Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I had never thought of him like that before . ’ |
| 32 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 33 | I 've never thought of her in any other way and never will ; she may look like you , physically , but inside you 're as different as you can possibly be . |
| 34 | ‘ If you 've thought of me at all since we last met I 'd be very surprised . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ I suppose you could say that , but I had never thought of it in those terms . |
| 36 | How was I to combat it , physically , menially , and although I had n't thought of it in those terms , spiritually as well ? |
| 37 | It seemed dreadful that I did n't know whether I loved him or not , that I had never even thought of it in those terms . |
| 38 | ‘ I had n't thought of it like that . |
| 39 | Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before . |
| 40 | ‘ I had n't thought of it like that . ’ |
| 41 | I had n't thought of it like that . |
| 42 | He wondered what he had done to make his parents want to get rid of him for most of the summer holidays . |
| 43 | But you do n't get rid of me like that . |
| 44 | Yes , I think that everybody recognizes that you should use the medicine that the doctor prescribes in the way he prescribes it and when you 've finished the treatment you should put it down the lavatory or get rid of it in some other safe way , but not keep it so that you can try it yourself again a bit later on and perhaps get confused and when you 've got boils on your neck take something which was meant for ingrowing toe nails or something like that . |
| 45 | You expect to be notified of anything like that . |
| 46 | They simply show the courtesy and respect demanded of them in such a society as theirs . |
| 47 | After we had rehearsed for three weeks , on the very last night of rehearsal , we worked till four in the morning then photos were taken of us in these spangled costumes ; because they stretched from our ankles to our necks , we could n't sit down . |
| 48 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 49 | He was never convicted of anything in this country . |
| 50 | Nevertheless , I could never be sure exactly what was required of me on these occasions . |
| 51 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |