Example sentences of "he [verb] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had been later in the season , and the roses in full bloom , he might have missed the portal altogether , but there was just the one unopened bud on the bare branches , of a delicate peach shade with hints of rose which made him think of a girl 's skin . |
| 2 | ‘ Knowing him , I expect he wanted to get rid of anything that made him think of the separation from his family , ’ she said sympathetically . |
| 3 | Gombrich makes him think of the readiness with which the eye recognizes the features of the human face . |
| 4 | Walking with him smacked of an intimacy she wanted to avoid , apart from which the sight of them together would prompt all sorts of speculation among the villagers . |
| 5 | The landlord of the inn which Ernest visited when his mother and his wife became too much for him knew of a coffee-house in the town which needed a kitchenmaid , and because he put in a good word for her , Ruth was given the job without references . |
| 6 | ( 143 ) Something of this can be learned from " The Way to the Churchyard " ( 1901 ) , an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure . |
| 7 | Rose begged him to think of a plan , and the doctor thought hard for a few minutes , frowning fiercely . |
| 8 | ‘ You were a soldier , ’ I said , not as a question , but as a straight assertion of fact , for almost everything about him spoke of the military . |
| 9 | If your client 's property is near an ancient ( medieval or earlier ) Church of England parish church , advise him to enquire of the vicar . |
| 10 | John Morgan , her former driver , says Stompie died in Mrs Mandela 's Soweto home , that she led the assault on him and other youths with a sjambok ( rhino hide whip ) and then ordered him to dispose of the body . |
| 11 | Law consulted Lansdowne on all matters of importance , kept him informed of the progress of negotiations over Ulster , but found him difficult to convince of the merits of compromise . |
| 12 | The usually respectable FRAME News , the newsletter of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments , published it in full ( 1988 : 1–2 ) , and Langley in the Dr Hawden Trust 's Alternative News analysed with some alarm ( he signs of a fight back on the part of the American medical establishment after many years of tactical passivity known as the ‘ bunker strategy ’ ( 1988 : 6–7 ) . |
| 13 | What did he think of the game ? |
| 14 | Did he think of the gesture a little too late ? |
| 15 | ‘ But had n't he heard of the disappearance ? ’ |
| 16 | In their extreme forms the ‘ techniques ’ school would have it that an actor 's performance is detached from his own feelings during performance , that he represents a distillation of what he understands of the character 's feelings ; the Stanislavkian actor , on the other hand , becomes emotionally involved as he performs his role . |
| 17 | What did he make of the threat from Black Africa ? |
| 18 | This suggests that he thinks of the impression as being something that could have a name of its own . |
| 19 | Raleigh replies when the Queen asks him what he thinks of the dispute between Essex and Mountjoy , and the last line is set with a homely finality which reminds us that , by the end of Gloriana 's reign , Raleigh is no longer a young man , and that the historic Raleigh had a taste for literary homily , as in his poem The Lie " . |
| 20 | Evidently he thinks of the distinction as being no more than a useful device for developing and explaining his claim , that all ideas derive from experience . |
| 21 | what he thinks of the match has n't he ? |
| 22 | He read of the death of the Pakistani nuclear scientist last seen in the company of … no leads … |
| 23 | The document is aimed at stimulating international solidarity , not only with regard to the effects of the refugee crisis , but above all tot he causes of the tragedy . |
| 24 | Elsewhere he writes of the need to oppose those who see politics as a science , which would let Reason transcend the political . |
| 25 | ‘ I would n't have given odds on it lasting ten minutes , ’ he says of the programme 's early days . |
| 26 | Shortly after eleven she heard the doorbell ring , then he groaning of the lift and a soft clatter as the grille door closed . |
| 27 | But on the whole it seems true to say that the minors and the ladies were at their lord 's disposal , and that they had little chance of resisting what he did ; but that none the less the lords were limited by custom , and even a king would be expected to consult his counsellors when he disposed of an heiress , as Henry I promised to do in his coronation charter . |
| 28 | In 1814 he told of the arrival at the Swan Inn of a Mr. and Mrs. Nanny who had travelled 245 miles from Wales to London to get advice from Mr. Astley Cooper and other eminent surgeons there . |
| 29 | He told of the death of his father last Christmas , killed by a white man driving recklessly — and the Coroner 's verdict of ‘ death by natural causes , ’ so no compensation was given to the family . |
| 30 | He disapproved of the Prince 's involvement in Operation Raleigh ; he even felt that Charles 's youth and inner-city work was politically border-line and unwise . |