Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the Rowdies group , there was some confusion as to who was and who was not an aggro leader and also with regard to the characteristic behaviours expected of such a person . |
| 2 | ‘ I was reminded of this a year ago when I was spending some time with one of my sisters . |
| 3 | Everybody in Paris and indeed in all France knows what a flower seller 's bunch of violets looks like , but whoever heard of such a cookery direction , let alone of a sauce containing a mixture of dates and parsley ? " |
| 4 | As I was permanently hungry , he used to make enormous treacle puddings — it was the first time in my life I had heard of such a dish — and always made sure I got a big helping . |
| 5 | We had never heard of such a ferry , nor has the local history department at Liverpool Central Library . |
| 6 | When I consulted the Lancashire Association of Parish & Town Councils they had never heard of such a charge being made . |
| 7 | Abrams , who said he had never heard of such a thing before , asked him no more about them . |
| 8 | ‘ A few years ago you would niver have heard of such a thing . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never heard of such a thing ! |
| 10 | The local man said he 'd never heard of such a thing . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've never heard of such a thing ! |
| 12 | Paul felt his heart stop ; he had heard of such a thing ; he should have known ; that woman — |
| 13 | Never heard of such a thing . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've heard of such a thing , of course , but I 've never seen it myself . |
| 15 | Whoever heard of such a thing ! ’ |
| 16 | We had never heard of such a thing ; and apparently it had only recently been catalogued , after a spate of Australian deaths on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 17 | I have never heard of such a thing in all the worlds . ’ |
| 18 | Whoever heard of such a thing ? |
| 19 | ‘ I 've never heard of such a thing . ’ |
| 20 | A tol tolerably well behaved one would say peasant association , I 've lived here for decades tilling my land , I 've never heard of such a thing before and I have managed to live alright , I advise you to give it up . |
| 21 | Erm now he talks about the vanguards of revolutions i it 's just his distinction between the types of of peasant erm he looks at the rich peasants first of all and originally they 're , they 're not into revolution at all , you know , they do n't want to join peasant associations because they 've got nothing to gain erm as er er had said before , you know , p if you ask a rich peasant to join he 's gon na say well , you know , I 've never heard of such a thing before , you know , I 've , I can manage to live alright , I advise you to gi er give it up or alternatively he may just say , you know , good God no , you know , it 's too dangerous I , I do n't want to be knocked off by my landlord . |
| 22 | ‘ I have never heard of such a potion . |
| 23 | " In Christ 's name , who 's ever heard of such a place ? " |
| 24 | Harrison had written of such a lack among the Cyclopes . |
| 25 | But to resist ecstasy : who would have thought of such a thing ? |
| 26 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 27 | I had not thought of such a thing . |
| 28 | You could hardly have dreamed of such a possibility . |
| 29 | I had never dreamed of such a thing . |
| 30 | She had dreamed of such a moment so often . |