Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [pron] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bad behaviour was expected of you in those times . |
| 2 | Have you ever heard of anyone in this office being asked to make other arrangements ? ’ |
| 3 | She had never heard of it in all her time in the house . |
| 4 | 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 … ‘ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose you could say that , but I had never thought of it in those terms . |
| 9 | How was I to combat it , physically , menially , and although I had n't thought of it in those terms , spiritually as well ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They simply show the courtesy and respect demanded of them in such a society as theirs . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was never convicted of anything in this country . |