Example sentences of "i [verb] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I speak of a stone that turneth all to gold , or a treasure hidden in the menstruum of whores , then the imagination is set to work . |
| 2 | Because when he told me their name was I thought of a girl I used to know called Louise , but it is n't her |
| 3 | It was therefore with a quickening of the blood that I read of a builder in Birmingham who has torn down his house in order to erect something bigger , and inadvertently left his neighbour 's previously attached semi teetering sideways . |
| 4 | From an old book of local walks I read of a route up the Remarkables , the jagged range of peaks which overshadow Queenstown across the lake , and which rise to nearly 8,000 feet . |
| 5 | But I I would n't er if I hear of a girl getting pregnant er you know now now it 's a very common thing I know , but sometimes I feel really sorry for the girls because it 's tying yourself fifteen , sixteen tying yourself down to children . |
| 6 | It tears my heart out whenever I hear of a mining tragedy and because I am not there to help or even to sympathise , something inside me feels the need to shout to all people , southerners especially who have never had fathers , husbands , sons to worry about when each day they are swallowed into the apron of the earth . |
| 7 | I find it tragic when I hear of a couple where one knows the other is dying , but neither can bear to talk about it . |
| 8 | I know of a school not far from this place where there are many highly deprived children , but they work well . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't like to say that there is not such a thing as black magic but I know of a coincidence , or something that happened regularly . |
| 10 | I know of a couple who would suit , and who would live in the house with the children while you yourself were exercising — ’ he smiled , showing false teeth — ‘ your considerable talents on the stage . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I know of a drug which is a bloody good cure for a cold but it 's on the banned list because it 's supposed to act as a boost . |
| 12 | ‘ But I know of a way . ’ |
| 13 | I know of a fellow of over sixty who took out a policy . |
| 14 | I know of a manager who seems to get great pleasure by bullying females and male w and male workers . |
| 15 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ The first time I heard of a case I could not believe it . |
| 17 | Yes I heard of a lot of things , the coil , er my my sister had the coil and erm and of course the cap which which it what I had . |
| 18 | It struck me as incongruous when I heard of a parish church , in a commuter town south of London , which was to enact a nativity play . |
| 19 | In Berlin , for example , I heard of a woman addressed as Fräulein ( ‘ Miss ’ , literally ‘ little woman ’ and widely regarded as a put-down , so that many German women have abandoned it in favour of Frau ) by a male bus driver , who said ‘ Danke , Fräulein' when she tendered her fare . |
| 20 | We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion . |
| 21 | God knows I do n't want to rot here if I knew of a way out , surely that 's plain . ’ |
| 22 | Of course you can well I knew of a girl who married I would n't say she 'd married well when she started out but her husband was enterprising e eventually got himself quite a good job at the at people who print the bank notes so so that they they started off in a prefab and they ended up with a new four bedroom bungalow with central heating at Athorpe Roding . |
| 23 | I knew of a man who needed an assassin . |
| 24 | You see , I knew of a place in southern Africa where it hardly ever rains . |
| 25 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
| 26 | Last night I dreamed of a prospect |
| 27 | I feel like a worker in Stalinist Russia denouncing his comrades but I say , ‘ Well , I thought of a couple of friends of mine … ’ |
| 28 | But I thought of a barrister |
| 29 | I thought of a way of avoiding the cliché and asked , ‘ What is the average life expectancy of someone with follicular lymphoma ? ’ |
| 30 | Then I thought of a way to cheer them up . |