Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny , and the illustrations were a bit tasteless . |
| 2 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 3 | I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond . |
| 4 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news . |
| 6 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 7 | I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’ |
| 8 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 9 | I told him of the change in men like Alec Smith , Elliott Gabellah and Arthur Kanodereka . |
| 10 | I learnt something of the joys , frustrations and bitterness of their lives . |
| 11 | I was quite surprised at his reaction when I informed him of the death of ‘ Egg and chips twice ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details . |
| 13 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 14 | I knew nothing of the facts of life until I got to my preparatory school , when at the age of thirteen , all of the boys who were leaving were summoned to the headmaster 's study . |
| 15 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 16 | When I started the book in the summer of 1980 , I knew none of the East End skins . |
| 17 | In my A stream class at " the convent " I knew none of the other girls and rarely saw my former classmates . |
| 18 | I saw nothing of the scenery ; visibility was down to fifty yards . |
| 19 | You know I saw nothing of the sort when I for a fortnight in a . |
| 20 | His brow was moist with perspiration as I reminded him of the broadcast . |
| 21 | I only just caught the train , and when , a quarter of an hour later , we pulled in to Lochgair , and I should have got my bag and quit the Sprinter and walked to the house and finally have talked — sober , and not in the context of a game of Alternative Charades — to my father , and apologised , and spent the three hours until the next Glasgow train with my mother and father in some longed-for spirit of reconciliation , I did nothing of the sort . |
| 22 | When I said something of the sort , Dr Kepepwe explained that most of the original staff of the hospital were serving with British troops in Operation Total Tartary , in Murmansk , Usbekistan , the front in the Caucasus , and the new revolutionary area opening up round Lake Baikal . |
| 23 | I had none of the schizoid suicide 's delusions about being able to survive my own death . |