Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine . |
| 2 | Before Lord George obtained this command , however , his inability to render the services expected of him by some of the family 's political friends was a liability , and was seen as such by Montrose , who wrote with some anxiety to deny allegations that the son of another gentleman of the region was serving in Lord George 's ship , but was on board the flagship of the admiral . |
| 3 | If the ‘ qualified driver ’ does not do what can be reasonably expected of him regarding these duties the learner could be said to be not under supervision . |
| 4 | Bad behaviour was expected of you in those times . |
| 5 | But the dreariness , the frightful struggle of life , the indifference of people , the troublesomeness of children — he did not want to be reminded of them at that moment . |
| 6 | To sum up , in positing an item as an ontological existent we are at the same time by implication positing this item as a potential subject of a non-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates , and hence as completely determinate with regard to possible descriptions that may be given of it at any given time . |
| 7 | ‘ You have not heard of me from any other person ? ’ |
| 8 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 9 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 10 | When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all . |
| 11 | Never heard of him after that did you I mean ? |
| 12 | No more is heard of him after this , although Kympton was acting as agent for the commissioners of the sick and wounded at Plymouth in 1703 . |
| 13 | You have n't heard of anything like that at all have you ? |
| 14 | A spokesman for The Magistrates Association said : ‘ I have never heard of anything like this happening before . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But I 've never heard of anything like this before . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Jackson said : ‘ I have never heard of anything like this before but it did not really spoil our day . |
| 17 | I have not heard of anything like this before , certainly not up here . |
| 18 | Have you ever heard of anyone in this office being asked to make other arrangements ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We have heard of you for many years . |
| 20 | They have erm what 's called the players ' theatre , I do n't know whether you 've heard of it at all erm they belong , they 're members of it . |
| 21 | I had n't heard of it at all , do n't know what |
| 22 | She had never heard of it in all her time in the house . |
| 23 | The programme showed really well how serious the crime levels were becoming , when a man explained that houses were completely stripped of anything of any value by adults and children alike , to sell as scrap . |
| 24 | He had all their attention now , every eye was wide and bright upon him , Herluin and Robert irresistibly moved to hoping against hope , but very wary of disappointment , Nicol interested but bewildered , for nothing had been said to him of the loss of Saint Winifred 's reliquary , or the possibility that he might have had it aboard his wagon , and had been robbed of it with all the rest . |
| 25 | ‘ Too much is made of something like that , ’ says a cast member who witnessed the row . |
| 26 | A great fuss was made of us on that trip , according to my mother . |
| 27 | Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked . |
| 28 | While many of the 200 young mothers , grandmothers , shoppers and office workers who drifted into the Women 's Education Day might never have thought of themselves in this light , they probably identified immediately with the cartoon on the fact sheet : ‘ I am not just a housewife , I am an accountant , vet , nurse , negotiator , teacher , cook , red coat , driver … ‘ . |
| 29 | Karol Wojtyla was not a ‘ liberal ’ in any Western sense , though he too may briefly have thought of himself in such terms in student days . |
| 30 | She 'd never thought of him as that sort of man . |