Example sentences of "he [vb past] [indef pn] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 2 | Already something of an embarrassment after the publicity surrounding the leak of his report , he became something of a liability when the results of the polygraph tests also leaked out to the press . |
| 3 | In Division One he was subjected to a lot of dubious physical challenge and then , as Palace managers came and went , Vince 's role was constantly changing , so that he became something of an enigma to Palace fans who would one week marvel at his sinuous skills and near-perfect control but then despair at his virtual anonymity the next . |
| 4 | Glancing through a file ( which Harry took to be Heather 's ) with the pursed lips and darting eyes of an auditor perusing an unsatisfactory set of accounts , he conveyed none of the warmth or insight which Harry supposed successful psychoanalysis to require . |
| 5 | In 1901 , as a member of the British congress on tuberculosis , he created something of a sensation . |
| 6 | Indeed he caused something of a turn-up when he named a Swede as one of his three wild card selections in the 12-man side to meet the United States at the Belfry at the end of the month . |
| 7 | Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing . |
| 8 | In doing so , he achieved something of the economic uplift associated with a move to the West , with little of the attendant culture shock , a fact which Glasgow can take as a kick in the groin or a pat on the back . |
| 9 | He developed something of a studio to produce his most popular views . |
| 10 | Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood . |
| 11 | He knew something of the new music , but neither the movement as a whole nor Wagner 's particular achievement within it meant anything special to him . |
| 12 | Starkey said yesterday that he knew nothing of the move and as far as he was concerned he was still on Cacoethes . |
| 13 | His embarrassment about self-disclosure gives the impression , belied by his other books , that he knew nothing of the mystery that grace works by means of human weakness , not by side-stepping it . |
| 14 | Youatt , in 1839 , wrote that the appointment of Vial as Professor was a flagrant and irreparable error , for he knew nothing of the diseases of cattle and their treatment . |
| 15 | But he knew nothing of the Pacific 's tides . |
| 16 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 17 | He knew nothing of the girl Louise Taylor , other than that she had arrived at Buckingham Palace three months earlier and had spent time coaching the prince and the duchess in Russian . |
| 18 | He knew nothing of the other facts and , as he continued relentlessly , Jenna was pleased she had not told him . |
| 19 | But he knew nothing of the practical techniques of modelling and carving . |
| 20 | Major insisted that he knew nothing of the BCCI fraud before June 28 , 1991 , when he was informed by the Bank of England . |
| 21 | In Green 's Tourist 's New Guide 1819 , p.4. he says ‘ The writer was encouraged to the pursuit of painting by Mr. West , but why he knows not , his few sketches were humble , his mind untutored , and he knew none of the requisite theories , but geometry , perspective and architecture ’ . |
| 22 | He would not begin to guess just how much she loved and wanted him , because he felt nothing of the sort for her . |
| 23 | The speed of descent must have cut down the exposure to any residual gas since he felt none of the earlier weirdness as he approached the still sealed engine room door . |
| 24 | She knew , from how he had said , " there is nothing wrong with a comfortable life , " that he felt none of the revulsion she did . |
| 25 | He attended none of the leading schools , nor did he go to university . |
| 26 | He could not fault the appearance of the almost-finished uniform , and he understood nothing of the tailor 's craft . |
| 27 | He did nothing of the sort . |
| 28 | ‘ He did nothing of the kind , he would n't even ask me . ’ |
| 29 | Maggie expected him to look annoyed but he did nothing of the sort . |
| 30 | But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly . |