Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] of [pron] " in BNC.

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1 But no one has heard anything of him since the collapse of the northern empire . ’
2 Or is it the picture God has given us of himself ?
3 Sometimes when I 've been up early at home walking in the woods and come upon a roe deer close to , motionless , its alarm and scenting has reminded me of her .
4 He has reminded me of what I should have said in my supplementary answer to the hon. Member for Pontypridd ( Dr. Howells ) .
5 ‘ I must say , Alice really has made something of herself !
6 Chelsea moved swiftly after Saturday 's cruciate knee ligament injury to Paul Elliott , which has robbed them of their defensive kingpin for a year .
7 Alec Smith has told me of his studies on the bottom sediment of Lake Windermere in north-west England .
8 He has eaten plenty of them at the Brighton guest house where the Commonwealth of Independent States team , paid for by race sponsors ADT , have stayed since arriving .
9 This much-loved band that went to the hearts of the nation in the 1960s with their number one chart hit HOME IN PASADENA has lost none of its original magic
10 My three-year-old Oscar is feeding and acting normally , and has lost none of its colour , but it has a problem with its pectoral fins .
11 He does this with a modesty and a delight in enquiry which has lost none of its adventure in thirty years .
12 Taylor 's drumming shoots off the Richter Scale and the dual lead attack has lost none of its brain-numbing intensity .
13 It has lost none of its imaginative power or ability to communicate ideas .
14 Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it .
15 After 14 years , the former fire-fighter , architecture graduate and saxophonist has lost none of his initial zeal for the Chapman Stick .
16 If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ?
17 ‘ Although her captivity chafed her and her disappearance , as the lord King has found cause to remind me , has deprived him of her considerable ransom .
18 Your sister-in-law , Mrs Abberley , has informed us of your recent contact with her daughter 's kidnappers . ’
19 A single moment when she 'd reminded him of his sister meant nothing …
20 as if they 'd robbed him of something .
21 [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty
22 ‘ There was no reason to tell you of my proposal until I 'd assured myself of his agreement to it . ’
23 He 'd informed her of his intention to remarry , and she had commented favourably , so he was quite unprepared for her look of horror when Sarah stepped into the house .
24 ‘ He can have heard nothing of himself at all , ’ said Cadfael contentedly .
25 Having divested themselves of their overstocks , they are now issuing some exciting new products and are showing signs of a return to profitability .
26 You will not have added anything of your own .
27 ‘ That 's a particularly nasty thing to say , but maybe I should have expected it of you . ’
28 The blue should have reminded her of his flaming , instead of entrancing her by its own beauty , the beauty which had seemed to be utter and complete in itself .
29 I may have reminded him of his wife or daughter .
30 I 'll have had a good life , and I 'll have tried , and I 'll have made something of myself .
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