Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] of [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They took her to a small , perfect restaurant , where she had never been before , and fed her on soup and fish and meat and cheese , all of a quality and in quantities she had only dreamed of during the war . |
| 2 | Ben studied his brother — the man he had always thought of as his father and saw suddenly that it did not matter what he was in reality , for Hal Shepherd had become what he believed he was . |
| 3 | Its not-very-complicated mind was trying to come to terms with the fact that the shape of the nomes — two arms , two legs , a head at the top — was a shape it associated with humans and had learnt to avoid , but the size was the size it had always thought of as a mouthful . |
| 4 | It 's everything I 've ever dreamed of in a cock . |
| 5 | She was content to let it wash over her , occasionally noticing , like someone with a different first language , the way they laughed at things she did n't see the humour of , were made angry by perfectly innocent-sounding newspaper articles , discussed people she had never heard of as if they were better known than the Royal Family . |
| 6 | Food in the supermarkets , for example — we 're now quite used to all sorts of delicacies that most British people had never heard of in the '70s . |
| 7 | the island boasts an abundance of wild life — you will see animals , birds and fish that you have never dreamed of in a setting of luxurious vegetation . |