Example sentences of "he [verb] [det] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was again the bottom drawer in which he found most of interest . |
| 2 | First , he has a scholar 's knowledge of , and passion for , opera — he writes many of Opera North 's programme notes , and very good they are too . |
| 3 | Nor should he , for he has much of value to say . |
| 4 | In an impressive performance he delivered enough of substance , together with a dose of populism , to satisfy his side of the Commons . |
| 5 | Memorable among these exchanges : Johnson believed that men choose weak and ignorant women as their wives because they ‘ know that women are an over-match for them ’ ; he thought little of poetry he had heard from St Kilda : ‘ it must be poor , because they have very few images . ’ |
| 6 | He saw little of Raven . |
| 7 | He knew little of health administration before accepting the position but has become an expert during four years of radical change in the NHS . |
| 8 | Dropped for the Adelaide Test , he returned for the final contest , at Melbourne , where 90,800 attended on the second day , and though he did little of note , he was with Mackay at the end as Australia scraped in by two wickets . |
| 9 | I , I , I do n't know why he talks that of attitude but there we are . |