of her own ordeal . |
| 20 | In her memoirs , A Vulnerable Game ( 1989 ) — which contained no hands — Markus also told of her 13-year romance with Harold Lever ( now Lord Lever ) , a minister in the Wilson Government . |
| 21 | ‘ But I do n't think I 'll ever be quite so scared of cows again , ’ she added , when she told of her perilous passage through the herd and how afraid she 'd been . |
| 22 | Now 33 , Tabkay told of his gradual approach to Buddhism from his days as a student at university in Norwich . |
| 23 | Roger , who said he was abused from the age of four and saw his mother Virginia regularly beaten , told of his two years in prison for selling cocaine and his former addiction to the drug . |
| 24 | Cowley allowed that slight grimace of disgust to touch his face that told of his total contempt for this particular villain . |
| 25 | John told of his epic journey , when he pedalled 12,500 miles from Sydney back to Liverpool for charity . |
| 26 | He told of his own difficulties in finding time to read all the variable essays submitted and knew of many that were never sent in at all . |
| 27 | " He came of his own accord . " |
| 28 | ‘ I came of my own will , ’ said Harry abruptly . |
| 29 | I disapproved of his grey suede shoes , his floppy bow tie and the excessive width of his trousers : he struck me as flaccid and petulant and I disliked him on sight . |
| 30 | In 1850 , however , the Gawthorpe villagers boasted of their fine maypole and its weathercock to such an extent that the men of neighbouring Chickenley determined to saw it down . |