Example sentences of "have [verb] of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the urgent business she 'd spoken of to Silvia . |
| 2 | No it sounds like one you wo n't have heard of on that , the big old LP 's that me and Nicola , Nicola for a birthday , that erm , school love he used to be er , oh I du n no what was his name ? |
| 3 | Advances in electronic and micro processors enabling fuel to be delivered in the right quantity and at the optimum time in the combustion process now allow an efficiency to be achieved that Dr Rudolf Diesel could never have dreamed of in 1892 . |
| 4 | And any hope Laura might have had of at last having that ‘ long talk ’ which Ross had so faithfully promised her had been dashed on opening the front door of the apartment . |
| 5 | But the question must arise : what was it that Handel and his assistant would have thought of as a large harpsichord in 1750 ? |
| 6 | Then , if you have that necessary possession for any writer , luck , your subconscious will provide you with developments you never could have thought of in cold blood . |
| 7 | a lot of people would think , Ah oh X to the sixth well he must have started of with X to the seventh . |
| 8 | And we bought a Then a , do n't seem to have heard of in a kitchen . |
| 9 | It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals . |
| 10 | Sometimes he wanted to practise , and might well require an hour or so on the putting green , or sometimes he fancied a pint or two of some obscure real ale that he had heard of in the vicinity . |
| 11 | But as we talked the matter over , I thought I heard , in the background , a droning unbodied voice explain that the robbers were young , socially deprived victims of the Thatcherite era of greed and exploitation , not to be blamed for acquiring , by unorthodox means , some of the luxury goods they had heard of from capitalist advertisers who had wickedly aroused their consumerist aspirations . |
| 12 | In or about June 1987 , Mr. Burt met the appellant , whom he said he had heard of from his doing accountancy work for others , and he understood from the appellant , having been shown a curriculum vitae and other documents , that he was an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants , and a graduate or member of the Institute of Marketing . |
| 13 | But that 's the latest thing I 've heard of on the one anyway . |
| 14 | no tail oh dear oh dear but you see then of course and I was still not married but you see I , as I say , then I went to Cambridge and that 's when I met my husband and all his family were so kind to me , er he had erm two sisters living in a flat round the backs , you 've heard of round the backs |
| 15 | ‘ This is what I 've dreamt of for so long … ’ |
| 16 | It 's what I planned for her — what I 've dreamed of for her all these years . |
| 17 | Many people in the black community , people that I had thought of as friends , said to me that I should not have worn the flag that night . |
| 18 | She did n't ask me what my prospects were , or how much I earned , or whether I was sleeping with her daughter — all of which I had thought of as possible avenues of conversation . |
| 19 | It was an idea she had thought of in a vague way yesterday , when she had seen the extent of the gravel ridge that ran beneath the two estates . |
| 20 | Though I had been in Casualty longer than the three weeks Sister had talked of on my first morning , and by Cas. rules was temporarily senior to Daisy Yates , it was Daisy who was sent to join the Accident Nursing Team . |
| 21 | She birdied the tenth , her first , but , after that promising start , the rustiness she had talked of at the start of the tournament began to manifest itself . |
| 22 | Her growing indignation at the way they were discussing her as though she were so much merchandise was abruptly swamped by misery at the thought of giving herself to the man she had dreamed of for years in such a cold-blooded manner . |
| 23 | And even when they reached home and she and John were at last alone together , she could not forgo the homecoming she had dreamed of for so many weeks . |
| 24 | The report estimated that US manufacturers had disposed of at least 10,200 million kg of hazardous substances during 1987 . |
| 25 | He had changed his name , of course , but it had been obvious to Fedorov that he was the same man he had disposed of in the Stadtpark three weeks before . |
| 26 | The three dogs had run of for some distance , before slowing again to a steady lope . |
| 27 | She blamed the example of Harry Paget who had run of with the wife of Wellington 's younger brother . |
| 28 | She hated to be made to think in this way ; but there were some things you had to think of with your mind , when you could n't straightforwardly see them with your hands , to deal with them then and there . |
| 29 | I 'm certain that those of us who heard Mike Save The Children 's overseas director on the Today programme or our field director in Angola on the evening television news yesterday , can have hold nothing but pride , what they had to say of Save The Children 's work in that country , a country described as the heart of darkness a country with the world 's worse infant mortality rate . |
| 30 | In a letter to Minnie , who seemed the natural recipient of the account she wished to give , she described how — when first she was taken ill Minnie , which I expect you have heard of from Miss Arabel , who I dare say was given a terrible fright as were we all , many despaired of her life but I did not and I am pleased to say my faith was justified . |