Example sentences of "he [verb] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | What did he think of the game ? |
| 3 | Did he think of the gesture a little too late ? |
| 4 | ‘ But had n't he heard of the disappearance ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What did he make of the threat from Black Africa ? |
| 7 | This suggests that he thinks of the impression as being something that could have a name of its own . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | what he thinks of the match has n't he ? |
| 11 | He read of the death of the Pakistani nuclear scientist last seen in the company of … no leads … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Elsewhere he writes of the need to oppose those who see politics as a science , which would let Reason transcend the political . |
| 14 | ‘ I would n't have given odds on it lasting ten minutes , ’ he says of the programme 's early days . |
| 15 | Shortly after eleven she heard the doorbell ring , then he groaning of the lift and a soft clatter as the grille door closed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His tone suggested that he disapproved of the notion . ’ |
| 21 | Wulfstan was not interested in recording this , presumably because as he thought that a king should levy only light taxes he disapproved of the procedure . |
| 22 | Kingsley Amis , similarly , once remarked on television how much he disapproved of the book — ‘ Nobs ’ appeal , ’ he remarked crushingly , ‘ the appeal of nobs , ’ though he generously added that he often reread it . |
| 23 | In 1915 he learnt of a doctor 's practice going for sale at Collier 's Forge , near Stourbridge in the Midlands . |
| 24 | Seven hours after he learnt of the accident , ‘ it was already clear to me how dreadful the consequences were . ’ |
| 25 | A Sandringham insider said : ‘ He learnt of the wedding very late because arrangements were kept secret . ’ |
| 26 | He boasted of the fact that in Egypt he had caught a disease of love from some five-sou courtesan . |
| 27 | Afterwards , Ali , 19 , from Luton , Bedfordshire , said he approved of the sheikh 's message . |
| 28 | As he never questioned the basic principles of Roman expansion , we should not waste our time in trying to decide whether or not he approved of the destruction of Carthage . |
| 29 | He approved of the burning of Anabaptists . |
| 30 | ’ Lewis was especially grateful that Coghill was so appreciative of Dymer 's ‘ spiritual experiences ’ ; and in particular that he approved of the theme of ‘ redemption by parricide ’ which Lewis feared ‘ would seem simply preposterous and shocking ’ . |