Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " 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 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bad behaviour was expected of you in those times . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ You have not heard of me from any other person ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all . |
| 12 | Hanns Ebensten , who met John when he was about fourteen and quickly became his best friend , first heard of him from one of John 's fellow pupils , Inge May , who with her mother was a lodger at the Ebensten home ( they were all German refugees ) . |
| 13 | Never heard of him after that did you I mean ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 16 | The proceedings against Stratford were referred to a committee of two bishops and four earls , including Arundel and Salisbury , and nothing more was heard of them until 1343 , when the king ordered the charges to be annulled . |
| 17 | ‘ We have heard of you for many years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I had n't heard of it at all , do n't know what |
| 20 | She had never heard of it in all her time in the house . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A great fuss was made of us on that trip , according to my mother . |
| 23 | But while he argues for general connections between the rites , incidentally ignoring the many repudiations of Gnosticism that were made of it by early Christian leaders , his viewpoint is much more balanced than Scobie 's . ) |
| 24 | In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 . |
| 25 | She 'd never thought of him as that sort of man . |
| 26 | ‘ I had never thought of him like that before . ’ |
| 27 | 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 … |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ If you 've thought of me at all since we last met I 'd be very surprised . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose you could say that , but I had never thought of it in those terms . |