Example sentences of "[vb pp] [indef pn] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if she had heard nothing of the gossip about his private life before she accepted him , certain ladies he had discarded , both married and single , took care that she overheard quite a lot now . |
| 2 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 3 | Michael Mills ’ production , always avoiding the self-consciously funny , has caught something of the style — and I choose the comparison with due care — of Laurel and Hardy . ’ |
| 4 | Having considered something of the nature of aesthetic perception , it remains necessary to link this with education and with techniques stemming from Personal Construct theory which might well be used both for learning and for investigation in the area of artistic appraisal . |
| 5 | His father had not expected anything of the kind and was disappointed . |
| 6 | Fabia went to bed that night having seen nothing of the man who had given her a lift , but with other more important issues rising to the surface . |
| 7 | Furse had no personal experience of imperial administration , and until he began the series of journeys associated with his work of recruitment , had seen nothing of the empire apart from a brief visit to Ceylon . |
| 8 | As often as not , He has done nothing of the kind . |
| 9 | It was a disgraceful act which I do not condone , but I am almost certain my son had done nothing of the kind before . |
| 10 | You say you have bestowed your gift of the secret of life on mankind , but in fact you have done nothing of the sort . |
| 11 | They just do nt seem to be sharp enough or is it that midfield are n't providing good service — I ca n't really say as I 've seen none of the games , just read reports . |
| 12 | But she had never felt at home with him , perhaps because , with his confident good looks and the air of arrogance in his bearing , he seemed both to represent and to have absorbed something of the mystery and potency of the power he operated . |
| 13 | In the event , Sodom could not produce even ten good men , but we have seen something of the lengths to which God 's mercy goes . |
| 14 | It would have been better if we could have come at the weekend & seen something of the family , but Richard had long-standing plans involving friends of his who could only come ( from Macclesfield ) on Saturday . |
| 15 | The news provoked among Zuwaya an instant recognition of necessary truth : they had always suspected something of the kind . |
| 16 | Labelling theory has revealed something of the genesis of individual theories of the self in society , but we know little about the mechanisms and occasions of large-scale learning of such things . |
| 17 | A major review paper in 1956 also revealed something of the fusion research under way in the US . |
| 18 | Of course , it had n't so far done anything of the kind , and he had to arrive at the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 19 | ‘ Have you seen anything of the unicorn ? ’ |
| 20 | I 've never said anything of the sort to anyone — far less a journalist . |
| 21 | That , in itself , was not unusual ; but for once he had been told nothing of the reason for the meeting . |
| 22 | But I have n't got none of the power . |
| 23 | In themselves they were by no means new — they were indeed centuries old — but they constituted a direct challenge to the rather abstract and clear-cut penal theory which was much subscribed to on both sides of the Atlantic , and to this extent also reflected something of the atmosphere of the new age . |
| 24 | We were once promised something of the sort from Anna Ford back at ITN , but it never happened . |
| 25 | But even had I been told something of the nature of their relationship , I am not sure that I would have understood or believed , or felt betrayed . |
| 26 | Whether I have conveyed anything of the delight we took in his company I do n't know and his exact words may have been even better but the magic of his style returns to me and I had another giggle writing this . |
| 27 | In the middle of many clashes and difficulties were the men whom I had met , and to whom , if I had been a true friend , I might have given something of the faith and spirit which could have helped them find a better way for their people . |
| 28 | But there was some trouble with her in her early teens and perhaps she 'd guessed something of the truth . |
| 29 | He replied , apparently to the students ' dissatisfaction , that he had himself encountered nothing of the kind and indeed that many of those who had started off the war with him and seen it through to the end had become major military commanders . |
| 30 | John the Baptist 's ritual at the Jordan would certainly seem to have entailed something of the sort . |