Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] of the " in BNC.

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1 Then we lowered the sail and sat in the sun , and Pierre spoke of the lot he and his fellow villagers had been born to , the weeks at sea , the gales , the great hauls of fish , the hardships and achievements of a Breton fisherman 's life , while we ate the food he had brought with him , and drank his rough cider .
2 Pierre Naville , for instance , enthused that we should get pleasure from the streets of the city in which kiosks , autos , and lights were in a sense already representations , and Breton spoke of the world as ‘ automatic writing ’ ( Krauss 1985b , p. 99 ) .
3 Thus Naville enthused that we should get pleasure from the streets of the city in which kiosks , autos , and lights were in a sense already representations , and Breton spoke of the world itself as ‘ automatic writing ’ .
4 And Spencer spoke of the ability to understand an experience with the wisdom of a child plus the older experience of later years .
5 Simon and Nigel spoke of the history of their branch .
6 The sharp peaks are what Hoffman identified as the markers for 1461 and 2615 keV ; the signal that interested Fleischmann and Pons consists of the dotted structure around 2500 keV .
7 Phizacklea and Miles warn of the limits of any strategy premised on the assumption ( made in the 1970s by the TUC and the Labour Party ) that ‘ the way to eliminate working-class racism was to provide counter-arguments to common racist beliefs ’ , to push out of workers ' heads an ideological baggage primarily produced by the dominant class and replace it by ‘ the truth ’ .
8 She gave Jenna a startled look and disappeared , and Jenna thought of the mess she had made of her things .
9 My point here is that the surrealists and Benjamin spoke of the destruction of the ( modernist and auratic ) distinction between art and life .
10 Selwyn Lloyd , Redmayne and Blakenham warned of the effect on the party .
11 Technology serves as a ‘ background ideology ’ that takes on legitimizing power and Habermas writes of the fetishization of science as a ‘ new ’ ideology .
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