Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Despondent souls , ’ it was said , ‘ and there are not a few of these , seem to have been struck only by one part of the Führer 's speech : where he spoke of the preparations for the winter campaign in 1942–43 . |
| 2 | The son was cross ; but if he thought of the possibility of keeping his own salary for himself , he never voiced it . |
| 3 | If he knew of the insult offered me he would want revenge — and against the Husseys he can not possibly speed . |
| 4 | And if he knew of the wanton pictures chasing one another through her head his insulting opinion of her would no doubt be confirmed . |
| 5 | The accused , therefore , is guilty of blackmail against a timorous person , when a reasonable person would not have been frightened , only if he knew of the timidity . |
| 6 | IAN Gow , the Conservative member for Eastbourne , is famed for three things : a doglike devotion to the Prime Minister , a deadpan sense of humour , and his quixotic resignation as housing minister because he disapproved of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 7 | Among Wright 's many charitable actions was the building of the church of St Martin at Osmaston ( because he disapproved of the high-church tendencies of the parish church ) and the founding of Trent College in 1866 , one of whose houses was named after Wright . |
| 8 | He was relaxed , a contrast to the tension which had gripped him while he spoke of the MacQuillan calumny . |
| 9 | Seven hours after he learnt of the accident , ‘ it was already clear to me how dreadful the consequences were . ’ |
| 10 | IRISH Prime Minister Albert Reynolds came under Unionist fire last night after he spoke of the importance of the Republic 's constitution to nationalists north of the border . |
| 11 | The former Kray henchman dashed Fleet Street scribes ' hopes for a headline such as ‘ The Silence Of The Lambrianou ’ when he said of the underworld bloodletting : ‘ It was the biggest mistake the Krays made . ’ |
| 12 | In the first place , in a style in which one of the fundamental problems had always been the reconciliation of solid form with the picture plane , the letters written or stencilled across the surface are the most conclusive way of emphasizing its two-dimensional character ; Braque has stressed this when he said of the letters : ‘ they were forms which could not be distorted because , being quite flat , the letters existed outside space and their presence in the painting , by contrast , enabled one to distinguish between objects situated in space and those outside it . ’ |
| 13 | It is not precisely clear when he knew of the extra cases . |
| 14 | Sweeney Agonistes also recalls Eliot 's childhood when he wrote of the ‘ South Pacific ’ . |
| 15 | Paul Oldfield topped the lot in Melody Maker when he wrote of the track ‘ Living And Learning ’ that it ‘ made me think of a man who favoured The Jasmine Minks and My Bloody Valentine , but whose bedroom was so damp that miraculous spores and mildew afflicted his brown suede and paisley . ’ |
| 16 | Howbeit all these things appeared as nothing to Rodrigo when he thought of the wrong done to his father , the first which had ever been offered to the blood of Layn Calvo . |
| 17 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 18 | When he thought of the law , his chosen profession , his head filled with the savour of dust ; he could taste it on his tongue , mousey and dry , and smell the foist of the archives where he had to pore over the huge books of cases , statutes , precedents . |
| 19 | When he heard of the disappearance of Mrs Wilks , 22 , he drove back down the motorway and noted the marker post number where he saw the car . |
| 20 | When he heard of the murder this morning , he was terrified of being questioned , imagining that Vera would somehow get to hear that he 'd spent the night at the Lodge — especially if he was detained . |
| 21 | With some exceptions , the gentry and clergy readily accepted the Restoration in 1660 ; few went as far as the Reverend Dr William Oughtred who , at the age of 86 , ‘ died of excess of joy when he heard of the restoration of the monarchy ’ . |
| 22 | When he heard of the incident he imprisoned Bothwell in Edinburgh castle , but continued to fear the earl 's powers . |
| 23 | That is why Paul was so angry and distressed when he heard of the divisions in the Christian church at Corinth . |
| 24 | " That Cassowary will come to a band end , " grunted old Owl when he heard of the goings-on . |
| 25 | But big-hearted Gerry laughed when he heard of the prank . |
| 26 | When he heard of the multiple deaths , he committed suicide by throwing himself under a lorry . |
| 27 | Smith was annoyed when he heard of the decision for a jump-off in Belfast this weekend which will determine who will join the team for the championships in Rome later this month . |
| 28 | On occasions Mr Parry was seen to wring his hands as he struggled with his emotions when he spoke of the impact of recent events , since the double IRA bomb blast cut down Tim and three-year-old Johnathan Ball in Warrington town centre on Saturday March 20 . |
| 29 | Stevenson knew this when he spoke of the ‘ subarctic sunsets , with the profile of the city stamped in indigo upon a sky of luminous green ’ . |
| 30 | The hon. Member for Westminster , North touched on that , but he was not convincing when he spoke of the underlying causes of that crime . |